Quiet, piggy.” It’s the sort of crass insult that you might hear yelled in the school playground – and certainly not what you’d expect a president to hiss at a journalist (accompanied with a finger point, no less) during a press call on Air Force One. But this disturbing incident, which saw Donald Trump berate Bloomberg reporter Catherine Lucey, is just the latest grim example of the POTUS’s well-documented woman problem.
From that Access Hollywood tape, when a pre-politics Trump notoriously alluded to “grabbing” women “by the pussy”, to his slights on “nasty woman” Hillary Clinton, to calling actor Stormy Daniels “horseface”, his history of insulting women is long and depressing. Even when he’s not going out of his way to offend, his tone can seem, well, more than a little problematic. “I just like to watch her talk,” he said in one recent press conference encounter with another female journalist, before condescendingly telling her she’d done a “good job” and addressing her as “darling”. His administration’s track record on women’s rights (or the rolling back of said rights) speaks volumes on this count, too.
