Kenworthy has also appeared in &34;80 for Brady&34; and the 2024 version of &34;Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead.&34; American Horror Story star and Olympic skier Gus Kenworthy urinates political message in snow Kenworthy has also appeared in &34;80 for Brady&34; and the 2024 version of &34;Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead.&34; By Raechal Shewfelt :maxbytes(150000):stripicc()/RaechalShewfeltauthorphotoc49d3a3b6aa442f588f2bbc0de804e09.jpg) Raechal Shewfelt Raechal Shewfelt is a writer at . She has been working at EW since 2024.

Kenworthy has also appeared in "80 for Brady" and the 2024 version of "Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead."

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Olympic skier Gus Kenworthy — also an actor who's appeared on *American Horror Story *— has made it clear where he stands in the conversation about ICE without even saying a word.**

On Thursday, he posted a photo of skis on snow with a message written in yellow: "f--- ice," which he later said was urine.

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The caption offered a sample script that people could use when calling their lawmakers to protest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

"You can call your Senator at (202) 224-3121 to speak up against ICE and put pressure on them during the current DHS funding negotiations," Kenworthy wrote.

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The personal protest comes at a time when the agency is under fire for its tactics, after agents fatally shot Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis last month.

Kenworthy is one of the estimated 2,900 athletes participating in this month's events at the Milano Cortina games. While he's competed for the United States in previous Olympics — he won a silver medal in 2014 — he's competing for Great Britain, where he was born, this go 'round, as he did in 2022.

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His appearance on nine episodes of *AHS* in 2019 led to more work. The following year, Kenworthy guest-starred on an episode of the *Will & Grace* revival. He was part of the star-studded cast for the 2023 movie *80 for Brady*, which also featured Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Rita Moreno, and Sally Field. He then had a part in the 2024 remake of *Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead*.

When it comes to his role as an athlete, the competition will reportedly go on. The Press Association, via ESPN, reports that a spokesperson for the International Olympic Committee said, "During the Olympic Games, all participants have the opportunity to express their views as per the athlete expression guidelines. The IOC does not regulate personal social media posts."

The 2026 Winter Olympics run through Feb. 22 on NBC and Peacock.**

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Also, Julie Plec reveals why Bamon never happened. Vampire Diaries boss reveals the real reason they killed Katherine in season 5 Also, Julie Plec reveals why Bamon never happened. By Samantha Highfill :maxbytes(150000):stripicc()/SamanthaHighfillauthorphoto0917254112e875604542d49744a27de908d183.jpg) Samantha Highfill Samantha Highfill is an executive editor at , where she's worked for more than 12 years covering television. EW's editorial guidelines August 18, 2021 9:00 a.m. ET Katherine Pierce was a staple of the Vampire Diaries universe.

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Katherine Pierce was a staple of the *Vampire Diaries* universe. But at one point in the series, the writers had to fight to tell more of her story.

"We had to negotiate for the right to let Nina [Dobrev] play Katherine again because the season 2 Katherine [story] had really taken everything out of her and the network was being very protective," executive producer Julie Plec says about the show's fifth season during episode 5 of *EW's Binge: The Vampire Diaries*. "[The network] and studio were being very protective and they were like, 'You can't do that anymore, you can't have Katherine.'"

On an earlier episode of the podcast, Dobrev spoke about how exhausted she was at the end of season 2, the first season in which she played both Elena and Katherine in the present day. So when it came time to make Katherine human and even introduce a third Petrova doppelgänger, the writers had to get creative. "We had to basically beg the network to let us even write story for Katherine," Plec says, noting that "the triplegänger made the whole thing worth it."

Nina Dobrev as Katherine Pierce on 'The Vampire Diaries'. Tina Rowden/The CW

Fans will remember that season 5 featured Katherine taking over Elena's body, which meant that for a good chunk of the season, Dobrev only had one character to play. And then, eventually, Katherine met her demise, a decision that also came about following those negotiations. "I literally think we had to say we'll kill her in order to get permission to use her," Plec recalls.

