{"id":7891792,"date":"2025-11-18T18:02:58","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T02:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/?p=7891792"},"modified":"2025-11-18T18:03:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T02:03:44","slug":"trump-journalist-bullying-katie-couric-margaret-sullivan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/trump-journalist-bullying-katie-couric-margaret-sullivan\/","title":{"rendered":"Katie Couric, Margaret Sullivan Furious at Trump\u2019s Insults to Journalists: \u2018News Organizations Should Push Back, Hard\u2019\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p>What&#8217;s the right response when President Trump calls a woman journalist &#8220;Piggy&#8221;? Or pronounces another woman journalist&nbsp;&#8220;a terrible person&#8221; who is simply doing her job in front of world media and leaders?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two leading journalists jumped on the phone Tuesday to share their outrage that Trump did that to Catherine Lucey from Bloomberg News &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/trump-quiet-piggy-reporter-video-reactions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">calling her \u201cPiggy\u201d on Air Force 1<\/a> in response to a question about the Epstein files &#8212; before attacking ABC News White House correspondent Mary Bruce, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/trump-epstein-abc-attacks-reporter-license\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">who asked\u00a0whether his family\u2019s business dealings with Saudi Arabia<\/a> constituted a conflict of interest,\u00a0in front of the Saudi leader Mohammed bin Salman.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:21px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-default\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"970\" height=\"250\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thewrap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Blank-970.png?resize=970%2C250&#038;quality=80&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7924914\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thewrap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Blank-970.png?w=970&amp;quality=80&amp;ssl=1 970w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thewrap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Blank-970.png?resize=300%2C77&amp;quality=80&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thewrap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Blank-970.png?resize=768%2C198&amp;quality=80&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 970px) 100vw, 970px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:21px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Following Friday&#8217;s Air Force 1 &#8220;Piggy&#8221; remark, the president called Bruce \u201ca terrible person\u201d Tuesday after a tongue-lashing about ABC News in which he said the network\u2019s federal broadcast license should be revoked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere are no excuses for this,\u201d veteran television journalist Katie Couric told me when I called her about the personal attacks. \u201cIt is just devolving more and more every day. No matter what people think of the press, they should not be tolerating this level of bullying and demeaning and insulting language.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">ABC News&#39; Chief White House Correspondent Mary Bruce asked Pres. Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman about journalist Jamal Khashoggi&#39;s murder and the anger 9\/11 families have expressed over the visit because of Saudi Arabia&#39;s alleged role. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7fVh09CzQI\">https:\/\/t.co\/7fVh09CzQI<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dukVdO8xI7\">pic.twitter.com\/dukVdO8xI7<\/a><\/p>&mdash; ABC News (@ABC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ABC\/status\/1990933266820473153?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 19, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Margaret Sullivan,&nbsp;executive director for the Craig Newmark Center for Journalism Ethics and Security at Columbia Journalism School and media columnist for The Guardian US, agreed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just appalling to see and hear the president of U.S. attacking a woman journalist and calling her a name like \u2018Piggy\u2019 and ordering her to be quiet. It\u2019s completely unacceptable,\u201d she said in an interview.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"618\" height=\"412\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thewrap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/KatieCouricPWB.jpg?resize=618%2C412&#038;quality=89&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Power Women Breakfast Austin TX Katie Couric 2018\" class=\"wp-image-1835111\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thewrap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/KatieCouricPWB.jpg?w=618&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 618w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thewrap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/KatieCouricPWB.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thewrap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/KatieCouricPWB.jpg?resize=340%2C226&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Katie Couric (Nathan Rocky for TheWrap)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So in an environment of outrage fatigue and the wearing down of norms in political discourse, what is the appropriate response, I asked?