Donald Trump's niece, Mary Trump, has hit out at the president for a "wildly inappropriate and despicable" remark.

While speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, the president interrupted a Bloomberg News journalist who was asking a follow-up question on the Jeffrey Epstein files. He told the journalist, "Quiet. Quiet, piggy." The remark has horrified members of the public, and Mary Trump, the niece of the president, has said these comments are "par for the course".

In a video posted to X, Mary Trump said, "Donald is a lifelong, hardcore misogynist, so he doesn't really like it when women ask him difficult questions." Mary Trump then shared the clip of Trump saying "quiet, piggy" to the Bloomberg News reporter. She added after the clip, "Now obviously that was wildly inappropriate and despicable, but it's also par for the course."

"I'd say that the only pig in that scenario is Donald. But actual pigs are intelligent and affectionate creatures, while Donald is just a vile, corrupt criminal who, also, unlike pigs, has absolutely nothing of value to contribute to the world."

The White House has flatly refused to condemn Trump for the comment made on Air Force One, instead suggesting reporter Catherine Lucey was to blame for the comment. Lucey had asked the president why he was being defensive over the Epstein files question "if there's nothing incriminating in the files."

A White House official speaking to The Guardian said, "This reporter behaved in an inappropriate and unprofessional way towards her colleagues on the plane. If you're going to give it, you have to be able to take it."

David Urban, a GOP strategist, was asked about a comment Trump made to a reporter on Air Force One on Monday during an interview on CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360."

"There's no excuse for that, right? No excuse for calling anybody piggy," Urban said on Tuesday. "It's my understanding that one reporter interrupted another reporter. The president got angry with that. And it was two female reporters. But again, no excuse for calling anybody those names. It's just it's kind of silly and distracts from so many things."