“Shut up, piggy”.

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Trump told a female reporter this. How come this behaviour is accepted but if it was former president Obama, people would have lost their mind. Obama had to practically be ‘perfect’. When Obama wore a tan suit, it was such a huge deal.

Racism is a sick illness.

I wouldn't say it's racism. The comment is par for the course for trump, but obama didn't behave in this manner so it would have been far more shocking for him to say.

People have to cool their hatred and to stop "misinterpreting" the truth.

Probably the fact that everyone is shit scared of being sued by him as he's a billionaire. Extremely wealthy people shouldn't be allowed to run for presidency or prime minister here. The whole world is corrupt as fuck. It makes me sick to the stomach💩I wonder when we'll get to see these Epstein files...........

If Trump can run a third time, then so can Obama. Simplistic I know, but then again T might just declare himself as President and what reaction would there be to that?. Scary times, but I really hope that there will be an uprising if that happens. Wishful thinking maybe.

I'm not a political nerd, I just follow it at a high level without getting into the deep analyses. However I think Trump is getting away with it because the Republicans in Congress and the Senate and Red States refuse to criticise him openly, with some rare exceptions and look what happened there - MTG for example.

I wonder if the mid terms will change the flavour of things if the Dems wipe the boards. I don't know, as I said I'm a total amateur about all this.

What's the truth? And what's the "misinterpretation"?

But he’s not being asked to resign is he? The White House is accepting it. Media condemnation doesn’t matter a fig if those in power are not questioning whether he’s fit to continue in power.

OP is saying that if Obama had done it he would have been called out on it because a black man as a president cannot put a foot wrong. He has to be completely perfect, above and beyond what a white president would get away with.

However, I would say this has gone far beyond just race as to be honest, ANY other president bar Trump would’ve been ousted a long time ago. Trump is a dictator no one dares to question

Emily Maitlis’s comment nailed it. ‘He has no argument, so he resorts to abuse.’ Or words to that effect.

Well I think the president of the United States calling a journalist Piggy is absolutely purple, juvenile behaviour. What does it matter that the journalist is from a paper which backs different politics?
As for quiet vs shut up, neither is acceptable in a reply to any question from a journalist to a politician, let alone one about Trump's ties to Epstein which that is absolutely acceptable to keep asking about.

trump thinks he is an actual god and has the right to say anything to anyone
hes a prick of the first order and should be shut up by someone else
a very dangerous man indeed

The most shocking thing is that NONE of the other journalists said a thing.
I’d just been teaching my class about being an Upstander, not a Bystander, and I was horrified.

Good point.

He has a wife. He has daughters. He has grand daughters. What must they think of him,

If a British PM behaved like that to a journalist - or excluded any outlets that criticised him - the rest of the lobby would walk out in solidarity.

His wife and daughters publicly support him so they think it is fine. I’d say they think the same way. I think his granddaughters are a bit young to have come to a full realization of who their grandfather is.

I know his niece Mary thinks he’s a horrible human being. A bully and a coward who tries to wrestle the spotlight whenever he can, and tells ridiculous meandering stories no one is interested in. Yet dangerous - only because people allow him to be so. A creation of his father.

One of his granddaughters is already using the Trump brand for her golfing or some other kind of budding career.

Yup.

Remember when she harassed David Hoog, a school shooting survivor in the street?

She said of him, quoting CNN, " “He’s a coward,” Greene says at the end of the video as Hogg walks away, claiming his activism was funded by billionaire philanthropist George Soros, who is often the subject of far-right conspiracy theories, and other liberals. “He can’t say one word because he can’t defend his stance.”

And now she claims she is a victim, of the exact same gun mad group she was cheerleader for.

Video surfaces of Marjorie Taylor Greene confronting Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg with baseless claims | CNN Politics

Obama was on that list quite a lot though wasn’t he.

But this is an example of misogyny not racism.

Trump is a pig of the first order -

I don’t think we know yet, do we? But if he is, and he raped girls/women, then he should go to prison.
What’s that got to do with Trump being a rude misogynist?

What list?

If you mean Epstein files, here's a fact check for you

https://toolbox.google.com/factcheck/explorer/search/obama%20epstein;hl=en

No.

No Obama wasn’t on the list. But I think it’s a a good example of bots pushing false information to destabilise government.

Also, see ‘pizzagate’ and the pizza restaurant basement child abuse conspiracy is another example of a completely fictitious rumour flooding the MAGA heavy sites of the internet.

Pizzagate. It’s an old article but still interesting reading

X has disclosed the locations of their Maga crowd, bot central.