Donald Trump’s vile ‘Quiet Piggy’ insult slapped down by UK minister in blunt response
Health Secretary Wes Streeting has called out Donald Trump after he pointed at a female reporter and told her ‘Quiet! Quiet, piggy’ on an Air Force One flight
Wes Streeting responds to Trump’s ‘piggy’ comment
Wes Streeting has called out Donald Trump after he pointed at a female reporter and told her “Quiet! Quiet, piggy”.
The Health Secretary suggested such behaviour towards women “belongs in the history books” and said he’d be surprised if a leading politician in Britain spoke to a political reporter like that.
Mr Streeting also said he wouldn’t want his sisters to be spoken to like that, adding: “I don’t think that’s appropriate in any context, let alone a professional one.”
Mr Trump barked the shocking insult at CBS News’s Jennifer Jacobs when she asked him a question about the Epstein files en route to Washington on Air Force One on Monday night.
After being played the clip of Mr Trump’s vile comments on ITV’s This Morning, Mr Streeting admitted bluntly: “It’s just not right.”
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He continued: “For all the faults in British politics, I would be surprised if any leading politician in our country ever spoke to a woman in our press lobby like that. That’s not to say, by the way, that women journalists do not have a hard time.
“And we’ve seen examples over the years of everything from sexual harassment through to male politicians only giving interviews and stories to male journalists. So I’m not pretending that we’ve cracked all these issues here.
“This is a constant battle to tackle sexism and misogyny in our society. But we need to move on from that kind of language and behaviour towards women. It belongs in the history books, not on our television and news screens today.”
The Cabinet minister – who is today launching England’s first ever Men’s Health Strategy – said part of his plan includes work on “changing in the culture of what it means to be a man and what it means to be strong”.
He continued: “There are lots of people on the internet at the moment, that are trying to sort of radicalise particularly young men with stuff that’s quite sexist and misogynistic, and they’re trying to send an image to people that says: In order to be a man, that’s about earning loads of money, having massive cars and basically being extreme misogynistic to women.
“And I don’t think that’s what makes for being a good man, and, we need better role models. And, you know, I wouldn’t want my sisters to be spoken to like that. And I don’t think that’s appropriate in any context, let alone a professional one.”
A new Government strategy for men’s health is being launched to tackle issues such as suicide, alcohol abuse and problem gambling. The strategy, which will be published in full by the Government on Wednesday, aims to set out plans for dealing with the physical and mental health challenges specifically facing men.
The Department of Health said men are less likely to seek help and can suffer in silence, and are more likely to smoke, drink, gamble and use drugs than women. The Government says it will invest £3.6million over the next three years in suicide prevention projects for middle-aged men in local communities where men are at most risk of taking their own lives, including some of the most deprived parts of England.
