Trump is going through a string of losses: Democrats dominating in off-year elections, having to reverse course on the Epstein files, Republicans refusing to get rid of the filibuster to end the shutdown, a faltering economy. There’s a possibility that he’s losing his air of impenetrability, and his grip on the right could maybe, just maybe, be loosening.

The anger he displayed in the clip could be a sign of someone on the back foot, overreacting to a question Bloomberg correspondent Catherine Lucey was asking about why Trump was fighting against releasing the Epstein files “if there’s nothing incriminating in the files”. The files related to the child sexual abuser released so far by Congress show that Epstein communicated regularly, and derogatorily, about women with a host of prominent friends.

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[–] 145 points 11 months ago (4 children)

It always surprises me what people think is the final straw. He's making his own personal army, kidnapping people off the streets, he's taxing everyone, he's taking bribes like it's hamberders, he's lying about absolutely everything, he's demolishing the American government, he's raping people, always revolving around whether this involves children, which seems more and more likely... But him calling a reporter a bad name is surely what's going to fell him.

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  • [–] 79 points 11 months ago*

    There's also the estimated 600,000 people killed by his withdrawal of aid so far, which is projected to rise to 22 million dead. He has killed more people than Idi Amin and is on his way to matching the most deadly dictators in history, killing almost as many as a world war. Add in the dead from his COVID policies in his first term and immigration policies in the second term and he's one of the deadliest leaders ever.

    https://www.salon.com/2025/11/19/trumps-greatest-crime-is-practically-invisible/

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  • [–] 36 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    Most people haven't been kidnapped and kept in a cage. Everyone remembers how a personal insult has made them feel, or the shame of standing by and doing nothing when someone else was bullied near them.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago

    A couple of weeks ago, they were replying "your mom did" when reporters asked who had suggested Budapest as a good city to meet Putin. They're morons, and this is just going to be another moronic thing they did that no one remembers in a week. Absolutely nothing they say will ever be enough to fell them.

    I always thought that Americans would react when their government would start to turn all of the tools and tactics they developed torturing brown people inwards towards the US population. However, I had not accounted for white America only considering white Americans to be real Americans. So as long as the ones suffering are non white Americans, it seems to be fine. Let's see if that changes once the tactics start targeting white people as they inevitably will.

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  • [–] 60 points 11 months ago

    Unforgivable

    I've been there for a long, long time.

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  • [–] 44 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    I grew up in the 70s and 80s when it was acceptable for parents to physically beat their children, and when when I saw this clip of Trump it shocked me because the look on his face, the finger pointing, and the sound of his voice was exactly how my father looked and sounded right before he would take off his belt to beat us with it. I can't be the only one who has these memories.

    Also using the word "piggy" is revealing of how he sees people. Pigs are associated with slaughter and murder in nearly all of our stories. We kill and eat pigs. The upper classes see the rest of us as pigs to harvest and slaughter and consume. In their eyes how dare a lowly pig meant for their dinner plates question them and talk back to them. What Trump did and said revealed all this horror.

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  • [–] 35 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    I agree. But also piggy usually is “fat, ugly” too when referencing a woman.

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  • [–] 11 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Of course you're right, and I would argue that calling a woman a "fat, ugly pig" stems from the associations I point out.

    The pig insult is so common, I think we're all trying to understand why such a common and known insult would be so much more shocking to us. It isn't just because it comes from a sitting US president. Trump is known for his viscous insults and we've all heard them.

    Saying, "quiet, piggy" was a mask slip more revealing than many of us can even consciously comprehend.

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    [–] 118 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    "quiet piggy" is unacceptable, but the country was totally chill with "grab her by the pussy," or mocking a disabled reporter.

    Don't get me wrong, I'm glad America seems to be waking up, but c'mon. If this bothers you, but the previous incidents didn't, maybe you should be re-evaluating your opinions.

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  • [–] 48 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    The difference is all the MAGAts are starting to be inconvenienced by Trumps America. They have no problem violently deporting people, but god forbid something relatively minor by comparison affects their life.

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago

    That's true, but I also think there is a stark difference between a low quality 'off the record' recording and standing at the official podium taking questions from vetted journalists to a live feed on every news network.

