Same old story
I am sitting here looking at a screen that feels like a bad rerun from ten years ago.
Another week. Another woman asking a question. Another insult from the man in the big chair.
This time it is Katie Rogers from The New York Times. She is a good reporter. She does the work. But this week, she found herself in the middle of a storm. President Trump went on Truth Social and called her "ugly."
He did not say she was wrong. He did not say her math was bad. He said she was a "third-rate reporter who is ugly, both inside and out."
I have been in this business a long time. I have been yelled at by city council members and hung up on by senators. But this? This is something else. It is personal. It is nasty. And frankly, it is boring. We have seen this movie before.
The president's Truth Social post slammed Rogers following an article suggesting he was slowing down, despite Trump's insistence he's working harder than ever. This isn't a one-off; Trump has a history of targeting female journalists with personal insults, sparking widespread…
November 27, 2025
The crime? Saying he looks tired.
So what did Rogers do to make the President so mad? Did she uncover a secret bank account? Did she find a tape?
No. She wrote a story that said he looks tired.
She wrote it with a data guy named Dylan Freedman. They looked at his schedule. They looked at the clock. The man is 79 years old. They noted that he is doing fewer events. They wrote that he looked sleepy during a meeting in the Oval Office earlier this month.
That is it. That is the crime.
Trump hates being called old. He hates being called low energy. So he lashed out. He called it a "hit piece." He said he has "never worked so hard in my life." He bragged about a "perfect physical exam" and said he "aced" a cognitive test.
He did not show proof. He just said it. And then he called the woman who wrote it ugly.
The pig problem
If this was just one time, maybe we could ignore it. Maybe we could say he had a bad day. But looking at the notes on my desk, the pile is getting high.
This is a pattern. And it is getting worse.
Just a few weeks ago, on November 14, Catherine Lucey from Bloomberg was on Air Force One. She is another pro. She asked him about the Jeffrey Epstein files. It is a fair question. It is a question people want answered.
Trump did not answer. He cut her off. He pointed a finger at her.
"Quiet. Quiet, piggy."
That is what he said. Piggy.
Then last week, Mary Bruce from ABC News tried to do her job. She was at a meeting with the Saudi Crown Prince. She asked about the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. She asked about Epstein.
Trump yelled at her. He called her a "terrible person." He even threatened the license for ABC.
See the line connecting the dots? It is always women. And it is always about how they look or how "terrible" they are.
A long history of hate
This is not new. I remember 2015. I remember Megyn Kelly. I remember him calling Alicia Machado "Miss Piggy" way back in 1996 because she gained some weight. I remember him saying a columnist named Gail Collins had "the face of a pig."
He has a thing with pigs. It is his go-to insult when a woman stands up to him.
The Society of Professional Journalists put out a statement. They said this is a "pattern of hostility." They are right. But statements do not stop bullies.
The White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, tried to spin this. She said Trump is just being "frank and open and honest." She said it is better than the last guy.
Honest? Calling a professional reporter "piggy" is not honest. It is cheap. It is weak. It is an attempt to make them feel small so they stop asking big questions.
Why it matters
Look, I know what some of you are thinking. You are thinking, "Chronicle, who cares? It is just words. Sticks and stones."
But it matters.
It matters because the person saying these things has the nuclear codes. It matters because when the most powerful man in the world tells a woman she is ugly or a pig, he is telling his millions of fans that it is okay to treat women that way.
He is trying to scare them. He wants Katie Rogers to think twice before she types the next sentence. He wants Catherine Lucey to sit down and shut up next time he walks by.
The New York Times stood up for Rogers. They said her reporting was accurate. They said, "Name-calling and personal insults don't change that."
They are right. But it takes a toll. I have seen good reporters burn out. I have seen thier hands shake after a press briefing. It is not easy to stand there while the President of the United States makes fun of your face.
The bottom line
We are in late 2025. The world is a mess. We need people asking hard questions about energy, about wars, about money, about Epstein.
We need reporters who are not scared.
Trump can call them ugly. He can call them pigs. He can threaten their jobs. But the facts are still the facts. He is 79. He is slowing down. And he is angry that people are noticing.
This is not "frankness." This is fear. He is afraid of the truth, so he attacks the messenger.
For us at InfactoWeaver, and for every reporter pounding keys at 2 AM, the job stays the same. We ignore the names. We check the facts. We keep typing.
Because the only thing uglier than his insults is a world where no one dares to ask him why he is so tired.