11/20/2025
Mary Bruce should be awarded for her bravery for asking the questions we all know are critical!
The asking Trump the hardest questions deserve our loudest . To every not backing down: we see you, we support you, and we've got your back. Thank you, Catherine Lucey and Mary Bruce, for showing the world what real looks like.
There's something deeply pathetic about watching a 79-year-old president calling female reporters names like a petulant child who didn't get his way. But that's exactly what's happening -- and it's because women journalists have been relentless in holding Trump accountable, asking the questions that expose his lies and contradictions. His increasingly desperate attacks aren't signs of strength; they're admissions of weakness. As veteran White House correspondent April Ryan observed, "The president of the United States is supposed to be the moral leader, the leader of the country, and he's acting like some thug on the street. It's one thing for his minions to say that, but for him to call a woman that?"
In just the past week alone, Donald Trump wagged his finger in the face of Bloomberg's Catherine Lucey aboard Air Force One and barked "Quiet, quiet piggy" when she pressed him about the Epstein files, and then called ABC News' Mary Bruce a "terrible reporter" and threatened to revoke her network's broadcast license after she asked tough questions in the Oval Office about conflict of interest related to his family's business dealings with Saudi Arabia and the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Trump even accused Bruce of asking an "insubordinate" question -- apparently unable to grasp that real journalists don't work for him and aren't supposed to show the same groveling obedience as the lackeys he surrounds himself with.
Trump's hostility toward female reporters is extensive and well-documented. He told CNN's Abby Phillip her question was "stupid," dismissed ABC's Cecilia Vega by saying "I know you're not thinking. You never do," and called NBC's Katy Tur "little Katy" and a "third-rate reporter" from rally stages. In November 2018 alone, he attacked three Black women journalists in three days -- calling one "stupid," another a "loser" who doesn't know "what the hell she's doing," and accusing a third of asking a "racist question." He called CNN's Kaitlan Collins a "nasty person" and attacked former Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly, suggesting she had "blood coming out of her wherever" after she questioned him about his treatment of women.
His degrading insults are no accident. They represent a calculated pattern of gendered attacks designed to intimidate, demean, and ultimately silence women journalists who dare to ask challenging questions. As Elisa Lees Muñoz, executive director of the International Women's Media Foundation, told the Guardian, "President Trump's targeting of women journalists is nothing new. His appearance-based insults are gendered attacks meant to shut women journalists up. While name-calling may seem harmless, coming from the head of our government, it often sets in motion a torrent of abuse towards the journalist, which not only impacts her ability to work, but also sends a chilling message to other women journalists who are confronting him with hard-hitting questions."
Thanks to Rep. Melanie Stansbury for sharing this image!
From: A mighty girl
