President Trump has a long history of insulting women, whether they are journalists, politicians or actresses, when questioned or confronted by them.
Mexico City, November 20 (However).– The President of the United States (EU), Donald Trumphas once again been placed at the center of controversy. To your regulars explosive attitudes In recent days, the insults contra a female reporter who questioned it. It is not the first time: the Republican magnate has a long history of verbal attacks against journalists, politicians, actresses and all those who have disputed.
The last case of this type occurred in recent days, when Trump insulted the correspondent of Bloomberg in the White House, Catherine Lucey, who questioned him about the opening of the Epstein case files. “Shut up, shut up, little pig!” the Republican attacked before boarding Air Force One, when Lucey asked him if there is nothing incriminating against him in said files. The president’s verbal attack occurred last Friday, but began to go viral in the last hours of last Tuesday.
This is not the first time Trump has used that insult against a woman. In the 2016 presidential debates, Hillary Clinton, the Democratic candidate, revealed that the Republican magnate had called the Venezuelan Miss Universe Alicia Machado “Miss Piggy.” “He called her ‘Miss Domestic Worker’ because of her Latin origin,” denounced the former senator and former first lady.
Trump did not reject the accusations. One day after that debate, he said in an interview in Fox News that Machado “gained a lot of weight”, justifying his insult. In the same campaign, he accepted that he had called the comedian and actress Rosie O’Donnell a “piggy”, trying to evade a question from Megyn Kelly, then a critic and today one of his defenders, regarding Trump’s taste for insulting women.
In 2018, in his first term as President of the United States, Trump insulted porn actress Stormy Daniels: he called her “horse face.” The woman had the last laugh, since last January Trump was convicted in the bribery case of Stephanie Clifford, the actress’s real name. He is the first American president to win elections and govern a second term despite having been convicted of that crime.
Last Tuesday, Trump exploded against another female journalist, Mary Bruce, the network’s correspondent. ABC. “It’s not the question, it’s your attitude,” the American President told him in the Oval Office in front of the rest of the press and accompanied by the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohamed Bin Salman.
“I think you are a horrible reporter. It’s the way you ask. You start with a man who is very respected, you ask him something horrible, insubordinate, a terrible question. You could even ask in a nice way. You are a terrible person and a terrible reporter,” Trump reiterated.
You can go to the Oval Office to make a puny Trump headline against your country or risk your neck, like Mary Bruce, and ask about Jamal Khashoggi in front of his murderer. They call all this journalism.
Khashoggi was dismembered for doing what Bruce has done. pic.twitter.com/dQ2Baapn1P
— Pedro Vallín (@pvallin) November 18, 2025
Last October those the same, but with a male reporter: John Lyons, from the Australian network ABC. The reporter questioned Trump’s business dealings while he was governing the United States and the President responded: “Right now you are doing a lot of damage to your country. I will tell your leader about you.” [Primer Ministro] when he comes,” he told him. When the correspondent insisted, Trump passed the question to an American reporter “so that you can put on a more cordial tone” and at the Australian’s insistence he blurted out a “shut up!”
Trump has even insulted one of his victims. “She’s crazy,” he said in 2023 about the writer E. Jean Carroll, who accused the President in 2019 of rape that occurred in the mid-nineties, and the court found him guilty and forced him to pay the woman $83.3 million. The magnate claims that it is a “made-up story” and even reversed the accusation, saying: “What kind of woman would meet a man and take him to a dressing room?”, in reference to the writer’s testimony of abuse.
The high profile does not stop Trump from insulting women. Actress Meryl Streep, praised as one of the best in Hollywood history. She is one of the most overrated actresses in Hollywood,” the magnate attacked in 2017, after a criticism from Streep, without naming him, at the Golden Globes that year. “She is a lackey of Hillary [Clinton] who lost big [las elecciones]”, complete.
Trump against his political opponents
President Trump has left no box unfilled in his authoritarian advance. He has also insulted his political rivals: He called Hillary Clinton, who competed with him for the Presidency in 2016, “a disgusting woman.”
He described Nancy Pelosi, who headed the House of Representatives and was Trump’s main opposition in his first term, as a “unhinged, nervous” woman. When the legislator announced her retirement a few days ago, the Republican described her as an “evil woman”: “I’m glad she’s retiring.”