    Anyone paying the slightest bit of attention has known he is, at best, an odious man-child for years. But a lot of people actively try to avoid paying attention because they've been trained that it's "just politics" instead of the infrastructure that impacts every aspect of their lives.

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    [–] 62 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    I can't figure out the reason why he chose "piggy" as the insult. The reporter is quite thin, and not loud or obnoxious. Projecting, maybe?

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  • [–] 16 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    No, I think his mind is perpetually stuck in the late 70's and 80's. Right around the time when the Muppet Show was big. So he's really saying she is annoying like Miss Piggy.

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  • [–] 60 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    trump said "Quiet, piggy" and angrily poked his tiny rapist finger at her. And that's when she flicked out the blade hidden in her pen and stabbed him in the fucking face.

    She went on to be a two-and-a-half term president, noted mainly for decimating the oil industry and saving the earth.

    See my onlyfans for more fantasy writing featuring no images and no sex at all.

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  • [–] 28 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Don’t worry everyone. I’m sure no one will do anything real soon. Just another page of bullshit the pedophile gets away with for some odd reason.

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  • [–] 28 points 11 months ago

    The irony of a fat piece of shit who pisses himself calling someone else "piggy"

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  • [–] 24 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    I really wish the reporter had the balls to either tell him to go fuck himself, or retorted "I know you are but what am I?" Just like children do, because that's what Trump is. An 80 year old child with a fragile, projecting ego

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Same. No way I could let that slide. I'm almost more upset that no one else in that room had the dignity to stand up on her behalf. At a certain point, the job can get fucked in favor of principals. There's some things you don't compromise on or justify your way out of.

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  • [–] 23 points 11 months ago* (4 children)

    The walls are closing in. This is the beginning of the end. It's the worst thing he's ever done.... At that exact moment.

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  • [–] 22 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Bold move when 3/4 of your base is overweight.

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  • [–] 19 points 11 months ago

    Would have been amazing if the reporter had said what we all are thinking. "No, you fucking lardass."

    People should start pushing up their nose when they see fat boy. Maybe making hog noises.

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  • [–] 15 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    A person with honour and civility would have stood up for her. Everyone is too worried about their job money.

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  • [–] 13 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Breaking news: Trump hates women.

    Stop with the theatrics and release the files you misogynist fuck face. We know that you don't care if everybody knows you're a pig.

    You can remind us all what a piece of shit you are after you let everybody see the stuff you don't want them to think about you.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    Rubbish, he loves women...he loves them so much that even if these women don't want him to touch them he would never listen and would grab and 'forcefully love' them anyways.

    Oh, and he realllllyyuy loves children. You'd be surprised at what he would do to be able to be near kiddies. Some people are saying that he even used to traffic the little ones to an island just so he could 'love' them whenever he wanted to...

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  • [–] 24 points 11 months ago

    He bragged about "grabbing them by the pussy" and got elected. This scandal isn't even going to move the needle.

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  • [–] 11 points 11 months ago*

    I think it's the principle that he's a fat, bald, smelly failure slinging lukewarm insults at people better than himself that people are tired of. If someone called him out on camera, even in tepid, plain insults that are objectively provable, he might just expire from the shift in blood pressure.

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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago

    For me personally it wasn't the name calling that irked me. Trump is a crass piece of shit and honestly I expect nothing less from his behavior. What's really irritating me is him and all the other Maga circus freaks aggressivly pointing their fingers in people's faces. It's such a small, "white man" form of micro aggression that aims to make the target feel inferior. And for some fucking reason it works psychologically because whenever I see one of them do it I immediately want to start throwing hands.

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Meh. The maga husbands will keep voting for him, because dumb, and the maga wives will follow their husbands, because conservative values and all that.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago

    The one who looks like, acts like, and smells like a piggy is calling the reporter a piggy.... Ironic!

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    “Quiet piggy! Now leave me alone while I eat my filet o’ fish, quarter pounder, Big Mac and fries.”

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago

    It's just his fat little goblin 3rd grader mentality bubbling to the surface.

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    [–] 19 points 11 months ago

    Sure. I'll believe that when I see something actually being done about it.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    It’s one of the rare moments where the mask slips and everyone can clearly see he’s just a pathetic old man

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    Why? Fucking WHY?!?!

    This fucker rapes children, and when he's not raping children, he's giving away bombs to drop on children. But this? THIS is where we draw the line?

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