By Clay Jones
Donald Trump has a serious issue with women. He likes them enough to grab ’em without permission, marry them, breed with them, divorce them, marry another one, repeat, and squeeze them in an awkwardly uncomfortable way if they’re his daughter. But, he does not respect women at all.
I would say he especially doesn’t like women who are smarter than him, but basically anyone who can walk upright and read at a fourth-grade level is smarter than Trump. But, he just loses his shit when a smart woman criticizes him.
Taking on a critic is one thing, but when you look at the list of women Trump has gone after, and usually for their looks, shows the guy truly is a sexist pig.
Trump has gone after the looks and health of Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor. His list of celebrities includes Rosie O’Donnell, Angelina Jolie, Katarina Witt, Anne Hathaway, Cher, Heidi Klum, and Arianna Huffington.
Women in the press tend to be extremely intelligent and since they work with facts, Trump hates them too. He’s attacked Katy Tur (even tried to sic his crowds on her), Megyn Kelly, Mika Brzezinski, Gail Collins, Maureen Dowd, and Jennifer Lin.
And then, there are the politicians and their wives. He’s attacked Heidi Cruz, Carly Fiorina, Frederica Wilson, Hillary Clinton, and Elizabeth Warren. Now we can add New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand to the list.
Gillibrand called for Trump to resign over the multiple accusations of his sexual harassment. You know, all that stuff he bragged about doing. Trump got his tighty-whities into a twist over her comments. He responded in his favorite medium, which was Twitter, of course.
He tweeted, “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 would do anything for them), is now in the ring fighting against Trump. Very disloyal to Bill & Crooked-USED!”
Did Trump insinuate that the Senator would perform sexual favors for money? Yes, yes he did. Sarah Huckabee Sanders engaged in some huckstering by saying only people with their “minds in the gutter” would take something sexual from Trump’s tweet. I wonder how much money she’s making spinning this B.S. for. Oh, wait. That’s public information. She earns $176,461 a year lying for Trump. To be fair, I’m sure she’d do it for a lot less because, let’s be honest, she enjoys lying and she’s worth a lot less. Since Trump is intimidated by intelligent women, it’s safe to say he feels very safe and secure around Huckabee Sanders.
The defense that Trump wasn’t accusing Gillibrand of being a whore reminds me when he said he didn’t make fun of a handicapped person, or make a reference to Megyn Kelly menstruating, or that he was only joking when he asked Russia to interfere in our election while they were interfering in our election, or imply that people with guns should shoot Hillary Clinton if she won the election.
Senator Elizabeth Warren, who Trump has racially attacked as “Pocahontas,” because she scares the holy bejeezus out of him, went after Trump for his vile assault on Gillibrand. Warren tweeted, “Are you really trying to bully, intimidate and slut-shame?”
And, guess how a lot of stupid right-wingers interpreted that tweet. They’re spinning that Warren was calling Gillibrand a slut. It’s generally recognized that calling out “slut-shaming” is not the equivalent of calling the subject of said shaming a slut. But, remember that fourth-grade reading level thing I mentioned earlier? Well, yeah.
Back to Trump. Trump is such a vile, disgusting, stupid, repugnant, despicable, horrible, stupid person (I know I wrote “stupid” twice), that even USA Today has an opinion about him. USA Today isn’t known for their hard-hitting editorials. They don’t like to publish something that someone somewhere in an airport or a hotel will disagree with. They don’t endorse candidates. But, last year, while not endorsing Hillary Clinton, they did endorse that you should not vote for Trump. The only other time in the paper’s history when they “disendorsed” a candidate was in 1991, when former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke was the Republican nominee for governor of Louisiana.
This week, they published another opinion about Trump. They wrote, “a president who would all but call Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand a whore is not fit to clean the toilets in the Barack Obama Presidential Library or to shine the shoes of George W. Bush.”
DAMN, USA Today! Tells us how you really feel. That reads like something you would find in Mother Jones, Rolling Stone, your favorite aunt’s Twitter feed, or…this blog. Let me say it again. DAMN!
But, USA Today is correct. In addition to being unfit doing janitorial work in a presidential library or working as Bush’s shoeshine boy, he’s also not fit for the Oval Office. However, I do believe Trump is fit to clean the toilets in the “Supermax” facility in Florence, Colorado.
Creative notes: I wanted to cover this issue yesterday, but I had to cover Alabama. Nearly every single one of my clients has run my “Sassy” cartoon.
I have a hard time drawing Mitch McConnell which is odd because I enjoy drawing turtles.
