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Pigs famously have thick skin, and Donald Trump does not. Its just one of myriad distinctions between the cloven-hoofed barnyard animal and Americas 47th president. Theres a good reason, however, why many social media users are currently addressing Trump as Piggy, and sharing crude, AI-assisted images of him in porcine form. Rest assured, he paved his own pathway to hog heaven. On Monday, a clip of Trump addressing reporters aboard Air Force One went viral. It begins with reporter Jennifer Jacobs pressing Trump about the eternally unfurling Epstein scandal. The president seems as though hed rather not answer the questionat least, thats how it comes across when he admonishes Jacobs: Quiet, Piggy. While leaders in most professions might be disciplined or even fired for such a transgression, Trump has proven uniquely immune to formal consequences for violating norms. But he is in no way immune to informal consequences, which is why the internet has already repurposed Quiet, Piggy into a memetic insult against Trump. Bluesky users have started quote-tweeting Trumps latest TruthSocial dispatches with the new catchphrase, and theyre doing the same for media appearances from Trumpian underlings like House Speaker Mike Johnson and U.S. Representative Nancy Mace. Quiet, Piggy.— Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) 2025-11-18T13:30:52.321Z Quiet Piggy. — Amanda Weaver (@amandaweavernovels.com) 2025-11-18T16:50:48.163Z Over on X, Governor Gavin Newsom is among the many users adding a body-shaming component to the catchphrase, tweeting unflattering photos of the president along with it. Quiet, piggy. pic.twitter.com/RIKsI4iDjV— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) November 18, 2025 Quiet, piggy. pic.twitter.com/3uOoRnjGpX— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) November 18, 2025 Quiet, piggy pic.twitter.com/CKORVzGGpG— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) November 18, 2025 Meanwhile, some TikTok users are also posting unflattering images of the president to accompany the insult, and others are posting AI-generated images of the president, alternately as Miss Piggy or as himself yelling at Miss Piggy. If social media users seem especially eager to weaponize Quiet, Piggy by reflecting it back at the president, its likely because of how well this outburst fits in with Trumps previous behavior. Trump has a documented history of calling women like Rosie ODonnell and former Miss Universe Alicia Machado pigsalong with dogs, slobs and disgusting animals. He also has a more recent and pointed history of insulting and berating journalists. Just after the 2016 election, 60 Minutes journalist Lesley Stahl reportedly said that Trump told her the reason he regularly bashes reporters is to demean and discredit them so that the public will not believe negative stories about him. And Trump continued to insult journalists in his tone-setting first post-election press conference, refusing to take a question from CNN reporter Jim Acosta and telling him: You are fake news. Over the course of his initial term, Trump would escalate attacks on press that seemed to be insufficiently friendly, deeming them the enemy of the people. He seemed to harbor a special animosity, though, toward journalists who happened to be women. In one typically fiery exchange with CNNs Abby Phillip in 2018, for instance, Trump responded to Phillips question about then-Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller by saying: What a stupid question that is. What a stupid question. But I watch you a lot, you ask a lot of stupid questions. In his second term, Trump appears even more committed to attacking reporters for asking questions hed prefer not rceive. He regularly refuses to answer questions, tells reporters Youre not supposed to be asking that, or calls them obnoxious and very evil for asking anyway. Indeed, the whole TACO Trump attack over the summer, which accused the president of Always Chickening Out on tariffs, would likely not have blown up to the level it did had Trump not told a reporter who asked him about it: Dont ever say what you said. Still, despite Trump having been extra combative with reporters all year, he has lately seemed even more prickly with an uptick in questions about his connection to Jeffrey Epstein. Trump on Epstein Files: I dont want to talk about it because fake news like youyoure a terrible reporterfake news like you just keeps bringing up to deflect from the tremendous success of The Trump Admin pic.twitter.com/rZjobTujCN— Acyn (@Acyn) November 16, 2025 Trump: Will you let me finish? You are the worst. Youre with Bloomberg right? You are the worst. I dont know why they even have you. pic.twitter.com/mTmZ77KTYv— Acyn (@Acyn) November 17, 2025 When an ABC reporter asked Trump about the Epstein files on Tuesday, during the course of this writing, Trump responded by saying, I think the license should be taken away from ABC, and urging FCC chairman Brendan Carr to look at that. As heated as Trump can get when asked about this issue, though, Quiet, Piggy stands out as an exceedingly juvenile and degrading insult. Many social media users have been speculating about why the schoolyard name-calling went unchallenged in the moment; why Jacobss fellow reporters didnt make sure her question got answered or demand an apology on her behalf. Perhaps its the absence of any heroes aboard Air Force One, though, that has inspired social media users to push back on Trumps hogwash themselves.
