Donald Trump's “misogynistic attacks against reporters in particular are increasing and that means a couple of things," said the president's niece.
By Lee Moran
Mary Trump suggested on Wednesday that the degrading attacks her uncle, Donald Trump, is now more frequently launching against female reporters show that he’s clearly “rattled.”
The president recently told Bloomberg’s Catherine Lucey: “Quiet, piggy,” and earlier this week called The New York Times’ Katie Rogers’ “ugly” after an article she wrote, alongside Dylan Freedman, who he didn’t even refer to, dared to shine a light on his lightened workload and energy levels.
Mary Trump, a clinical psychologist and longtime critic of her relative, argued on the latest episode of “Mary Trump Live” that the “misogynistic attacks against reporters in particular are increasing and that means a couple of things.”
“It means that he’s increasingly comfortable lodging such attacks,” she said. “Like, he’s been as openly misogynistic as he’s been openly racist and openly Islamophobic and openly anti-immigrant and openly antisemitic. “
“There’s no hiding it anymore,” she continued.
“But I think it’s also a sign that he’s a little rattled,” Mary Trump summarized.
The president has also “never clearly heard of the Streisand effect,” she quipped, explaining it as “when you call attention to the thing you want people to ignore,” and doing so is “probably a terrible idea.”