President Trump lashed out at a New York Times reporter Wednesday morning after she co-authored an unflattering story about his health, calling her “ugly, both inside and out” in his latest outburst toward a female journalist.
“[T]he Radical Left Lunatics in the soon to fold New York Times did a hit piece on me that I am perhaps losing my Energy, despite facts that show the exact opposite,” the 79-year-old raged over Tuesday’s story. “They know this is wrong, as is almost every thing that they write about me, including election results, ALL PURPOSELY NEGATIVE. This cheap ‘RAG’ is truly an ‘ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE.’”
Trump then rounded on Times White House correspondent Katie Rogers, who co-authored the story and who the president claimed “is assigned to write only bad things about me [and] is a third rate reporter who is ugly, both inside and out.”
Wednesday’s blast follows Trump admonishing a female Bloomberg News reporter, “Quiet, piggy,” during a gaggle on board Air Force One Nov. 14 as she attempted to ask him a question about the Jeffrey Epstein case files.
The Times story concluded that Trump “has fewer public events on his schedule and is traveling domestically much less than he did by this point during his first year in office, in 2017, although he is taking more foreign trips.
“He also keeps a shorter public schedule than he used to,” the story added. “Most of his public appearances fall between noon and 5 p.m., on average.”
Last month, Trump revealed that he underwent a MRI during an Oct. 10 “check-up” at Walter Reed Medical Center. Over the summer, the White House revealed that Trump had been diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency, which causes swelling in the ankles and legs.
Trump is the oldest man ever elected to the presidency and the second-oldest commander-in-chief in US history after former President Joe Biden. If the Republican serves out his full four-year term, he will take that record from Biden.
