Chrissy Teigen

Trump's been called far worse than a "pussy ass bitch," so why was that the insult that broke the Cheeto's back?

[James Harbeck](https://jamesharbeck.com/) is one of the founders of [Strong Language](https://stronglang.wordpress.com/), a blog about swearing. “Some of this is just Trump being unpredictable, right?” Holliday concluded. At one point in its history, back in the 1500s, pussy was actually a nice word for a young woman—although it also meant vagina—but it started to be used as an insult implying cowardice, femininity, and homosexuality around the end of the 19th century. [ the -ass suffix](https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2018/01/25/a-paradoxical-ass-word/) [ than you’d think](https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=36421), too. [U bum](https://twitter.com/KingJames/status/911610455877021697).” John Oliver [compared](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/john-oliver-trump-best-insults-videos-928449/last-week-tonight-host-compares-trumps-privates-to-cheetos/) Trump’s genitals to a Cheeto “with the dust rubbed off,” and the magazine Spy called him a “ [short-fingered vulgarian](https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/03/how-donald-trump-became-the-short-fingered-vulgarian)”—an insult that’s been kicking around for three decades. After being called a “filthy-mouthed wife,” it was only fitting that Teigen would respond in kind. Teigen “was able to, in one tweet, use both a noun and an adjective that conveyed this weak femininity that she was trying to project on him,” Holliday said. “I think it’s hilarious,” Sierra said, marveling that it was this tweet that sent him over the edge. But this week, we got some conclusive evidence, or rather, conclusive-ass evidence: It’s now a matter of congressional record that in 2019, the Trump White House tried to pressure Twitter to delete a tweet in which Chrissy Teigen called the president, and I quote, “a pussy ass bitch.” “This is the whole Michelle Obama ‘When they go low, we go high’ thing,” Holliday said. In the hearing, Anika Collier Navaroli, who worked in content moderation at Twitter, responded to Connolly’s question by confirming, “I do remember hearing that we had received a request from the White House to make sure that we evaluated this tweet, and that they wanted it to come down because it was a derogatory statement directed towards the president.” She went on to read the tweet in full when prompted by another congressman. Twitter users were always churning out new jabs, too— [one popular one](https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2015/12/mysterious-origins-of-the-best-trump-joke.html) was that Trump “looks like the villain in a movie where the hero is a dog.” This isn’t even getting into all the serious criminal allegations that have been leveled at him: There are [four criminal probes going on right now alone](https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/23306941/donald-trump-crimes-criminal-investigation-mar-a-lago-fbi-january-6-election-georgia-new-york), and he’s [been accused of sexual misconduct by more than 25 women](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_sexual_misconduct_allegations#:~:text=Donald%20Trump%2C%20the%20president%20of,25%20women%20since%20the%201970s.).