Bill Maher confronts Lara Trump as she denies POTUS' ‘piggy’ remark to reporter on Air Force One

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: On Monday, November 24, an episode of Bill Maher’s podcast 'Club Random' featured a striking exchange between the host and Lara Trump, the wife of Eric Trump.

Maher confronted her about a controversial remark allegedly made by President Donald Trump aboard Air Force One.

The remark in question - “Quiet, piggy!” was directed at Bloomberg correspondent Catherine Lucey asking about the recently released Epstein mails.

Bill Maher’s confronts Lara Trump

Maher pressed Lara on the exchange between Trump and Lucey that took place on November 14 during a press briefing aboard Air Force One. 

According to Maher, Lucey asked about the ongoing Epstein files, whereupon Trump snapped, “Quiet, piggy!”

The moment drew widespread backlash; his supporters and even members of his own cabinet moved swiftly to defend or reinterpret the remark with some claiming the president actually said “Peggy” instead of “piggy.”

During the show, Maher mentioned that he was working on an editorial suggesting that liberals should “get over yourselves” and “eat with your family, even the ones who are Trump voters.”

He argued that such a remark from the president made that message harder to carry. Maher said, “Don’t do things like call a woman, ‘piggy.’” 

Lara responded to Maher’s accusations by questioning the authenticity of the “piggy” remark. 

She responded with, “Do we know that happened?” to which Maher countered “I saw it on tape a thousand” and Lara interrupted jokingly “Or did he say, ‘McGee’?”

Maher returned to his point “It just makes my job more difficult when, during this week, he says to a woman, ‘Piggy.’ I mean, even you must admit this is just not cool, not necessary.” 

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She went on to make a broader point about her father in law being an “equal-opportunity offender,” citing his criticism of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as evidence.

Maher further focusing on the comment asked her “Even you must admit this is just not cool, not necessary.”

To which she acknowledged “Donald Trump is not perfect, But he does a lot of things that I think are great. And I think that overall you got to take some of the good with the bad.”

The White House also defended Trump’s remarks aimed at the reporter. "This reporter behaved in an inappropriate and unprofessional way toward her colleagues on the plane, if you’re going to give it, you have to be able to take,” an official said in a statement. 

Trump previously strongly resisted the release of the Epstein files. 

However, he later changed his stance and approved a bill requiring the Justice Department to disclose them, even though he could have done so without needing Congress’s consent.