Additionally, during the podcast, Plec discusses the choice to have Bonnie (Kat Graham) and Damon (Ian Somerhalder) be the two characters who "die" together at the end of season 5, which led to a discussion about Bamon, the popular ship. "Bonnie and Damon had a thing in the books we had sort of always said, 'We don't buy a romantic connection between Bonnie and Damon because Damon's just done too many terrible things and Bonnie just has more integrity than that,'" Plec says. "But we wanted to service that relationship in the canon a little bit."

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Vampire Diaries writers and Candice King discuss the 'most bananas' season 7 twist By Samantha Highfill :maxbytes(150000):stripicc()/SamanthaHighfillauthorphoto0917254112e875604542d49744a27de908d183.jpg) Samantha Highfill Samantha Highfill is an executive editor at , where she's worked for more than 12 years covering television. EW's editorial guidelines August 25, 2021 9:00 a.m. ET Over the course of its eight seasons, The Vampire Diaries' mythology changed every now and then to fit a certain story.

Vampire Diaries writers and Candice King discuss the 'most bananas' season 7 twist

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Over the course of its eight seasons, *The Vampire Diaries*' mythology changed every now and then to fit a certain story. But in its seventh season, the show delivered its biggest change from its established mythology when, suddenly, Caroline (Candice King) became pregnant via a magical transfer. Even though she was a vampire, she was somehow carrying Alaric (Matthew Davis) and Jo's (Jodi Lyn O'Keefe) twins.

The twist was something the writers thought up as a way to soften the tragedy at the end of season 6 when Kai (Chris Wood) killed Jo and her unborn children—on her wedding day, no less. "We had always left that [story thread] hanging on instinct," writer Neil Reynolds says during episode 7 of *EW's Binge: The Vampire Diaries*.

Executive producer Julie Plec adds, "Because of the tragedy of the twins and Jo dying and looking for story for Alaric for the season, we had separately come up with the story of the woman who knocks on his door and is like, 'I think I'm pregnant with your babies.'" But the writers weren't sure if that twist was *too* crazy, so they didn't originally plan to go there. Until star Candice King called to let them know she was pregnant. "I was very nervous to make that call," King says on the podcast.

Candice King on 'The Vampire Diaries'. Bob Mahoney/The CW

Ultimately, the writers decided to work in King's pregnancy and use the aforementioned story, only instead of a random woman showing up pregnant, Caroline would carry Ric's kids. Plec remembers warning CW president Mark Pedowitz about "the most bananas thing" she was ever going to pitch him at the time, but surprisingly, he wasn't fazed. And thus Caroline's pregnancy became part of the series and will always go down as one of the show's most unexpected turns.

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Vampire Diaries star Ian Somerhalder reveals why he was jealous of Chris Wood's Kai By Samantha Highfill :maxbytes(150000):stripicc()/SamanthaHighfillauthorphoto0917254112e875604542d49744a27de908d183.jpg) Samantha Highfill Samantha Highfill is an executive editor at , where she's worked for more than 12 years covering television. EW's editorial guidelines August 20, 2021 9:00 a.m. ET The Vampire Diaries creators have talked a lot about the importance of a great villain for the series, and in its later seasons, there was one villain that stood out among the rest: Kai Parker (Chris Wood).

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The* Vampire Diaries* creators have talked a lot about the importance of a great villain for the series, and in its later seasons, there was one villain that stood out among the rest: Kai Parker (Chris Wood). Introduced in season 6, the sociopathic siphoner quickly became a favorite in the *TVD* fandom, and for Ian Somerhalder, whose Damon Salvatore was the series' first villain, Kai marked a significant shift for the show.

In episode 6 of *EW's Binge: The Vampire Diaries*, Somerhalder recalls his hesitation about Damon becoming a good — or at least better — guy in the show's third season. "I was so upset about the trajectory of Damon," Somerhalder says. "So much so that at one point I was sitting across from [executive producer] Julie [Plec] in her office in Atlanta almost in tears so angry about this."

