Trump Calls Female Reporter ‘Ugly, Both Inside and Out’ — Then the White House Hands In Bizarre ‘Transparency’ Defense

Washington, D.C. – President Donald Trump unleashed a personal attack on New York Times White House correspondent Katie Rogers Wednesday morning, calling her a “third rate reporter who is ugly, both inside and out” in a Truth Social rant against a story she co-wrote suggesting his age is affecting his presidency.

The outburst, posted at 9:47 a.m., has drawn swift condemnation as Trump’s latest salvo against female journalists, coming just two weeks after he pointed in Bloomberg’s Catherine Lucey’s face and snapped “Quiet, piggy!” during an Air Force One gaggle.

The November 26 Times piece, co-authored by Rogers and Dylan Freedman, examined Trump’s visible signs of fatigue as a 79-year-old president, noting fewer domestic trips, longer midday breaks, and a reliance on teleprompters for previously extemporaneous remarks.

The piece referenced moments like Trump appearing to doze during a November 6 Oval Office announcement (the White House called it “a brief rest”) and hand bruises (attributed to “handshaking” by Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt).

Trump’s post read, “The Creeps at the Failing New York Times are at it again. To do this requires a lot of Work and Energy, and I have never worked so hard in my life. Yet despite all of this the Radical Left Lunatics in the soon to fold New York Times did a hit piece on me that I am perhaps losing my Energy, despite facts that show the exact opposite. They know this is wrong, as is almost every thing that they write about me, including election results, ALL PURPOSELY NEGATIVE.”

“The writer of the story, Katie Rogers, who is assigned to write only bad things about me, is a third rate reporter who is ugly, both inside and out.”

“The New York Times is a cheap ‘RAG,’ truly an ‘ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE.’ With a PERFECT PHYSICAL EXAM AND A COMPREHENSIVE COGNITIVE TEST (“That was aced”) JUST RECENTLY TAKEN, it certainly is not now! GOD BLESS AMERICA & MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!”

White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson defended the president in a statement to People Magazine, “President Trump has never been politically correct, never holds back, and in large part, the American people re-elected him for his transparency. This has nothing to do with gender; it has everything to do with the fact that the President’s and the public’s trust in the media is at all-time lows.”

The “Piggy” Precedent and Pattern of Attacks

Trump’s Rogers rant follows his November 14 “Quiet, Quiet piggy!” outburst at Bloomberg’s Catherine Lucey during an Air Force One gaggle on Epstein files.

Leavitt also defended the president stating, “Look, the president is very frank and honest with everyone in this room. You’ve all seen it yourselves. You’ve all experienced it yourselves. And I think it’s one of the many reasons the American people reelected this president, because of his frankness.”

“He calls out fake news when he sees it. He gets frustrated with reporters when you lie about him, when you spread fake news about him and his administration. And so I think the president being frank and open and honest to your faces, rather than hiding behind your backs, is frankly a lot more respectful than what you saw in the last administration, where you had a president who would lie to your face and then didn’t speak to you for weeks,” she added.

“I think everyone in this room should appreciate the frankness and the openness that you get from President Trump on a near-daily basis,” she concluded.

Leavitt defended it as being “frank,” but the White House Correspondents’ Association called it “escalatory.”

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It echoes Trump’s 2016 attacks on former Miss Universe Alicia Machado, 19 at the time, whom he called “Miss Piggy” and “Miss Housekeeping” after she gained weight.

Machado recalled, “He’d yell at me all the time. He’d tell me, ‘You look ugly,’ or ‘You look fat.’ Sometimes he’d ‘play’ with me and say: ‘Hello, Miss Piggy,’ ‘Hello, Miss Housekeeping.’”