He called Kamala Harris, his rival in the 2024 presidential election, “lazy,” a racist insult, since it is often said without evidence and with prejudice that African Americans are generally “lazy.” During the campaign, she said she was “crazy” and “can’t say two sentences together.” He also called her “stupid” and questioned at one point whether she was under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
He described Democratic legislator Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as a woman “with low IQ,” as he had already done with Harris, both women of color.
Trump against the press
But Trump’s insults against journalists, especially female reporters, go further: since his return to the White House, the Republican magnate has intensified his war against the media and has even extended it against comedians and late-night show hosts.
In July, three days after Stephen Colbert spoke out against Paramount Global, parent company of CBSreached an agreement with Trump, the comedian announced to the audience of his late-night show that he learned that “next year will be our last season. The network will end on Late Show in May.” The crowd responded with boos and complaints, and Colbert said, “Yes, I share your feelings.”
In his monologue on July 14, he said he was “offended” by the $16 million agreement reached by Paramount with Donald Trump’s lawyers; He added that the technical name in legal circles for the deal was “a huge bribe.” A bribe to the President of the United States for a “60 Minutes” report that he did not like. Trump applauded the show’s cancellation and mocked his critic and host.
In September, Jimmy Kimmel suffered the same fate, although a week later he regained his show. The chain ABC had eliminated his show “indefinitely” in September after a top Trump watchdog and many conservatives said it inaccurately described the politics of the man accused of shooting Charlie Kirk, a far-right activist.
The network backed down after public pressure and more than 400 celebrities, including Tom Hanks, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Kerry Washington, signed a letter sponsored by the American Civil Liberties Union denouncing Kimmel’s suspension as “a dark moment for free speech” in the United States. The decision had even been criticized by far-right Senator Ted Cruz, a Trump ally.
The President, extremely irritated by Kimmel’s return to his program, questioned the network’s decision to reinstate Kimmel, who he asserted plays “Democratic trash.” In addition, he threatened the chain ABC with putting her to the test and remembered that the last time he sued them he won 16 million dollars.
Just last weekend, Trump escalated his crusade against late-night comedy shows by publicly demanding the network NBC to “immediately” fire host Seth Meyers, whom he accused of suffering from “incurable Trump Derangement Syndrome” (TDS) and having no talent.
“NBC’s Seth Meyers suffers from an incurable case of Trump Disorder Syndrome (TTS). He looked furious last night, probably because his show is a total ratings failure. On top of everything else, Meyers has no talent, and NBC should fire him now!” were the words issued by the American president.
The announcement, made through his Truth Social platform, came in the wake of a recent segment on “Late Night with Seth Meyers,” where the 51-year-old comedian lashed out at Trump, calling him “the most unpopular President in the history” of the United States and noting growing discontent even among his MAGA support base, exacerbated by the Jeffrey Epstein email scandal.
This is not the first time Trump has directly targeted Meyers. In January 2025, after rumors about the renewal of the presenter’s contract until 2028, the president called him “one of the hosts of late night less talented” and threatened that NBC parent Comcast would “pay a big price” for airing critical content.
Lawsuits as a weapon of media control
Despite the First Amendment of the US Constitution that guarantees freedom of expression and the press, during his first and second terms Donald Trump has questioned journalists and even sued media outlets such as CBS, CNN, The New York Times y The Wall Street Journal by pointing out alleged hate speech or fake news.
Trump’s lawsuit against Paramount, the network’s parent company CBS which edited an interview by then-candidate Kamala Harris, concluded in July with a payment of $16 million and an agreement that paved the way for David Ellison, close to the President, to assume control of the company.
In the case of Epstein, accused of leading a network of sexual trafficking of minors, Trump sued the newspaper The Wall Street Journal for disseminating information regarding his closeness to him.
Meanwhile, ABC News agreed in December to pay $15 million to Trump’s presidential library over an alleged defamation lawsuit over host George Stephanopoulos’ claim that the then-President-elect had been found responsible for raping writer E. Jean Carroll.
Trump also sued Meta (Mark Zuckerberg) and Twitter before it was bought by billionaire Elon Musk. Meta agreed in January to pay him $25 million after suspending his Facebook account in 2021. X also agreed to settle the lawsuit Trump filed against then-Twitter for $10 million.
Instead, a federal judge in Florida threw out the 85-page lawsuit Trump filed against The New York Timeswhere he asked for 15 billion dollars for defamation.
In 2023, a federal judge had also dismissed a lawsuit that Trump filed against CNN in which the former US president pointed out that the use of the term “The Big Lie” with which the television network referred to his attempts to annul the 2020 elections was equivalent to comparing him to Adolf Hitler.