I have often longed to “have words with someone,” but rarely do. Being a conflict-avoidant person, I try to calm down before I confront anyone. My first step is usually to write something with the intention of sending it as an email or letter, usually to one of my kids or a friend who upset me. Recently, I went through these unsent letters and deleted them from my computer. No sense making waves after I’m gone.
Leaving aside his despicable political views and deeds, there is no way I would want this creep to protect me. He’s a gross, misogynistic pig.
There is one person, however, with whom I can no longer restrain myself from having words: Donald Trump. Never have I despised a politician more, and that’s saying a lot since I hated Richard Nixon. But Trump is far worse, which was unimaginable before 2015.
At several recent rallies, Trump has said that he will be a “protector” of women. If I vote for him, “You will no longer be thinking about abortion … because we’ve done something that nobody else could have done. It is now where it always had to be, with the states and a vote of the people.” He has claimed that women are “poorer, less healthy, less safe, more stressed, depressed and unhappy” than we were four years ago. Now, “women will be happy, healthy, confident and free,” and our “lives will be happy, beautiful, and … great again.” Trump reassures me that he will take good care of women.
This man who has been found liable for the rape of E. Jean Carroll, also told us in in the infamous Access Hollywood tape, “I better use some tic-tacs just in case I start kissing her. You know, I’m automatically attracted to beautiful — I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab ’em by the pussy.”
He also shared in the same tape, “I moved on her, actually. You know, she was down on Palm Beach. I moved on her, and I failed. I’ll admit it … I did try and fuck her. She was married … I moved on her like a bitch. But I couldn’t get there. And she was married. Then all of a sudden, I see her, she’s now got the big phony tits and everything. She’s totally changed her look.”
He had a 10-month affair with Karen McDougal, Playboy’s Playmate of the Year for 1998, six months after he married Melania. The Access Hollywood tape was recorded shortly after their marriage as well. Then he slept with porn star Stormy Daniels when Melania had just given birth to their son. Of course, she knew what she was getting into because he had divorced Marla Maples, who Trump married two months after she gave birth to their daughter Tiffany. His affair with Maples ended his marriage to wife #1, Ivana.
From 1996 to 2015, Donald Trump co-owned the Miss Universe Organization, which also included the Miss U.S.A. and Miss Teen U.S.A. pageants. He told radio host Howard Stern in 2005 that he went backstage during a Miss USA or Miss Universe pageant when the contestants were naked. “No men are anywhere, and I’m allowed to go in, because I’m the owner of the pageant and therefore I’m inspecting it. … You know, they’re standing there with no clothes … And you see these incredible-looking women, and so I sort of get away with things like that.”
According to the New York Times, “Depending on how you count them, 19 or 67 women have accused Mr. Trump of sexual misconduct. Women who have said he “squeezed my butt,” “eyed me like a piece of meat,” “stuck his hand up my skirt,” “thrust his genitals,” “forced his tongue in my mouth,” was “rummaging around my vagina,” and so on.”
The Washington Post, a reviewer of All the President’s Women: Donald Trump and the Making of a Predator, describes the book as “a deep dive into the many allegations that depict Trump’s relationships with women as vulgar, misogynistic, demeaning, sometimes violent and always puerile. The accusations wash over a reader like a tidal wave of sewage until you are thoroughly caked in muck and lightheaded from the stink.”
Leaving aside his despicable political views and deeds, there is no way I would want this creep to protect me. I don’t understand how any woman could vote for the man who bragged about appointing Supreme Court judges to get rid of Roe v. Wade. He’s a gross, misogynistic pig. Word.
Laurie LevyBoomer. Educator. Advocate. Eclectic topics: grandkids, special needs, values, aging, loss, & whatever. Author: Terribly Strange and Wonderfully Real.
I have been re-introduced to hate.
Sorry, Kevin. I’m usually a very nice woman.
Laurie, how any woman ~ any man or any human being for that matter – could have voted for him after the Hollywood Access bus incident is beyond me – but of course bodes ill for half the people in our country.
Sadly it does. Like you, I just don’t get it.
Right f’ing on, Laura!!! You pretty much covered the whole swamp, little hands and all.
I do ask one further question of us all: Has anyone read any coverage, or heard any mention of the circumstances surrounding the accidental death of Ivana, the night before she was scheduled to testify in the 34-count Stormy Daniels trial?
But how do you REALLY feel about it Laurie LOL—well said!!! Charles—one does wonder about the “fall down the stairs” that Ivana suffered, and her subsequent ignominious internment at the orange one’s golf club. I would put nothing past the “protector of women”.
Oh yes, I left that one out. Actually, I cold have gone on for pages. Don’t understand how any woman could vote for Trump.