Anderson Cooper Is Utterly Flummoxed By Trump's 'Quiet, Piggy' Gibe

Anderson Cooper and Ana Navarro are urging people not to normalize Trump’s habit of degrading and insulting people after he called a reporter “piggy” last week. The two CNN anchors spoke about the president’s shocking dismissal of Catherine Lucey, a Bloomberg reporter, whom he attempted to silence on Air Force One on Friday by saying “quiet, quiet, piggy!” when she asked a question. “I know DEI [diversity, equity and inclusion] is not allowed anymore,” Cooper said Tuesday night on CNN. “And I know diversity and actually treating people with decency and human kindness is not, you know, what’s popular today in some quarters.” “But, I just don’t understand how somebody acts like this time after time, and everyone just pretends like, ‘Oh, that’s just what this guy does,’” Cooper said incredulously. Navarro said that people have “grown numb to it.” “I think we have to fight that urge to normalize it and get numb to it,” she added. “I also think that other journalists in the Oval Office ― other journalists that are present ― when he behaves this way, have to express solidarity with the people that are getting berated. ’Cause today it might be ABC, but tomorrow it might be us, or it might be them.” “It just can’t be allowed,” she said. “This is something that if your children did, you would scold them for it.” The White House later issued a statement in support of Trump’s “piggy” comment. “This reporter behaved in an inappropriate and unprofessional way toward her colleagues on the plane,” an official said in a statement Tuesday. “If you’re going to give it, you have to be able to take.” Trump also went off on another reporter over the weekend after someone asked the president about the potential release of new documents related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. “Well, I don’t want to talk about it because fake news like you, you’re a terrible reporter, and fake news like you, they just keep bringing that up to deflect from the tremendous success of the Trump administration,” the president said.