Plec, along with her co-creator Kevin Williamson, explained that Damon couldn't be what they called a "one trick pony," that he was going to be the villain at times and the hero at others. But that's precisely why Somerhalder says he was jealous of what Chris Wood got to do as Kai in season 6. "That's why I was always so in love with what Chris Wood was doing on screen, because up until that moment, there was never a character in the show, other than Stefan in the Ripper age, that actually had the ability to not be so serious, to do horrific things but do it with a smile," Somerhalder says.

As far as Wood's inspiration for Kai, Wood, who's also on the podcast, says, "We talked about Ted Bundy if he was really funny. It was the worst person in the world who's also like maybe a good hang if you can get him to shut up for a second. That was sort of what I was always going for."

For more listen to the full podcast episode, featuring Somerhalder, Wood and executive producer Julie Plec, below:

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Listen to the final episode of EW's Binge: Vampire Diaries podcast. Vampire Diaries bosses on casting Enzo as a Salvatore brother and Damon's fate in the finale Listen to the final episode of EW's Binge: Vampire Diaries podcast. By Samantha Highfill :maxbytes(150000):stripicc()/SamanthaHighfillauthorphoto0917254112e875604542d49744a27de908d183.jpg) Samantha Highfill Samantha Highfill is an executive editor at , where she's worked for more than 12 years covering television. EW's editorial guidelines August 27, 2021 9:00 a.m.

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For *The Vampire Diaries* creatives, casting Enzo was a particularly difficult task. Because originally, the role was going to be very different.

"You were supposed to be the third Salvatore brother," executive producer Julie Plec tells star Michael Malarkey in episode 8 of *EW's Binge: The Vampire Diaries*. Writer Brett Matthews adds, "That was always the plan, and then it went a different direction, but that's why it was so hard to find the person. We thought it was going to be a Salvatore brother, so we cast a very wide net [and] looked very hard." Ultimately, they scrapped that plan and made it so Enzo didn't share Salvatore blood, but he was a brother figure for Damon (Ian Somerhalder) for many years (and he was sired by Lily Salvatore).

But that wasn't the only plan that changed in the writers' room over the years. In discussing the *Vampire Diaries*' final season, Plec and Matthews recall the final major debate: Which Salvatore were they going to kill in the series finale? "We went back and forth in the writers' room all season long," Plec says. "We finally landed on: We're killing Damon. That's the right thing to do. He is the one with the consequence to pay. Stefan was morally a bit stronger of a character."

Michael Malarkey as Enzo and Ian Somerhalder as Damon on 'The Vampire Diaries'. Annette Brown/The CW; Bob Mahoney/The CW

Matthews adds, "Damon's a fairly obvious choice," noting that the writers really fell in love with the idea of Damon compelling Stefan (Paul Wesley) to let him die. But when executive producer Kevin Williamson proposed that it should be Stefan that dies, they started to rethink their plan. "It felt like dying for Stefan freed him from a lot of weight, whereas it felt like living for Damon freed him to go and be the man that he was always supposed to be," Plec says.

Of course, both Salvatores were meant to die in the original ending Plec and Williamson came up with during the show's second season. In that ending, "The boys would sacrifice themselves to save Elena so that Elena could go and have a life and be human and live," Plec recalls during the podcast. "To save her, they would die together, and that was always the pitch. And then when Nina [Dobrev] left, it felt like the show can't be as much about protecting Elena's happiness, although that's important to us, but we want to protect the bothers' happiness, we want them to get something out of this. Then it shifted to: We can't kill both of them for her because that feels somehow like nobody got what they wanted. Let's find a different way to give one of these brothers the happiness that they need and the other brother the closure that they need."

(One other way Dobrev leaving changed the plan? Plec says, "I thought that by the time we came back to the end of the series, whenever it was, that Elena would've found her way back to Stefan and Damon would've found a different path.")

