Donald Trump’s piggish, savage behavior hits new low

One question I m often inquired is How can you tell Donald Trump has gotten worse since his first presidential administration Well in the years of covering presidents not one of them ever called a reporter piggy before Not even Donald Trump Not until this week He explained Quiet piggy mere inches from the face of a female journalist in a gaggle of reporters on Air Force One No other reporter addressed this insult Members of the traveling press pool just went on asking questions as if this were normal acceptable behavior Had I been there I would have sought him point blank Sir do you think that s a dignified response from the president of the United States to call a reporter a piggy Of subject particular would say this is why I m not right now a member of the traveling press pool But someone necessities to be blunt with the president I happily volunteer to do so Trump has been abusive rude petulant unprofessional and undignified He has lied to and threatened us in the press nearly every time he sees us This week just like every other week during this term we have seen him at a new low Trump has been abusive rude petulant unprofessional and undignified He has lied to and threatened us in the press nearly every time he sees us This week just like every other week during this term we have seen him at a new low That s another reason I know he has gotten worse Each week is worse When his niece Mary Trump declared There is no worst with Donald each day is worse she was quoting from the Donny Bible This week s low-water mark revealed Trump not only has no dignity decency honor or sense but when he called a reporter piggy it was so childlike as to be laughable How can you even satirize his actions No adult treats any other adult that way unless they ve lost their mental faculties or never had them Instead of acting like an adult he acted like a child sticking out his tongue Another fresh spectacle points out how he is getting worse His meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman who visited the Oval Office Tuesday As they sat on chairs with other administration executives gathered on sofas surrounded by reporters ABC s Mary Bruce petitioned Trump a question about bin Salman s involvement in the death of Washington Post reporter Jamal Khashoggi and then she inquired him about the ongoing Jeffrey Epstein disgrace Bruce did her duty in asking questions of both men and she did it professionally Trump responded by calling her fake news and disclosed the challenge wasn t the questions she appealed but the way she solicited them Tough If you can call a reporter piggy then you can take a hard question that you don t like If you can t then how in the hell can you handle tough foreign leaders Trump lashed out angrily and again no one followed up Bruce s question or admonished the president for acting like a petulant child The crown prince shifted uncomfortably in his chair at the question about Khashoggi He kneaded his hands He grinned He nodded and he glared at Bruce Specific mentioned bin Salman looked nervous But I ve seen that look in pro-fighters football players and serious gangsters He wasn t nervous He was trying to hide how angry he was If Bruce had appealed that question in Saudi Arabia chances are good we would never see her again Related Trump absolves MBS of Khashoggi killing and shames America That fact alone emboldened Trump to dress her down and threaten her as he did He even called her insubordinate Bruce isn t his subordinate She doesn t work for him She is a member of the populace Trump is a temp worker voted into office by the populace If anyone was insubordinate it was President Trump He is a general servant and as such is required to serve the constituents You don t admonish the American society while praising a foreign prince especially not one who is an international pariah with a well-known violent nature Trump didn t challenge bin Salman for one simple reason The president would love to be able to get away with the very behavior the crown prince does With bin Salman seated next to him Trump felt the courage to lean into his performance a bit He playfully slapped at him and they smiled and giggled like the best of friends Donald Trump feels the same way about dissidents that Mohammed bin Salman feels Trump s envy is that he can t at least openly go kill his critics But he s getting godd n close former Trump National Precaution expert and critic Miles Taylor announced It s scary to watch comedian Dave Chapelle announced to laughter during Trump s first administration Taylor thinks it s not only scary to watch but he also believes it tells a larger story about Trump I d say the old maxim is true What do your friends look like Look in a mirror What they look like is you he commented So if the president of the United States says our friends are people like Vladimir Putin of Russia and Mohammed bin Salman in Saudi Arabia then you need to see very clearly he wants to be like them Don t take anyone s word for it Listen to Trump himself He s a great gentleman the president noted about bin Salman while speaking before the U S -Saudi Financing Forum on Wednesday He then went on to praise Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo an another authoritarian So thank you Mary Bruce for asking what we all should ask and what we should never stop asking about no matter the personal consequences This is as serious as it gets In his Oval Office remarks Trump described Jamal Khashoggi as extremely controversial just because the late journalist advocated for civil rights reforms in his native Saudi Arabia that were promised to the country s citizens by its leaders What s so controversial about that Not a damn thing Trump also mentioned of Khashoggi A lot of people didn t like that gentleman you re talking about Who didn t like him The elite who felt threatened by his questions Certainly not the common man Want more sharp takes on politics Sign up for our free newsletter Standing Room Only written by Amanda Marcotte now also a weekly show on YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts Trump reported things happen when describing Khashoggi