... Donald Trump's niece, Mary Trump, says one of the reasons the president seems to be increasingly lashing out at female reporters is because he is "rattled."
Mary, 60, discussed the rise in incidents on the Wednesday edition of her show, Mary Trump Live. She noted the 79-year-old president calling a reporter "piggy" while telling her to be quiet during a gaggle aboard Air Force One, and a Truth Social post in which he insulted a New York Times reporter's looks.
Mary Trump, American psychologist and writer and niece to President of the United States Donald Trump, poses for a photograph at Hay Festival on May 26, 2025 in Hay-on-Wye, Wales. The annual festival of literature and the arts returns to Hay-on-Wye. Peter Florence devised the popular British culture festival along with his parents, Norman and Rhoda in 1988 and was described by Bill Clinton in 2001 as "The Woodstock of the mind". (Photo by Matthew Horwood/
"His misogynistic attacks against reporters in particular are increasing and that means a couple of things," she explained. "It means that he's increasingly comfortable lodging such attacks, as he's been openly misogynistic, as he's been openly racist and openly Islamophobic and openly anti-immigrant and openly antisemitic. There's no hiding it anymore."
"I think it's also a sign that he's a little rattled. He's also never clearly heard of the Streisand effect," Mary said, referring to the internet phenomenon where somebody inadvertently draws further attention to something while attempting to hide it from the public.
"When you call attention to the thing you want people to ignore, it's probably a terrible idea." ...