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Margaret Sullivan

Trump keeps insulting female journalists. It’s time for the press to stop tolerating it

trump sits for an interview with kristen welker
‘It’s past time that journalists and their bosses decide that this is unacceptable.’ Photograph: NBC/Adam Bettcher/Getty Images

For many years now, Donald Trump has been saying awful things to – or about – the female media figures who have the nerve to ask him questions and challenge his falsehoods.

“Quiet, Piggy,” he ordered a Bloomberg reporter, Catherine Lucey, last year in a press gaggle when she pushed him about the release of the Epstein files.

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