We know a couple of things about Donald Trump for certain: 1. He hates the press. He feels they should be stenographers recording his press releases and to a large extent most of them comply in that regard. 2. He hates women, particularly intelligent ones and so these two factors had quite the confluence today. Here’s Trump calling a woman doing her job “piggy.”
Then the real travesty of the day took place in the White House. Trump publicly kissed the ass of the man responsible for a Washington Post journalist’s gruesome murder in 2018.
President Trump welcomed Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to the White House on Tuesday with fighter jets flying overhead, black horses processing across the South Lawn, and cannons firing in salute. It was the kind of welcome typically reserved for heads of state, which MBS technically isn’t. But Trump had promised he wasn’t just meeting with Saudi Arabia — he was “honoring” them. And he delivered on that promise, rolling out the red carpet for a man U.S. intelligence agencies concluded ordered the 2018 murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
When ABC News reporter Mary Bruce asked about that murder during the Oval Office meeting, Trump immediately jumped to MBS’s defense.
“You’re mentioning somebody that was extremely controversial,” Trump said, sitting right next to the Saudi crown prince. “A lot of people didn’t like that gentleman that you’re talking about. Whether you like him or didn’t like him, things happen, but [MBS] knew nothing about it, and we can leave it at that.”
And we suppose that Vladimir Putin never started the war in Ukraine, either. I just love this memory hole process. And here it gets worse.
And then Trump wanted to pull ABC’s license because he didn’t like this woman’s “attitude.” I praise the woman for being a real journalist and asking a real question and holding her ground. Although who knows? Her former colleague, Terry Moran of ABC News, got put at the door because he annoyed Der Fuhrher so maybe it will happen to this gal as well.
Mob boss attacks female reporter again for her “attitude” and says he will ask his FCC commissioner to look into revoking her company’s broadcast license.
— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) 2025-11-18T18:17:25.171Z
A U.S. resident and journalist gets lured into a consulate, murdered, and dismembered by a 15-person Saudi hit squad, and the president’s response is basically a shrug. Things happen. Oops.
Later in the meeting, after Bruce asked about the Justice Department’s files on Jeffrey Epstein, Trump circled back to her Khashoggi question and called it “a horrible, insubordinate and just a terrible question.” He told her she was “a terrible person and a terrible reporter.”
Right. Wouldn’t want to make a murderer feel awkward at his party.
Here’s what we know, despite Trump’s insistence otherwise: In November 2018, the CIA concluded that MBS personally ordered Khashoggi’s assassination. Then, in February 2021, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence put out a report that said flat-out: MBS approved an operation to capture or kill Khashoggi.
We live in corrupt times. And the corruption of the man in the White House beats all. Once again I hang my head in shame that this guy squeaked back in. Trump will always be a stain upon the honor of this republic.
