Post by miles on Aug 21, 2019 17:51:13 GMT
Kerry Eleveld on Daily Kos:
After Donald Trump ludicrously ditched visiting with Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen because she said she wasn't game to sell Greenland to the United States, Trump is raging about the whole episode.
Frederiksen called the idea “absurd” and stated she had "no interest in discussing the purchase of Greenland.” Speaking with reporters outside the White House Wednesday, Trump responded, “You don't talk to the United States that way.” Apparently, ‘No, we're not the least bit interested in auctioning off Greenland’ is some sort of abominable slight to Trump. In other words, Trump makes unwanted advance, woman rejects unwanted advance. Trump, having no way to force his own will on her, erupts.
Trump is clearly unraveling before our very eyes (as if he was ever raveled, as it were). But he reserves special vehemence for rejections by women. How dare a woman refuse him his wishes!
On Tuesday, Trump ripped into Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib, who had cried during a press conference in which she explained her decision not to go to Israel to visit her 90-year-old grandmother who lives in the occupied West Bank.
“Yesterday, I noticed for the first time, Tlaib with the tears,” Trump said. “All of the sudden, she starts with tears, tears … I don’t buy it for a second, because I’ve seen her in a very vicious mood at campaign rallies, my campaign rallies, before she was a congresswoman. I said, ‘Who is that?’ And I saw a woman that was violent and vicious and out of control.”
As the Washington Post noted, "It was unclear what Trump was referring to in his statement Tuesday regarding violence by Tlaib."
Honestly, why not just label all women who won't do what you want them to do “b*tches” and be done with it? Because that’s what it all comes down to for Trump: Women should do what they’re told and if they don’t, they’re “nasty.”
This is so blatant, his open contempt for women. Is this part of what attracts his best demographic, white working class men without college? White working class women (with and without college) are less thrilled.
After Donald Trump ludicrously ditched visiting with Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen because she said she wasn't game to sell Greenland to the United States, Trump is raging about the whole episode.
Frederiksen called the idea “absurd” and stated she had "no interest in discussing the purchase of Greenland.” Speaking with reporters outside the White House Wednesday, Trump responded, “You don't talk to the United States that way.” Apparently, ‘No, we're not the least bit interested in auctioning off Greenland’ is some sort of abominable slight to Trump. In other words, Trump makes unwanted advance, woman rejects unwanted advance. Trump, having no way to force his own will on her, erupts.
Trump is clearly unraveling before our very eyes (as if he was ever raveled, as it were). But he reserves special vehemence for rejections by women. How dare a woman refuse him his wishes!
On Tuesday, Trump ripped into Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib, who had cried during a press conference in which she explained her decision not to go to Israel to visit her 90-year-old grandmother who lives in the occupied West Bank.
“Yesterday, I noticed for the first time, Tlaib with the tears,” Trump said. “All of the sudden, she starts with tears, tears … I don’t buy it for a second, because I’ve seen her in a very vicious mood at campaign rallies, my campaign rallies, before she was a congresswoman. I said, ‘Who is that?’ And I saw a woman that was violent and vicious and out of control.”
As the Washington Post noted, "It was unclear what Trump was referring to in his statement Tuesday regarding violence by Tlaib."
Honestly, why not just label all women who won't do what you want them to do “b*tches” and be done with it? Because that’s what it all comes down to for Trump: Women should do what they’re told and if they don’t, they’re “nasty.”
This is so blatant, his open contempt for women. Is this part of what attracts his best demographic, white working class men without college? White working class women (with and without college) are less thrilled.
