Digested week: Trump’s weird ‘piggy’ jibe expands his cutesy-sinister lexicon

Plus Vanity Fair's plucky decision to feature only men in its Hollywood Issue and the reporter fired after RFK Jr sexting scandal'

We've all said things that didn't come out right, and it's my instinct - stand by for some counter-intuition! - that Donald Trump's quiet, piggy" admonishment of a female reporter on Air Force One this week was a very weird attempt at affection, or possibly flirtation. As with everything the man does, the effect was disastrous and totally inappropriate. But rewatching the video, I saw from the president less an example of his usual bigotry and more an attempt at what looked like OK, kiddo" cuteness that, catastrophically, and before I could nip it in the bud, had triggered a tiny sprig of sympathy.