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Is there verified video or audio of Donald Trump calling a reporter 'piggy' and where can it be viewed?
Executive summary
Video of the exchange in which President Donald Trump says “Quiet, quiet, piggy” to a Bloomberg reporter aboard Air Force One has been published by the White House and covered widely; multiple outlets — including BBC, CNN, Reuters and Deadline — report the phrase and link or point to the released clip (see BBC’s video page and Deadline’s writeup) [1] [2]. News organizations identify the reporter as Bloomberg’s Catherine Lucey and note the clip circulated after a Nov. 14 gaggle about Jeffrey Epstein files [3] [2].
1. What exists: an official clip and broad media pickup
The White House released video of the Nov. 14 Air Force One gaggle that contains the moment in question; mainstream outlets transcribed the line as “Quiet, quiet, piggy” and published the clip or linked to it — for example, the BBC’s video page includes the exchange and Deadline wrote that Trump “told a reporter … ‘Quiet, quiet, piggy’” [1] [2]. CNN, Reuters, The New York Times and others covered the clip as a viral, on-camera incident [4] [5] [6].
2. Where you can view it: White House release and mainstream outlets
Available reporting indicates the full interaction was posted by the White House (Snopes cites the White House YouTube posting) and that multiple news outlets have embedded or hosted the clip — BBC’s video player is one explicit example and CNN, Deadline and other outlets ran the video in their stories [1] [4] [2] [7]. If you want to watch the primary footage, search the White House’s official video channels or the pages of BBC/CNN/Deadline that ran the clip [7] [1] [2].
3. Who was targeted and the context of the question
News reports identify the reporter as Bloomberg correspondent Catherine Lucey; she was asking about recently released Jeffrey Epstein emails and whether Trump would order the release of files if nothing incriminating existed — Lucey began a follow-up (“Sir, if there’s nothing incriminating…”) before being cut off by Trump’s remark [3] [2]. Multiple outlets link the comment directly to that line of questioning about Epstein documents [2] [8].
4. Disagreements, clarifications and fact‑checking notes
Some social posts attempted to reframe the line as “Peggy” or otherwise dispute the transcription; fact-checking and mainstream outlets report the phrase as “piggy,” and Snopes notes the clip is available on the White House channel [7] [9]. Reporting does not show any outlet conclusively replacing “piggy” with another name in the video itself; accounts from major outlets consistently quote “Quiet, quiet, piggy” [2] [4] [1].
5. Reactions and official defense
The White House defended the president’s language at a subsequent briefing, with Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt calling it an example of Trump’s “frankness” and urging reporters to appreciate his openness; that defense and the broader backlash were reported by Reuters, The New York Times, PBS and others [5] [6] [10]. News organizations, press groups and commentators criticized the insult as demeaning; the coverage records both the defense and the condemnations [6] [5].
6. Limitations in available reporting and what’s not in the sources
Available sources document the White House posting and wide media dissemination of the clip but do not provide a verbatim forensic audio transcript from an independent audio expert beyond what newsrooms transcribed [7] [2]. Sources do not mention any official retraction of the White House video or a published independent audio analysis reversing the transcription; if you seek an exact frame-by-frame or waveform analysis, that is not found in current reporting [7].
7. How to verify for yourself and what to watch for
To verify: view the White House’s posted video (the clip is referenced as posted on the administration’s channels) and compare how major news outlets embed or transcribe the same passage — BBC and CNN are explicit examples that include the clip and wording [7] [1] [4]. Watch the moment when Catherine Lucey begins to ask the follow-up question; the exchange and Trump’s pointing gesture are present in the footage described across outlets [2] [3].
Summary takeaway: multiple mainstream outlets and the White House itself present video showing Trump saying “Quiet, quiet, piggy” to a Bloomberg reporter during a Nov. 14 Air Force One gaggle about Epstein documents, and the footage can be found via the White House’s posted video and through embedded clips on BBC, CNN, Deadline and others [7] [1] [2] [4].