HUD official calls journalist April Ryan ‘Miss Piggy’ on Twitter, April Ryan claps back
January 25, 2018April Ryan is White House correspondent and bureau chief for American Urban Radio Network. She’s held that position for years, and she’s been in the White House press room, day after day, through a few administrations. She does the Lord’s work, trying to get answers from Sean Spicer and The Mooch and now Sarah Huckabee Sanders, and because Ryan is a woman of color with questions, the Deplorables in and out of government absolutely loathe her. One of those Deplorables is named Lynne Patton. Patton was an event planner for Trump, helping to organize one of the Trump sons’ weddings and putting together golf tournaments on Trump properties. Now Patton works for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, I sh-t you not. And Lynne Patton is a petty, thin-skinned bully, just like her boss.
An event planner appointed by President Donald Trump to a key position at the Department of Housing and Urban Development has apologized after insulting a journalist on Wednesday. Lynne Patton, who oversees billions of dollars in federal funds as head of the agency’s New York and New Jersey office, had called April Ryan “Miss Piggy.”
Patton later apologized, writing: “I deleted my last tweet by choice. No one from this Administration contacted me. It was beneath me & I apologize to @AprilDRyan. My parents raised me to respect others & I regret my response. I apologize to them, @SecretaryCarson & the Trump family. They deserved better.”
However, some of Patton’s other other tweets directed at Ryan remain online, including two calling her a “a blogger working for a bankrupt outlet.”
Is anyone else secretly a little bit grateful that the insult wasn’t super-racist? I guess that’s because Lynne Patton is a woman of color too. But seriously, Lynne Patton is in the Sunken Place. Here’s the now-deleted tweet:
But the best part was probably April’s clapbacks. This is like an old-fashioned Twitter war of yore.
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