Donald Trump told a female reporter to be “quiet, piggy” as he fielded questions about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein on Air Force One.
The US president was travelling back to Washington on Friday when a Bloomberg reporter asked why he did not want to release the remaining Epstein files.
Mr Trump was taking questions from a press gaggle when he singled out one female reporter, pointed in her face and told her: “Quiet, quiet piggy.”
Although the interaction happened last week, critics of the US president have begun circulating a clip of the moment.
Occupy Democrats, a left-leaning political organisation, said: “This is the President of the United States. This is how he talks to the press and other adults that he is supposed to lead. America can do so much better!”
Really American, another US political organisation, said it was a “disgusting moment” and described Mr Trump as a “disrespectful, unfit creep”.
Mr Trump has spent months trying to play down the Epstein files, dismissing them as a “Democrat hoax”.