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Microsoft said Tuesday it is partnering with artificial intelligence company Anthropic and chipmaker Nvidia as part of a cloud infrastructure deal that moves the software giant further away from its longtime alliance with OpenAI. Anthropic, maker of the chatbot Claude that competes with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, said it is committed to buying $30 billion in computing capacity from Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing platform. As part of the partnership, Nvidia will also invest up to $10 billion in Anthropic, and Microsoft will invest up to $5 billion in the San Francisco-based startup. The joint announcements by CEOs Dario Amodei of Anthropic, Satya Nadella of Microsoft, and Jensen Huang of Nvidia came just ahead of the opening of Microsoft’s annual Ignite developer conference. This is all about deepening our commitment to bringing the best infrastructure, model choice and applications to our customers, Nadella said on a video call with the other two executives, adding that it builds on the critical partnership Microsoft still has with OpenAI. Microsoft was, until earlier this year, the exclusive cloud provider for OpenAI and made the technology behind ChatGPT the foundation for its own AI assistant, Copilot. But the two companies moved farther apart and their business agreements were amended as OpenAI increasingly sought to secure its own cloud capacity through big deals with Oracle, SoftBank, and other data center developers and chipmakers. Asked in September if OpenAI could do more with those new computing partnerships than it could with Microsoft, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told The Associated Press his company was severely limited for the value we can offer to people. At the same time, Microsoft holds a roughly 27% stake in the new for-profit corporation that OpenAI, founded as a nonprofit, is forming to advance its commercial ambitions as the world’s most valuable startup. Anthropic, founded by ex-OpenAI leaders in 2021, said Claude will now be the only frontier model available to customers of the three biggest cloud computing providers: Amazon, which remains Anthropic’s primary cloud provider, and Google and Microsoft. AI products like Claude and ChatGPT take huge amounts of energy and computing power to build and operate, and neither OpenAI nor Anthropic is yet turning a profit. As part of the deal, Nvidia said Anthropic will have access to up to a gigawatt of capacity from its specialized AI chips. Huang said he’s admired the work of Anthropic and Dario for a long time, and this is the first time we are going to deeply partner with Anthropic to accelerate Claude. Matt O’Brien, AP technology writer
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National Public Radio will receive approximately $36 million in grant money to operate the nations public radio interconnection system under the terms of a court settlement with the federal government’s steward of funding for public broadcasting stations. The settlement, announced late Monday, partially resolves a legal dispute in which NPR accused the Corporation for Public Broadcasting of bowing to pressure from President Donald Trump to cut off its funding. On March 25, Trump said at a news conference that he would love to defund NPR and PBS because he believes they are biased in favor of Democrats. NPR accused the CPB of violating its First Amendment free speech rights when it moved to cut off its access to grant money appropriated by Congress. NPR also claims Trump, a Republican, wants to punish it for the content of its journalism. On April 2, the CPBs board initially approved a three-year, roughly $36 million extension of a grant for NPR to operate the interconnection satellite system for public radio. NPR has been operating and managing the Public Radio Satellite System since 1985. But the CPB reversed course under mounting pressure from the Trump administration, according to NPR. The agency redirected federal interconnection funds away from NPR to an entity that didnt exist and wasnt statutorily authorized to receive it, NPR says. CPB attorneys denied that the agency retaliated against NPR to appease Trump. They had argued that NPRs claims are factually and legally meritless. On May 1, Trump issued an executive order that called for federal agencies to stop funding for NPR and PBS. The settlement doesnt end a lawsuit in which NPR seeks to block any implementation or enforcement of Trump’s executive order. U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss is scheduled to preside over another hearing for the case on Dec. 4. The settlement says NPR and CPB agree that the executive order is unconstitutional and that CPB won’t enforce it unless a court orders it to do so. Katherine Maher, NPR’s president and CEO, said the settlement is a victory for editorial independence and a step toward upholding the First Amendment rights of NPR and the public media system.” Patricia Harrison, the corporations CEO, said in a statement that the settlement marks an important moment for public media. Michael Kunzelman, Associated Press
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