Karoline Leavitt Thinks That President Donald Trump Calling Someone a ‘Piggy’ Is Actually No Biggie

Life in the White House is never boar-ing.

After press secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked about the viral moment when President Donald Trump insulted a female reporter by calling her a “Piggy,” the 28-year-old political spokesperson appeared to tell reporters at her Thursday, November 20, briefing to give him some grace.

“Look, the president is very frank and honest with everyone in this room,” Leavitt said. “You’ve all seen it yourselves. You’ve all experienced it yourselves. And I think it’s one of the many reasons the American people reelected this president, because of his frankness.”

When the 79-year-old was speaking to a group of reporters on Air Force One on November 14, he was asked about the Jeffrey Epstein files, and the interaction was caught on camera.

As Trump was pressed about his connection to the convicted sex offender by Bloomberg correspondent Catherine Lucey, he appeared to point at her face (she was off-camera) and cut her off by saying, “Quiet. Quiet, Piggy.”

During Leavitt’s press briefing, she said Trump simply “calls out fake news when he sees it” and gets “frustrated with reporters when you lie about him” or his administration.

“But he also is the most transparent president in history, and he gives all of you in this room, as you all know, unprecedented access,” Leavitt continued. “You are in the Oval Office almost every day, asking the president questions.”

“And so I think the president being frank and open and honest to your faces, rather than hiding behind your backs, is frankly a lot more respectful than what you saw in the last administration, where you had a president who would lie to your face and then didn’t speak to you for weeks,” Leavitt said. “I think everyone in this room should appreciate the frankness and the openness that you get from President Trump on a near-daily basis.”

After the “Piggy” clip made headlines, the White House appeared to brush off Trump’s brash behavior.

In a statement to political website The Hill, an unnamed White House official said, “This reporter behaved in an inappropriate and unprofessional way towards her colleagues on the plane. If you’re going to give it, you have to be able to take.”

It was not made clear, however, what the female reporter did that was “inappropriate and unprofessional.”