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The "silence, piglet" uttered by President Donald Trump to a journalist last week has become the latest example of the increasingly corrosive relationship between the president and the press since his return to power, with female journalists at the center of the crosshairs.
The insult, which Trump hurled at a Bloomberg correspondent aboard Air Force One after a question about the pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, symbolizes the progressive deterioration of a dynamic marked both by personal attacks on journalists and by open pressure on large media conglomerates.
It's not the first time the president has directly attacked journalists for not liking the questions they ask, attacks that are usually accompanied by the term 'fake news'.
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Days after this event, Trump called Mary Bruce, from the ABC network, a "terrible reporter" during a press conference in the Oval Office with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, in which the journalist asked about columnist Jamal Khashoggi, whose murder the CIA links to Bin Salman himself. "I don't like your attitude, you should go back to studying journalism," he reproached her. The White House justified this type of comments from the president as a show of his "transparency" and "honesty"; but the press, far from keeping quiet or thanking Trump for his "sincerity", came out in defense of freedom of information with a wave of criticism of the president. Among them, Jake Tapper stands out, one of the star presenters of the CNN network, who described the president's attitude as "repugnant and completely unacceptable". In social media, numerous users shared images of Trump ironically caricatured as a pig to emphasize their rejection of the president's attitude. Attacks against networks and presenters Although the Republican's offensive against the press is much more evident when directed at women in the guild, since his return to power in January 2025, Trump has harshly criticized presenters or television stations and has even called for the withdrawal of broadcasting licenses from major networks. This week, Trump intensified his attacks against ABC and urged that its license to operate be revoked, arguing that "its news is false and erroneous". The New Yorker's public offensive against the late-night show hosts has also become latent throughout 2025. After learning in July about the future cancellation of the Stephen Colbert program, which will end in May 2026, the president celebrated the decision with enthusiasm: "I love that Colbert has been fired. He had even less talent than audience," he wrote on his TruthSocial platform, before pointing towards another presenter. "I hear Jimmy Kimmel, who has even less talent, will be next," he added. And indeed, Kimmel's cancellation was not long in coming, when ABC removed his show from the schedule after pressure from the regulator for his comments on the assassination of the far-right activist Charlie Kirk. Kimmel reappeared before the cameras with a message: "We cannot allow our government to control what we say and what we don't say on television." Recently, Trump also lashed out at presenter Seth Meyers for his comments on the relationship between Epstein and the president and asked NBC to fire him immediately: "Meyers suffers from an incurable case of Trump Derangement Syndrome."
