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Last week, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gave a speech that was announced as an economic policy address, standing next to a display of food in front of his country club.
My attention immediately focused on the huge glasses of Folgers coffee.
My grandma, who raised 9 kids and lived in a tiny rent-controlled apartment for the last 20 years of her life, drank Folgers her entire life because it was cheap. She used the empty cans to store bacon grease and leftovers, so there was always a can or two of Folgers right next to the stove in her kitchen.
Does anyone think Mr. Trump serves my grandmother’s Folgers in Bedminster or Mar a Lago – the fancy clubs where the Republican presidential candidate lives behind golden gates, plays golf and socializes with wealthy members?
What is he selling other than his personal privileges and his anger?
Everyone from his advisers to the FOX News anchors (who are also his advisers) keep telling him he needs to address things like rent, groceries, and gas. But they’ve been saying that for years, and he clearly doesn’t have the discipline or (this is true) even the intelligence to do it.
Trump cannot turn to economic policy because what matters most to him and what he enjoys most is tearing down smart, powerful women for applause. He recently declared that he has the right to personally attack his opponent – Vice President Kamala Harris, whose name he repeatedly and deliberately mispronounces – and that he has no respect for her or her intelligence.
In a series of social media posts, Trump called Harris “low IQ,” “stupid,” and said she lacked the “mental capacity” to debate him… “Has anyone noticed that Kamala Harris doesn’t do interviews? That’s because she’s really STUPID!”
On August 18, he released a music video that began with a photo of Harris and the words “I AM A MORON” in all caps. In the middle, a photo of Harris with her husband is shown as the singer sings, “She spent her whole damn life on her knees trying to be commander in chief.”
When asked why she was on the cover of Time magazine, he said: “She looks like the most beautiful actress who ever lived” … “It was a drawing, and in fact she looked very much like a great First Lady, Melania (…) She is a beautiful woman, so let’s leave it at that.”
Shall we leave it at that?
He talks about the current Vice President of the United States and his challenger for the office of President of the United States.
Please sit down, sir.
Sit the fuck down.
His comments in Time magazine were reminiscent of the Rolling Stone story about his beauty pageant owner, in which he boasted about bursting into the women’s dressing room. He declined to say whether he ever slept with a contestant. “It could be a conflict of interest. … But you know, that’s something you think about later, you tend to think about the conflict a little later,” Trump joked. A few bars later, he reconsidered his stance, joking that as the owner of the pageant, it might be his “obligation” to sleep with the contestants.
Mr Trump is the elected leader and standard-bearer of the Republican Party, and he also fits the stereotype of the old man who hates to be stuck next to him on an international flight.
All women know Exactly who this man is. Arrogant and pushy flirtatious; insists (against your repeated requests) on chatting nonstop and asking questions about your personal life while leaning toward you; offers you a TicTac or gum from his front pocket; lets his legs spread so he “accidentally” touches you; is convinced you like him and gives you a business card even though you feel insecure and can’t wait to get away from him.
Mr. Trump is the corrupt old man we warn our daughters about, and young women know it.
A few days ago, pollster Frank Luntz said: “Tonight I’m trying to do a focus group for a major news magazine with undecided voters under the age of 27. And I can’t get young women to do it because they don’t exist as undecided voters.”
Here are some tips.
Giving a speech about grocery prices at your country club where you live like a king and rub shoulders with the jet-setting elite is stupid. Stop screwing the American people. We know he never shopped for groceries or loved a woman who kept grease in a Folgers can.
Repeatedly saying that your opponent is too pretty or too stupid or that she only got to her current position on her knees is an insult to all women, regardless of their age or political party affiliation.
Donald Trump is nothing. He is a country club villain, a dirty, seedy old man, a con artist, a liar, an abuser, and a felon.
He wasted 8 years of our time.
Eight. Years.
We have hard work ahead of us and a joyful life ahead of us. Let’s get started.
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