s cold-hearted murder dismemberment and incineration Despite the fact that the CIA during his first administration concluded that bin Salman orchestrated the killing Trump assured us that wasn t the episode He knew nothing Trump commented flatly Things happen Just two words That s all it took for Donald Trump to effectively dismiss what is seemingly the most of infamous journalist killing of the last decade and in so doing plumbed a new low in his contempt for journalists for journalism and for the truth declared Jodie Ginsberg chief executive of the Committee to Protect Journalists According to Taylor Trump missed a great opportunity to challenge bin Salman and to bring Saudi Arabia into the st century The crown prince he mentioned is a very young guy who s likely to be in power for plenty of multiple decades A smart president a smart tactician would see that there is an opportunity to stand up for human rights to stand up for Western values and to say to Saudi Arabia if you want to be taken seriously in the world you have to rehabilitate from this egregious crime and you re going to have to do it through us We re the most of powerful nation in the world You ve just violated these rights that we ve spent our existence for years as a country defending Doing so Taylor noted would allow the U S to have the Saudis over a barrel literally and figuratively It would have given us the thing Donald Trump maintains to be good at getting leverage But he didn t do that He took the easy way out because he thought that was better for him personally Trump also channeled bin Salman when he reacted to a group of military veterans who serve in Congress This week they distributed a PSA reminding military and intelligence personnel that they must refuse to follow any illegal orders The president on Truth Social accused the lawmakers of engaging in seditious behavior punishable by DEATH He then reposted comments calling them traitors and saying they should be jailed or hanged Trump is unraveling His failures are mounting and frightening the rest of the world giving our closest allies cause for concern Trump is unraveling His failures are mounting and frightening the rest of the world giving our closest allies cause for concern Jim Richards a broadcaster on News Talk in Toronto commented that Canada may be forced to reassess its relationship with the United States America isn t viewed the way it was before under Bush Reagan or Biden as this beacon to the rest of the world Now it s like who is going to step up Is it the EU What has happened to America Trump did He is the first president to take a personal hand in prosecuting his enemies he cares little about due process or the rule of law Students of history will note that one of the reasons why the American colonies became the United States was because colonists got tired of King George III arbitrarily prosecuting those who disagreed with him Speaking of which the United Kingdom is also reassessing its relationship with Trump s America The world is safer when our closest friends are democracies Taylor mentioned And our best friend our partner in what we call the special relationship did something unprecedented last week They stopped sharing intelligence with the United States because they think what we re doing in the Caribbean bombing drug boats is illegal On Thursday during her weekly briefing White House Pep Secretary Karoline Leavitt was requested about a few of these current events She didn t stay long enough to address them all But she did talk about Trump calling a female reporter piggy Look the president is very frank and honest she disclosed It is one of the various reasons he was re-elected He gets frustrated when you all lie about him and spread fake news about him We need your help to stay independent Subscribe in the present day to assistance Brian Karem s commentary Leavitt never addressed the inherent misogyny of Trump s comment and she never discussed the mountain of lies we have to correct from him on a daily basis including but not limited to gas and egg prices the business sector immigration the ballot and his insists of a landslide triumph Her summation in fact ended with a lie Once again Leavitt claimed Trump is the greater part transparent president in history She is vile several reporters explained me after the press briefing Of class another announced she was masterful at spin I ve never seen a more pathetic briefing Leavitt wouldn t even patronage another woman being harassed by a man in a position of power So what do we have left A president who continues to disrupt the entire world while journalists are finding it increasingly tough to accurately record the fact that Trump is getting worse The world sees this and so do his political opponents After the president threatened Democratic members of Congress House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries Minority Whip Katherine Clark and Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar disclosed an unprecedented joint message unequivocally condemn ing Donald Trump s disgusting and dangerous death threats We have been in contact with the House Sergeant at Arms and the United States Capitol Police to ensure the safety of these members and their families I have seen a limited things covering the White House in the last years But until this week I d never seen a president call one female reporter a piggy tell another she s insubordinate and appear to threaten members of Congress with execution Any one of those are unprecedented occurrences We got three of them in one week courtesy of Donald Trump Trump doesn t care There s every indication that he is incapable of any such empathy He wants to be a dictator like bin Salman who radiates anger and power with the slickness of a grifter You can see it in his eyes Trump s eyes are empty They are fearful and often angry He once aspired to be like bin Salman Now he s just an angry old man who calls reporters piggy Read more about this topic How Trump s MRI spurred the Epstein vote Donald Trump s America First movement is fracturing Quit sane-washing Donald Trump The post Donald Trump s piggish savage behavior hits new low appeared first on Salon com