Donald Trump’s ‘Quiet, piggy’ jibe – ‘Just when you think the US President can scrape no lower, he manages to do just that’

Trump’s vicious insult towards an American journalist isn’t the first time he’s compared women to swine – but this time it’s about more than just misogny

Donald Trump shut Epstein questions down with his ‘piggy’ insult to a reporter on Air Force One. Photo: Getty

When it comes to the public utterances of Donald Trump, the outrageous, barely believable moments come thick and fast. And just when you think the US President can scrape no lower, he manages to do just that.

In a breath-taking moment, Trump wagged a finger in a female journalist’s face as she attempted to ask him about the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files and said: “Quiet, piggy.”