§47 —
On nasty
Democrat
13 TIMES
Here is the count. TheWrap tallied ten women reporters on the receiving end in thirty days last fall: on November 14, "Quiet, quiet piggy!"; on November 18, "terrible person"; on November 26, "ugly, both inside and out"; on November 27, "Are you stupid?" 1. On December 6, of a CNN anchor: "always Stupid and Nasty" 2. In August, Axios counted at least thirteen such attacks on women reporters since November 2025 and listed the vocabulary: "nasty," "piggy," "terrible," "ugly," "incapable" 3.
A question can be nasty; that was the defense, and in May it was about a question. Four of the five words on the list could not describe a question if they tried.
Sources
- Ten women reporters in thirty days: "Quiet, quiet piggy!" (14 November), "terrible person" (18 November), "ugly, both inside and out" (26 November), "Are you stupid?" (27 November) — TheWrap, 9 December 2025 ↑
- "Always Stupid and Nasty" — Truth Social — The Hill, 6 December 2025 ↑
- At least thirteen attacks on women reporters since November 2025; the words "nasty," "piggy," "terrible," "ugly," "incapable" — Axios, 31 August 2026 ↑
Republican
NASTY
The word has a long record and, at its best, a narrow target. In the October 2016 debate: "Such a nasty woman" 1. But the best-known recent use was aimed at a question, not a person. Asked in May 2025 about the trading desks' nickname for his tariff reversals: "And you ask a nasty question like that? It's called negotiation. ... That's a nasty question. To me, that's the nastiest question" 2.
The defense of the word is that one. A president who thinks a question is a cheap shot is entitled to say so, loudly, in the room where it was asked. The line between calling a question nasty and calling a person something is the whole argument, and the other column is the count of which side of it the word has been landing on.
Sources
“I want to say first, these are very good reporters. They ask very good questions — I'd never get a question like that out myself. May 28th of last year, a reporter asks about a trading nickname, and the answer is: "That's a nasty question. To me, that's the nastiest question." All right — that's about a question. Then November. "Quiet, quiet piggy." "Are you stupid?" "Ugly, both inside and out." December: "always Stupid and Nasty." Excuse me, I'm going. In May it was the question that was nasty. By November, what was?”— Lou
“Nasty. Ten years ago it was "such a nasty woman" on a debate stage. Now it's the White House press pool: "Quiet, quiet piggy." "Ugly, both inside and out." "Always Stupid and Nasty." Ten women reporters in thirty days by one count, at least thirteen times since November by another. He says it's the question that's nasty. The count keeps coming back to who asked it.”
“The president has enormous respect for the press, which is why he gives it such specific feedback — and if the feedback lately has gone mostly to women, that only reflects how many excellent questions women have been asking.”