Trump insults another female reporter

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President Donald Trump insulted a female reporter’s appearance on Wednesday when he called The New York Times’ Katie Rogers “ugly,” marking the third time in recent weeks that the president has criticized a female reporter in personal terms.

In a post on Truth Social, the president called Rogers, “a third rate reporter who is ugly, both inside and out,” one day after Rogers and a male New York Times data reporter co-authored a piece saying there were signs of Trump aging in office. In the post, Trump also disputed the accuracy of the story, writing, “They know this is wrong.”

Trump did not mention the other reporter in his post and called the Times a “cheap ‘rag’” and “an ‘enemy of the people.”

A spokesperson for The New York Times stood by Rogers and her reporting, telling NBC News on Wednesday, “The Times’ reporting is accurate and built on first-hand reporting of the facts. Name-calling and personal insults don’t change that, nor will our journalists hesitate to cover this administration in the face of intimidation tactics like this.”

That Truth Social post came over a week after the president criticized ABC News reporter Mary Bruce in the Oval Office after she asked him a question about the Jeffrey Epstein files during a meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

“You know, it’s not the question that I mind. It’s your attitude. I think you are a terrible reporter,” Trump told Bruce, adding later that he thinks she’s a “terrible person” and telling Bruce that ABC is a “crappy company.”

Earlier in the meeting, Bruce had asked the president and the Saudi crown prince about the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, which U.S. intelligence in 2021 found was orchestrated by the crown prince and his associates. “He knew nothing about it and we can leave it at that,” Trump responded.

He chided Bruce: “You don’t have to embarrass our guests by asking a question like that.”

Just days before that, Trump responded to another question about Epstein on Air Force One from Bloomberg reporter Catherine Lucey by telling her: “Quiet, piggy.”

Asked about that comment last week, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that Trump is “frank and open and honest” and that’s what voters like about him.

“The president is very frank and honest with everyone in this room. You’ve all seen it yourself. You’ve all experienced it yourselves. And I think it’s one of the many reasons that the American people re-elected this president, because of his frankness,” Leavitt told reporters. “And 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.”