The White House doubled down Wednesday after two incidents in which President Donald Trump angrily confronted female reporters from US news outlets.

It called ABC News a "Democrat spin operation masquerading as a broadcast network" after Trump lashed out at TV correspondent Mary Bruce in the Oval Office on Tuesday.

And after Trump said "quiet, piggy" to Bloomberg reporter Catherine Lucey on Air Force One on Friday, the White House said that "if you're going to give it, you have to be able to take."

The verbal assaults were markedly harsh even for Trump, renowned for his confrontational approach to what he calls the "fake news."

He reacted furiously during a White House visit by Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Tuesday when ABC's Bruce posed questions about the murder

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