Surprise: Donald Trump Makes Another Controversial Comment About Women | Vanity Fair
In one of his final campaign appearances before Election Day, Donald Trump creepily declared that he’s going to protect American women “whether the women like it or not,” accidentally driving home the message that he does not know or care about consent, whether in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the ’90s or as a presidential candidate.
Speaking at a rally in Wisconsin, Trump told the crowd that his staff had begged him not to make paternalistic claims about women, like his declaration last month that, with him as president, women in this country “will no longer be thinking about abortion” because “you will be protected and I will be your protector.” After claiming that his staff told him, “We think it’s very inappropriate for you to say,” Trump said he responded, “I’m going to do it whether the women like it or not. I am going to protect them.”
While the current national polls effectively put Trump in a dead heat with Kamala Harris, she is trouncing him when it comes to support among women, including in key swing states. Which might have something to do with the fact that the ex-president says things like, “I’m going to do it whether the women like it or not,” and that he also:
In response to Trump’s Wednesday remarks, Harris wrote on X: “Donald Trump thinks he should get to make decisions about what you do with your body. Whether you like it or not.”
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