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gulliver

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14. It wouldn't surprise me if the reporter who was called "Piggy" actually liked it.

Reply to senseandsensibility (Original post)

Mon Dec 1, 2025, 04:56 PM

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It wasn't about her weight, first of all. Google Catherine Lucey. I think Trump was just trying to evade the Epstein-related question by implying the reporter was hogging the press availability time.

In the current media personality market, being singled out by Trump, even to be snapped at, adds cred and clout, imo. Trump routinely snaps at Kaitlan Collins, for example, and it does nothing but improve her viewership.

Trump might even keep up the "Piggy" stuff with Lucey or riff on it, either to play it for humor or to throw Lucey a bone in the next availability. Or to distract from whatever he needs to distract from.

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