\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know exactly what that should look like,\u201d said Sullivan. \u201cBut what it shouldn\u2019t look like [is] everyone standing around, business as usual. Her colleagues and the people around her in the press corps should have stood up for her in the moment &#8230; It does need to be called out, and broadly. The news organizations and leadership should certainly be pushing back, hard.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Couric agreed with Sullivan that there needs to be a formal response, beyond expressions of tweeted support by colleagues such as New York Times correspondent Peter Baker or CNN\u2019s Kaitlan Collins.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-bluesky-social wp-block-embed-bluesky-social\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:tm256llkpggffiiuwk4tgiej\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3m5wswbloec2z\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreid2icmfpv2t65ut6wpdwimts6z4ug4s34r5razumg5jx5bunbvooi\"><p lang=\"en\">It may be repeating the obvious, but Mary Bruce is a first-rate reporter. In the face of a presidential tirade aimed at silencing her, she calmly and professionally demonstrated why a free and independent media remains essential, asking questions that people in power don&#39;t want to answer<\/p>&mdash; <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:tm256llkpggffiiuwk4tgiej?ref_src=embed\">Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt.bsky.social)<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:tm256llkpggffiiuwk4tgiej\/post\/3m5wswbloec2z?ref_src=embed\">2025-11-18T22:45:29.245Z<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe White House Press Association and the heads of the news organizations need to have a meeting at the White House to discuss the deteriorating relationship between the White House and the men and women who cover it,\u201d said Couric. \u201cTheir silence is deafening.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She added: &#8220;It raises the temperature so much, it demonizes journalists even more than they have been by the administration previously.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So far the White House Press Association has not issued a formal response to the attack on Bruce, which is hardly the first time Trump has attacked a reporter. He frequently insults Collins, who serves as CNN\u2019s Chief White House Correspondent, and recently insulted\u00a0ABC News correspondent\u00a0Jonathan Karl, saying:\u00a0\u201cYou\u2019re a terrible reporter \u2026 You know it and so do I.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But he seems to especially bully female reporters and specifically female reporters of color, such as NBC\u2019s Yamiche Alcindor and April Ryan, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/nasty-white-house-correspondent-april-ryan-says-trump-has-a-problem-with-women-of-color\/?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">who told TheWrap<\/a> in 2018&nbsp;that Trump\u2019s attacks on her are part of a pattern of \u201cvenom directed at women of color in the newsroom.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thewrap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Margaret-Sullivan.jpeg?resize=1024%2C576&#038;quality=89&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Margaret Sullivan attends a Washington Post town hall conversation on July 21, 2016. 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(Eric Hanson\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The insult to Bloomberg\u2019s Lucey came in response to a question about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein as public pressure mounts on Trump to release the Department of Justice\u2019s files on the sex offender. The House of Representatives voted to release the files on Tuesday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bruce used Trump\u2019s meeting with the Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the Oval Office not just to ask about his family\u2019s business dealings in the kingdom but also about the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This set Trump off. \u201cPeople are wise to your hoax,\u201d he said. \u201cYour crappy company is one of the perpetrators.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAnd I\u2019ll tell you something,&#8221; he continued, &#8220;I think the license should be taken away from ABC because your news is so fake and is so wrong. And we have a great commissioner, a chairman, who should look at that.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump said that it\u2019s not \u201cthe question that I mind,\u201d but rather Bruce\u2019s \u201cattitude.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ABC News declined TheWrap&#8217;s request for comment; Bloomberg News did not respond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Said Couric: \u201cI\u2019ve had people challenging me. Yasser Arafat got sharp with me and said, \u2018Who told you that?\u2019\u00a0But never have I ever been insulted in the way this president insults journalists on a regular basis simply because they are asking him important questions. That\u2019s their goddam jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sullivan said the reporters themselves might have been too shocked in the moment to respond. &#8220;That\u2019s a very shocking thing to have happen,&#8221; she said. &#8220;She might not have had the resources in the moment.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Couric said she would have pushed back in the Air Force 1 incident: \u201c&#8217;Excuse me sir? 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