DID DONALD TRUMP FINALLY GO TOO FAR?

…Will this New York Senator be a 2020 Democratic Presidential Candidate

 

 

Why is the president so vicious against women, much more than he is with men?

 

Regardless that fortunately the Democrat, Doug Jones, had a surprise win in Alabama, it was still disgusting having to follow what went on with that Senatorial election in Alabama.

 

However, what temporarily took the attention off of that event in the deep South, was the atrocious tweet from our commander-in-chief about the female senator from New York.

 

As bad as the Trumpster can be, this time it appears he really “jumped the shark” when he tweeted the following: “Lightweight Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, a total flunky for Chuck Schumer and someone who would come to my office “begging” for campaign contributions not so long ago, and she would do ‘anything’ for them, is now in the ring fighting against Trump. Very disloyal to Bill & Crooked-USED!”

 

As the term “jumped the shark” implies, Trump may have just taken his tweeting rhetoric to a whole new low.

 

Many now believe that this latest disgusting Trump-Tweet at Senator Gillibrand, could mark the beginning of a major #MeToo backlash.

 

Already, there are scores of Americans that are totally disgusted with the president and his tweets.  But this latest event has Trump propelling the female New York Senator to a new level of prominence within the Democratic party.  It is actually appearing to have made her a national heroine.

 

As of that tweet, just as Senator's Chuck Schumer and Cory Booker have been out on the stump for helping other young Democratic candidates in local and state special elections, I would suspect that you will now see Ms. Gillibrand showing up to help some Democratic candidates across the country.

 

But the other issue today is that many prominent men in government, the media, entertainers and actors as well as some in the restaurant business are being accused of various forms of sexual harassment and abuse.  Unfortunately, we’ve gotten used to a certain kind of statement that the men make when their harassment news breaks. Sometimes they deny the accusations, sometimes they apologize if their behavior stepped over the line, sometimes they take complete responsibility.  However, nearly all of them are sure to include words asserting their belief that women deserve to be free of harassment in their work and personal lives.

 

That is, all but one powerful man.

 

That individual is our current US President.

 

This week, three of the more than a dozen women who have accused the president of various forms of sexual harassment and sexual abuse, they renewed their call for an investigation into all the claims against him. Trump’s response, as usual, is that they are all liars.  He says that, even about those who are saying he did what he himself had said on the Access Hollywood tape.  That he bragged about his ability to do disgusting things to attractive women with total impunity. He never says that any women should be treated with respect. He does not even pay lip service to the values of women’s equality. As usual, being a counter-puncher, he just attacks them all.  In fact, he is particularly vicious against mostly women, much more than he is with men.

 

Trump has tweeted that the Democrats are promoting “the false accusations and fabricated stories of women who I don’t know and/or have never met. FAKE NEWS!”

 

This is just one of Trump’s “Fact-Checked 5 ½ lies per day.”  Ashley Parker, White House reporter for the Washington Post, has noted that this was just another Trump falsehood.  Per Ms. Parker: “The list of women accusing Trump of sexual abuse includes a former ‘Apprentice’ contestant, and a former business partner, and a woman who has a photo of the two of them together.  It also includes a contestant in one of his teen pageants and a People Magazine reporter who interviewed him for People.”  He did know all of them.

 

This is apparently the part where some would say that Trump’s tweet words were just vague enough that he might not be saying what he seems to be saying.  Maybe when he said she [Gillibrand] “would do anything” for a campaign contribution, Trump was only implying that Gillibrand would just promise to support her donors’ favored legislation …….or was he implying the obvious?

 

Oh, let’s not try to fool ourselves.  Based on the Access Hollywood video, we all know what he was saying. In so many words, the president basically just shouted “Whore!” at a successful, well respected, female US Senator.

 

Gillibrand's office's responded to the president with a masterpiece of political wrangling. A Gillibrand aide had said she was attending a bipartisan bible study group at the moment Trump tweeted.  Later, speaking to reporters, Gillibrand just shook her head and called Trump's tweet “a typical sexist smear.”  She also called it, “slut-shaming”, as she responded to the president saying, “You cannot silence me or the millions of American women.”

 

Unfortunately, Republican support for the Senate candidate Roy Moore of Alabama shows that the #MeToo moment has yet to become a national movement.  But Gillibrand is functioning as a surrogate for Trump’s accusers.

 

There is also another closely related message here, and an important one for Trump.  He is saying with his “sexist smear” that, “I could have had her.” This is a longstanding pattern of Trump’s, to make public proclamations about the women of which, he either did or could have had sex.  It’s also the mark of a desperately insecure man, and it’s something Trump has been doing for decades.

 

As we saw when all the accusations against him came in, Trump displayed his dominance over women who had criticized him.  He does this by him questioning whether he even wanted to have sex with them. But mainly he usually says they were too unattractive and just didn’t measure up to his requirements.

 

Trump even took this approach with Hillary Clinton. After he had debated her, he told his supporters at one of his rallies, “When she walked in front of me, believe me I wasn’t impressed.” In what went on in the campaign, you may have missed that Trump proclaimed his displeasure with the quality of his opponent’s rear end.

 

When Trump responds to charges of sexual harassment by claiming that a US Senator would have traded sex with him for money, he’s telling every man who doesn’t appreciate this talk about sexual harassment and abuse: “To hell with these women. They think they can tell us what we can and can’t do to them. But we’ll show them.”

 

However, a number of feminist writers have warned us that there will be a backlash to the #MeToo movement. 

 

But what will that backlash look like?

 

One idea is that for all those women that put their stories on the #MeToo site.  You know, those that had been afraid to stand up and take on their harassers.  They will be asked: “Why they didn’t immediately make their complaints known? Why didn’t they go after the men in question?”

 

Apparently, it is expected that those involved in the backlash will not take into consideration that the accusers life, job, or reputation could easily be threatened.  They’ll say this the woman's problem for being a weak female that doesn’t have the guts to take on powerful men.

If it does come to that, there’s now little doubt that the current resident in the White House will be the one leading the #MeToo backlash.

 

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