For more about the final season, listen to the full podcast episode below:

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19 Vintage Photos from the Olympics — from Jesse Owens' Historic Feat to Michael Phelps' RecordBreaking Streak Stephanie SengweFebruary 6, 2026 at 3:30 AM 0 Nadia Comaneci; Venus and Serena Williams; Michael Phelps Wally McNamee/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty; Gary M Prior/Allsport; MARTIN BUREAU/AFP via Getty The modern Winter and Summer Olympics give athletes around the world the chance to bring their best feet forward.

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The modern Winter and Summer Olympics give athletes around the world the chance to bring their best feet forward.

Dating all the way back to 1896, participating nations send their most qualified track stars, gymnasts, figure skaters, swimmers, tennis players and more to vie for their country's glory on the world stage. So, naturally, the Olympics have produced some of the most nail-biting, heartwarming and controversial moments of all time.

As we gear up for the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics kicking off today, (live coverage will begin at 2 p.m. EST, with the primetime event starting at 8 p.m. on NBC and Peacock), check out some vintage photos from past Games below.

01 of 19

Making History

Jesse Owens

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Jesse Owens of Team USA was pictured in action during the men's 200m at the 1936 Summer Olympic Games held in Berlin. Owens would go on to win a total of four gold medals that year, a feat that refuted Hitler's ideology that Black people were inferior.

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The Greatest of All Time

Eddie Crook, Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali), and Skeeter McClure

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Eddie Crook, Muhammad Ali (then Cassius Clay) and Skeeter McClure hang out with their gold medals on display while in the Olympic Village in 1960, Rome.

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Women Supporting Women

Wilma Rudolph, Dorothy Hyman, Guiseppina Leone

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Dorothy Hyman, Wilma Rudolph and Giuseppina Leone shake hands while standing on the podium at the 1960 Olympics.

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Going for Gold

Mark Spitz

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U.S. swimmer Mark Spitz proudly displays the five gold medals he won in the 1972 Summer Olympics. Winning seven gold medals total, he was the most decorated athlete at the 1972 games in Munich.

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Trailblazing Teen

Nadia Comaneci

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Romanian gymnast Nadia Comǎneci stood victorious on the podium with one of the three gold medals she won at the Montreal Olympics in 1976. At just 14-years-old, Comǎneci was the first gymnast in history to get a perfect score for her routine.

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A-Line

Kristi Yamaguchi

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Kristi Yamaguchi of Team U.S.A. became the first Asian-American to win an Olympic Gold Medal during the France Olympics in 1992.

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Living the Dream

Scottie Pippen, Michael Jordan, Clyde Drexler, and Karl Malone

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The 1992 Dream Team members Scottie Pippen, Michael Jordan, Clyde Drexler, and Karl Malone got their flowers after winning the Men's Gold Medal Game vs Croatia at the Spain Olympics in 1992.

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Feeling the Pride

Nigeria's Olympic soccer team

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Nigeria's Olympic soccer team posed in their green and white after beating out Argentina for the gold at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

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Wowing the Judges

Surya Bonaly

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France's Surya Bonaly stunned the judges during her performance in the women's Olympic figure skating competition in Nagano, 1998. After years of feeling underrated, Bonaly made waves at the 1998 Olympics after she performed an illegal backflip in protest.

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Power Duo

Venus and Serena Williams

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Team U.S.A.'s Venus and Serena Williams pose with their gold after winning the Women's Doubles Tennis Final at the 2000 Olympic Games in Australia. They would win together again in 2008 and 2012.

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Big Celebrations

Shaun White and family

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Shaun White and his family are ecstatic as they celebrate his winning the gold medal in the Men's Halfpipe finals in Italy, 2006.

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Roar of Triumph

Michael Phelps

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Michael Phelps triumphantly surfaced from the water after winning the men's 100m butterfly swimming final, which earned him a seventh gold medal and tied Mark Spitz's 1972 record. He would add another and officially set the record for most wins in a single Olympics.

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Big Winners

Team USA Men's Team

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Phelps, along with teammates Brendan Hansen, Jason Lezak and Aaron Piersol showed off their fresh bling.

