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Kyler Alvord
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Politics Editor @People
Run-of-the-mill press conferences and casual Q&As with reporters have turned harsh, and published stories have been picked apart. Throughout the chaos, it's the women of the White House press corps who have borne the brunt of President Trump's ire.
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'Piggy,' 'Ugly' and 'Terrible Person': Donald Trump Ramps Up Attacks on Women in the White House Press Corps
President Donald Trump has had several tense encounters with the White House press corps in recent weeks, particularly with female reporters, including one who he called 'piggy' and another who he des...
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November 26, 2025 at 11:26 PM
The White House is doubling down in support of Donald Trump after he attacked a female reporter's appearance because she co-wrote a story about his "signs of fatigue" as a 79-year-old president.

The statement they shared with @people.com:
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White House Defends Donald Trump for Calling Female Reporter 'Ugly,' Insisting Americans Like His 'Transparency'
After President Donald Trump referred to a female reporter as 'ugly, both inside and out,' the White House issued a statement to PEOPLE that defended his 'transparency.' The president targeted The New...
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November 26, 2025 at 7:14 PM
During one of Trump's earliest public feuds in 1987, NYC Mayor Ed Koch referred to his rival as "piggy, piggy, piggy, piggy Donald Trump."

Decades later, Trump recycled the barnyard insult to hush a reporter, uttering one of the most shocking lines from a U.S. president
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Donald Trump Once Received the Same 'Piggy' Insult He Hurled at Reporter
During a nasty public feud in the '80s, N.Y.C. Mayor Ed Koch ridiculed Donald Trump as a greedy "piggy." Decades later, at the peak of his power, Trump repurposed the stunning insult to hush a journal...
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November 26, 2025 at 12:23 PM
You've seen the alleged quote: "If I were to run, I'd run as a Republican. They're the dumbest group of voters in the country. They believe anything on Fox News. I could lie and they'd still eat it up..."

But did Trump *really* tell @people.com that in 1998?
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No, Donald Trump Didn't Tell PEOPLE Magazine That Republicans Are the 'Dumbest Group of Voters' in 1998. Behind the Viral Fake Quote
There's a pesky meme that routinely pops up on social media, claiming Donald Trump slammed Republican voters in a 1998 PEOPLE magazine interview. We scoured our archives again and determined that the ...
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November 21, 2025 at 10:33 PM
PEOPLE can confirm that the Obamas are not expected at Dick Cheney's funeral this morning, joining a list of prominent public figures who will not be at the service.
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Obamas Are Skipping Dick Cheney's Funeral After Michelle's Previous Absences This Year
Barack and Michelle Obama will not be in attendance at Dick Cheney's funeral on Nov. 20, a source familiar tells PEOPLE. It's common but not necessarily expected for former first couples to attend a v...
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November 20, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Have seen Qs about whether the clip is AI - we always double-check that bc you never know these days!

The moment comes early in this AF1 press gaggle vid that we embedded, shortly after 00:45, from the White House YouTube page. Gaggles are typically posted there for the public: youtu.be/9LcBiPnvqPc
November 18, 2025 at 4:27 AM
South Park's Trey Parker told
NYT: "It's not that we got all political. It's that politics became pop culture." This really applies to all media

US division and the recent govt makeover have put politics into every convo & there's no outlet that can capture pop-cult rn w/o also capturing politics⤵️
November 16, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Jack Schlossberg just made NY-12's race to replace Nadler a lot more interesting. Our @people.com story on how the 32-year-old Kennedy heir got to this moment:
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November 12, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Reposted by Kyler Alvord
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The Trump administration could begin denying visas to people for being overweight, according to a new report.
📷: Getty
November 11, 2025 at 10:08 PM
New, chance discovery by our @people.com team confirmed via records request: JD Vance voted in the Cincy general while his brother was on the ballot, but he surprisingly voted by 📬

His boss is currently trying to squash the popular option w/ false claims of "massive" fraud👇
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Vice President JD Vance Voted By Mail in Ohio General Election as Trump Seeks to End Mail-in Voting
Vice President JD Vance voted absentee in the Ohio general election, according to voting records, despite President Donald Trump's years-long campaign against mail-in voting.
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November 7, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Zohran Mamdani is projected to defeat Andrew Cuomo's campaign for a second time this year. How he did it:
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Zohran Mamdani, 34, Defeats Andrew Cuomo to Become N.Y.C.’s First Muslim Mayor in Historic Election
Democrat Zohran Mamdani won the New York City mayoral race on Tuesday, Nov. 4, defeating former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who ran as an independent. Mamdani will become the city's first Muslim and f...
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November 5, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Painful to see another politics team gutted. Journalists have a duty to bring audiences in on the national convo, & in a news environment increasingly dominated by politics, some pop culture mags broadened their scope to fully capture the moment for readers who only passively consume hard news [...]
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 4, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts, who said he was privately rooting for Vance to be VP, said the first-term Ohio senator "is absolutely going to be one of the leaders — if not the leader — of our movement."
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J.D. Vance Isn't the Bridge-Building VP That Moderates Wanted: What He's Said About Women, Voting and Project 2025
J.D. Vance, the 2024 Republican vice presidential nominee, was once a self-proclaimed 'never Trump guy.' Now, the junior Ohio senator is moving the Republican ticket to the fringes. Here's what he's s...
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July 17, 2024 at 11:33 PM