Is Donald Trump going for a new world record? Does he seek to become the first major candidate in the history of any country that actually allows women to vote to receive zero votes from women?
Now, you might think that he would receive darned few votes from women because, after all, he is a convicted felon and traitor running against a woman who is a vastly superior candidate in every respect. But, Trump, genius pudding mind that he is does not intend to leave anything to chance.
He has put together a ticket, a platform and a record that should drive away every single woman voter including but not limited to his wife Melania (who does not seem to like him very much to begin with), his daughter Ivanka (who has always acted as though she did not want her schmancy friends to know she was really a Trump) and his daughter Poor Tiffany (who Trump does not seem to actually remember is his daughter in the first place.)
As for Trump’s other female relatives, it is clear he would not get many votes from them. Trump’s own mother lamented “What kind of a son have I created?” and has had even worse comments about him attributed to her. His sister Maryanne was quoted as saying “He has no principles.” She was quoted saying this in a book by his niece (my friend) Mary Trump, “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man” which absolutely excoriates our once and would-be future monster-in-chief.
And of course, Donald Trump’s first wife, Ivana, said he raped her. Which, as we know, is not the only time he has been accused of rape. Indeed, a jury (and a judge) concluded that he had raped hero-journalist E. Jean Caroll. And he has been accused of sexual assault by many, many other women. Which is not surprising because Trump bragged about assaulting women…on national television.
So, at this point you probably are thinking, job done—the women in his family can’t stand him and he’s a serial abuser of women, of course no self-respecting woman could vote for him. But, Trump’s hatred and fear of women runs so deep, that he has gone even farther, extended and then kept on extending the list of reasons why women (and, let’s be honest, all men who either respect women, are related to women, know women, would someday like to meet a woman, or have a shred of decency or self-respect themselves) should never come within a barge pole’s length of casting a ballot for Trump.
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