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Lightning Bolt

Usain Bolt

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The gap wasn't even close between Usain Bolt and his competitors, as the famed Jamaican track star raced to victory during the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

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Winning Trio

Julia Mancuso, Lindsey Vonn, Elisabeth Görgl

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Julia Mancuso and Lindsey Vonn of the United States celebrate with Austria's Elisabeth Görgl during the flower ceremony for the Alpine Skiing Ladies Downhill during the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics.

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Happy Feet

Meryl Davis and Charlie White

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Meryl Davis and Charlie White of the United States compete in the Figure Skating Team Ice Dance at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. They would become the first American team to win Olympic gold in ice dance.

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Making Hearts Race

Hoda Kotb with Pita Taufatofua

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Tongan flag bearer Pita Taufatofua had the internet buzzing during the opening ceremony in 2016, so naturally, Today's Hoda Kotb had to make sure he is oiled up perfectly for their segment.

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Viva Brazil!

Brazil Olympic Men's Football Team

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Neymar Jr. of Brazil and his teammates take a bite of the gold after besting Germany in Rio, 2016.

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Road to G.O.A.T.

Simone Biles

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Simone Biles began her reign at the 2016 Olympics, pictured here in perfect form as she competes on the floor during the Artistic Gymnastics Women's Team Final. She would win five medals that year — four gold, one bronze — and set the record for most gold medals won in women's gymnastics in a single Olympics.

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The network and journalist Kaitlan Collins have responded. Trump attacks CNN reporter after she presses him on Epstein files: 'I don't think I've ever seen you smile' The network and journalist Kaitlan Collins have responded. By Raechal Shewfelt :maxbytes(150000):stripicc()/RaechalShewfeltauthorphotoc49d3a3b6aa442f588f2bbc0de804e09.jpg) Raechal Shewfelt Raechal Shewfelt is a writer at . She has been working at EW since 2024. Her work has previously appeared on Yahoo and in American Journalism Review and The Shreveport Times. EW's editorial guidelines February 3, 2026 11:14 p.m.

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President Donald Trump admonished CNN journalist Kaitlan Collins for not smiling enough as he spoke to reporters in the Oval Office on Tuesday.

The CNN journalist, the network's chief White House correspondent and anchor of the series *The Source with Kaitlan Collins*, had asked the president several questions about the Epstein files released Jan. 30.

He responded, saying the scandal was a "conspiracy against me" and that it was time for the country to move on, before he began talking about Collins' demeanor.

"You are so bad," Trump said. "You are the worst reporter. CNN has no ratings because of people like you."

Then the president looked around the bustling room and said, "You know, she's a young woman. I don't think I've ever seen you smile. I've known you for 10 years. I don't think I've ever seen a smile on your face."

When Collins, who's 33, tried to explain that she was asking him about survivors of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Trump cut her off again.

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"You know why you're not smiling?" he asked. "Because you know you're not telling the truth. And you're a very dishonest organization, and they should be ashamed of you."

Trump looked around the room to show that he was moving on to another question.

"These are survivors of a sexual abuser," Collins said.

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In a statement to **, a CNN spokesperson said, "Kaitlan Collins is an exceptional journalist, reporting every day from the White House and the field with real depth and tenacity. She skillfully brings that reporting to the anchor chair and CNN platforms every day, which audiences around the world know they can trust."**

Collins herself addressed the situation on Jake Tapper's show *The Lead*.

Kaitlan Collins is CNN's chief White House correspondent.

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"This is something where the survivors here have been at the center of this, and they have been the people who have said they're unhappy with what has come out of the Justice Department here so far," she said after the interaction, per Deadline. "I just spoke to one on Friday night who was saying that entire witness interviews with the FBI were redacted. The entire page was blacked out. And so these are real questions."**** Trump has been known to lash out at female reporters, such as in November 2025, when he infamously said, "Quiet. Quiet, piggy," to a journalist from Bloomberg News. She had also asked about the Epstein files, in which references to Trump appear.**

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