Earlier this year, when I shared, in a group chat among former classmates, links to news articles about a couple of our president’s own Truth Social posts, one ending with “Long Live the King,” and the other one envisioning the future of Gaza as a casino town with tall buildings and flashy “Trump Hotel” or “Trump Casino” signs, and luxury resorts in one of which he and Netanyahu were drinking, shirtless, by a pool, many responded with disgust or disbelief. But I also received two very interesting comments: one said that those were unimportant and uninteresting pieces of news, and that they did not have the time to waste on the media coverage every time the president, to put it more politely, scratches his nose. The other comment questioned my mental health, asserting that I was “stalking” the president! All this while there was absolutely no shortage of time just a few months earlier to spread the endless coverage Fox and Newsmax every time Biden fell off a bicycle or tripped while climbing the stairs of Air Force One.
If your views are similar to the latter two comments above, then the following is likely going to sound unimportant and uninteresting, and I recommend not continuing reading this post. But if you believe character is also important in elected officials, then carry on.
The news itself is old, but I just saw the White House press secretary’s comment about that:
” In the aftermath of President Donald Trump calling a reporter “piggy,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt suggested to journalists Thursday that they should be grateful he looks them in the eye and insults them.
“I think the president being frank and open and honest to your faces rather than hiding behind your backs is, frankly, a lot more respectful than what you saw in the last administration, where you had a president who lied to your faces and didn’t speak to you for weeks,” she said.” “
I believe any person insulting another person instead of civilized conversation is disgusting. It is even more embarrassing and alarming if it is the male president of a country that takes pride in its progress in human rights and women’s rights, insulting a female reporter. While I believe many non-human beings, including pigs, are likely much better than many human beings in terms of basic decency, using such slur with the intention of putting down and insulting another person is unbecoming of anybody. But I believe the reporter who asked Leavitt about it should have made an exception in this case, and as soon as Leavitt finished her ridiculous remarks in defense of that abhorrent insult, the reporter should have immediately responded with “quiet piggy!” you know, in the interest of “being frank and open and honest to your face” rather than hiding behind your back.