Filthy Mouthed Wife

Overview

Filthy Mouthed Wife refers to an insult lodged by United States President Donald Trump toward media personality and model Chrissy Teigen on Twitter. The comment sparked a public response from Teigen, who referred to the President as a "pussy ass bitch" for not tagging her in his Twitter post.

Background

On September 8th, 2019, President Trump tweeted^[1] about a special report on MSNBC about criminal justice reform, complaining about not getting credit by those in the special. During his tweets, he referred to Teigen as musician John Legend's "filthy mouthed wife" (tweets below).

Legend responded to the tweet,^[3] "Imagine being president of a whole country and spending your Sunday night hate-watching MSNBC hoping somebody--ANYBODY--will praise you. Melania, please praise this man. He needs you." The tweet received more than 187,000 likes and 27,000 retweets in 24 hours (shown below, left).

Teigen responded on Twitter,^[2] writing, "lol what a pussy ass bitch. tagged everyone but me. an honor, mister president." The tweet received more than 477,000 likes and 77,000 retweets in 24 hours (shown below).

Developments

Online Reaction

Following the tweets, people online joked about the feud, particularly Teigen's response. For example, Twitter user @minygrande recapped the feud and added a video of Nicki Minaj laughing. The tweet received more than 47,000 likes and 10,000 retweets (shown below).

Trump referred to Chrissy Teigen as a “filthy mouthed wife” so she called him a “pussy ass bitch”

pic.twitter.com/8s7clFGEbI

— risa (@minygrande) September 9, 2019

Teigen's husband, musician John Legend, encouraged people to tweet the hashtag "#PresidentPussyAssBitch," which began trending shortly after. He wrote,^[4] "Please don't make this foul mouthed hashtag trend #PresidentPussyAssBitch." Within 24 hours, the tweet received more than 86,000 likes and 23,000 retweets (shown below, left).

Others two voiced their support for Teigen by using the hashtag (examples below, center).

Teigen tweeted^[5] about the feud a second time, writing, "Luna, remember the night before your first day of school? When mommy was making your sign and the pussy ass bitch president had his 9th meltdown of the day." The tweet received more tahn 220,000 likes and 20,000 retweets in 24 hours (shown below, right).

That evening,Twitter user @skolanach tweeted a video that depicted Trump being escorted off a stage after someone in the crowd yells, "Hey, Donald! Chrissy Teigen's here!" The tweet received more than 95,000 likes and 20,000 retweets in 24 hours. Snopes^[6] later wrote that the video was doctored.

Donald Trump vs. Chrissy Teigen (sound up) pic.twitter.com/RMQi12VFID

— ElElegante101 (@skolanach) September 9, 2019

Media Coverage

Several media outlets covered the feud, including The Root,^[7] USA Today,^[8] CNN,^[9] The Hill,^[10] Esquire,^[11] The New York Times,^[12] Yahoo^[13] and more.

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