@ananasparachute Why are they all so afraid of this old bigot?
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Because he's in control of the United States military, runs ice as a personal paramilitary force, uses the DOJ as a personal law firm and has rabid and violent followers who are willing to commit violence to please him.
@atzanteol @bouriquet @ananasparachute also, they are in a closed space with his armed guards. he can order his armed guards to shoot you. i assume this has never yet happened but at least some of them must have thought this.
@atzanteol @bouriquet @ananasparachute And most important: can throw you out of the White House which makes you unemployed.

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We saw a glimpse of the real Trump for a second, the guy behind closed doors, the one who violently raped his ex wife in a fury, tearing out her hair, who assaulted E. Jean Carroll.

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In a sane world, every reporter in the pool would ask nothing but her question until he (a) answered it, and (b) apologized for his abuse.

But they're mostly gutless cowards.

@ananasparachute I truly believe that he's more terrified of the power of the person asking the question than he is of the actual question. He's got to control the narrative and everyone around him, and he simply doesn't know how to control women. They scare him if he can't buy or abuse them. They hold ALL the power in his world.
@ananasparachute Trump and his cult are such an embarrassment to humanity.
@ananasparachute it really is terrible that no one dared to tell him that that was unacceptable. What was he going to do? Murder her in mid-air? Throw off his plane?
@ArchaeoIain @ananasparachute sure. who's going to stop him? do you really think he wouldn't, if he thought he could?
@ananasparachute Hard to believe that a person who constantly abuses women abused... oh NVM

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These are not reporters. They are access junkies. Of course they would say nothing.

Thats false news. According to the guardian it was Catherine Lucey not Jennifer Jacobs

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/18/trump-calls-reporter-piggy-bloomberg

Trump faces criticism for referring to female Bloomberg reporter as ‘piggy’

Critics accuse the US president of trying to ‘shut women journalists up’ with ‘demeaning language’

The Guardian

@ananasparachute I think what’s worse is that Trump only does things that will be liked by his following.

There are millions of people that WANT this. And they’re raising their children to do MORE of it. They’re changing the school system to do EVEN MORE of it.

Authoritarianism’s flipside is the loyalty, the obedience & the herd mentality. None of it would be possible otherwise.

@ananasparachute Are we that desensitised as a species? To the point where simple decency is left to rot and selfish hubris is the norm? The Fediverse seems to be the last bastion of acceptance and sense.

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A con man and a bullying thug ruling in the US and the collected press bending its knee… shame on them.

@ananasparachute i'd like to know her pronouns.
@ananasparachute He gets more awful with every day. I hope there are a lot of embarrassed voters in the United States of America.

@ananasparachute state media will never stand up to the state though

it's wasted time and energy trying to stand up for the state's own media.. they aren't there to serve you