Nov. 24, 2025 7 AM PT
To the editor: It’s an unlucky signal of our instances that the president of america viciously attacking a reporter’s cheap query by snapping “Quiet, piggy” doesn’t generate extra substantial nationwide condemnation. It suggests we’re turning into desensitized to the ugliness spewed by the president. Columnist Anita Chabria wrote an excellent evaluation of this problem (“‘Quiet, piggy’ wasn’t a joke. It’s a dangerous invitation to violence,” Nov. 21).
President Trump’s surprising and intensely ugly insult to this feminine reporter is solely the most recent in an extended line of his private assaults on girls. His go-to insults are to name a girl “very low IQ” (significantly when insulting a girl of shade) or calling girls “nasty” or “terrible.”
Prefer it or not, Trump’s conduct (just like the conduct of all previous presidents) units an instance for younger folks. Do we actually need Trump’s aberrant habits modeled by a technology of younger males? Do we wish that habits to be inflicted on our wives and daughters? By no more loudly condemning Trump’s appalling behaviors, we seem like detached to them, and even condoning them. What sort of a harmful society are we then creating for ladies and younger women on this nation?
Matthew Singerman, Newbury Park
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To the editor: The column by Chabria hit the mark. She notes how Atty. Gen. Pam Bondi stays in good graces by following the Trump administration playbook. Evidently Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt toes the road as nicely — and provides her personal particular twists.
Leavitt all the time manages to blast again tougher. Her official response to the “Quiet, quiet, piggy” comment was that Trump is forthright, open and trustworthy with reporters (by calling them names, apparently), in contrast to his predecessor, who remained aloof.
One other Leavitt twist got here when six Democrats in Congress made a brief video to remind service members that they had a proper and a accountability to refuse illegal orders. Leavitt shifted issues round to say that each one orders from the commander in chief are lawful. My query is: Does Leavitt actually consider this stuff herself?
Gene Nielsen, Crescent Mills
