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President Donald Trump has been furious for the past two weeks with vicious attacks on the people who annoy him the most: journalists.

While Trump has long had a strained relationship with the press, his affronts lately have skewed in highly personal and degrading ways toward female journalists, for whom he regularly reserves his quietest insults.

His Wednesday morning speech took aim at New York Times reporter Katie Rogers, one of two journalists who worked on a Tuesday story about the president’s health, aging and reduction in public appearances. Trump called her “ugly.”

“Katie Rogers, who has been assigned to write nothing but bad things about me, is a third-rate reporter who is ugly, both inside and out,” Trump wrote in his 300-plus-word rant on Truth Social.

Notably, Trump said nothing in his post about the Times’ Dylan Freedman, who co-authored Rogers and contributed to the story by analyzing Trump’s schedules and social media posts.

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The latest attack came immediately after Trump told Bloomberg reporter Catherine Lucey, a veteran White House correspondent, to stop asking him questions about Jeffrey Epstein with two outrageous words heard around the world: “Quiet, little pig.” Trump pointed his finger at Lucey as he spoke as other journalists on Air Force One looked on.

Even White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt took pains to put a spin on that issue, telling reporters last week that at least Trump is “frank, open and honest face to face instead of hiding behind his back.”

Trump also lashed out at ABC News’ Mary Bruce last week, when she asked him how he could reconcile Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman sitting with him in the Oval Office even though his own intelligence agents discovered that the prince had ordered the violent murder of a Washington Post columnist in Istanbul in 2018.

“You don’t have to embarrass our guest by asking him a question like that,” Trump scolded Bruce as he sat next to Mohammed. He later called his interrogation “horrible, insubordinate” and “terrible.”

Trump escalated his rhetoric toward Bruce when she asked him why he wouldn’t release Epstein’s files on his own.

“It’s not the question that matters to me; it’s your attitude,” Trump shot back at Bruce.

“I think you’re a terrible journalist. It’s the way you ask these questions,” he said, adding, “You’re a terrible person and a terrible reporter.”