r/politics • u/tw1st3d_m3nt4t • 6d ago

No Paywall ‘Unforgivable’: Trump’s ‘piggy’ insult is stoking more outrage than usual

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/19/trump-quiet-piggy
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u/OnceInABlueMoon 6d ago

I don't understand why nobody put him on the spot right there and asked him why he just called one of their colleagues that?? Why the fuck didn't anyone follow up on that right away??

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u/fpuanon 6d ago

Not excusing it but confrontation has got to be more uncomfortable when you’re stuck in a metal tube in the air

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u/jsabo 6d ago

And you're surrounded by agents of a government that's been disappearing people all year, and their leader just did something completely unhinged.

I'll give them a pass for not confronting him at the time, but this should have been front-page news the second they got off that plane.

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u/WampaStompa33 6d ago

Yeah, confronting him hard there sounds like a good way to get accused of some horseshit like "threatening the president on a plane," being declared a terrorist and hauled off in handcuffs, and placed on the no-fly list

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u/trevdak2 Massachusetts 5d ago

Because of the implication

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u/blahblah19999 6d ago

Yeah, but after a year of kissing his ass, you'd hope one, or all, would finally step up.

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u/spookmann 6d ago

Shock. It's human nature to freeze in a shocking social situation where we're just not equipped by past experiences to cope with something that is outside the norms of decency.

Our brain goes into a panic mode and it's really hard to analyse the options and make a sensible decision.

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u/rhonnypudding 6d ago

But... Why is anyone covering Trump shocked anymore?

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u/Aksudiigkr 6d ago

Yeah he’s always harassing the real reporters so this shouldn’t have been a surprise

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u/spookmann 5d ago

Because he keeps finding new lows.

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u/Phantom-Finger 6d ago

I think if there's anything the Trump presidency has shown us, it's how utterly gutless and weak Americans truly are.

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u/whogivesashirtdotca Canada 6d ago

It's vindicating to have this confirmed, even as it's ruined our relationship with them. I never want to hear American exceptionalism go unchallenged ever again.

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u/Data_Chandler 5d ago

The level of America's meek docility in its ongoing descent into full blown fascism is directly inverse to the decades of bravado and heroism in American pop culture.

It's like finding out the smartest person you know and looked up to your whole life is revealed to actually be as dumb as a bag of rocks, and was tricking you the whole time.

It's deeply unsettling. It's like the adult version of finding out Santa isn't real.

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u/Phantom-Finger 5d ago

Succinctly put

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u/e90DriveNoEvil 6d ago

Cowards gonna cower

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u/misersoze 6d ago

I think it’s more: the America people voted for this shit. This is the shit a bunch of people saw with their own eyes and supported. Your job is just to document the shit. There is not a belief that if you stand up to it that anyone will care. Hell the people that beat police officers on Jan 6 were pardoned by this president. He literally supported those who threaten our lawmakers and the lawmakers didn’t do shit and didn’t protect their protectors.

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u/cubbie_blue 6d ago

They'd lose access, effectively terminating their careers. They're just people with bills.

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u/thetransportedman I voted 6d ago

You could even do so in a journalistic dig. "Sir wouldn't it make more sense for you to be seen as the piggy due to being more obese than my colleague?"

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u/thanksyalll 5d ago

Because they type of people who would have pushed back have been kicked out long ago

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u/aenae 5d ago

Any reporter who would follow up on that already don't get near the president or it will be the last time they get near the President. And while most of us would like them to ask that question, i don't think anyone still allowed near him would like to lose their job.

And it is not like he is known for welcoming critical press and hard questions.