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Define applause6/17/2023 ![]() Scott Jennings courtesy of Scott Jennings Scott Jennings: This is how Trump won in 2016 Jill Filipovic is a journalist based in New York and author of the book “ OK Boomer, Let’s Talk: How My Generation Got Left Behind. The question is whether voters in 2024, unlike so many in 2016, will care. Trump’s attacks on and ridicule of various women in such a short span of time were a harsh reminder of who he is. And there are, of course, a greater number of men who find Trump’s misogyny excusable enough to cast their ballots in his favor – and even applaud him. There are a significant number of female voters, the overwhelming majority of them White, who are either so accepting of or so used to rank misogyny that they have no issue voting for a man who has boasted about grabbing women’s genitals and whom a jury believes is more likely than not a sexual abuser. Many of those fans, of course, were women. The targeting of Carroll was particularly egregious, considering that a jury just penalized Trump to the tune of $5 million for what they found to be his sexual abuse of Carroll and his defamation of her for calling her claims a “hoax” and a “con job.” At the town hall, he again denied Carroll’s claims, and then turned her into a joke, cruelly laying into her while his fans cheered and jeered. The crowd generally cheered Trump and his sentiments disparaging whichever woman was in his crosshairs. The town hall audience – selected on the basis of their intention to vote in the Republican primary in New Hampshire – appeared to be made up mostly of Trump fans. On Wednesday night, he made clear that he’s as sexist as ever – something that didn’t seem to bother many in the crowd. Wade, a move that cost many Republicans elections.Ī man whose misogyny was so extreme and unvarnished he inspired the Women’s March and the #MeToo movement is back. And to boot, he boasted about his role in the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Jean Carroll, who just bested him in court. If female voters are key to a Donald Trump victory in 2024, the former president should be in big trouble – but he doesn’t seem to care.Īfter being found liable for sexual abuse by a New York jury earlier this week, Trump took to the CNN town hall stage Wednesday night and proceeded to mock and berate Kaitlan Collins, the female anchor questioning him (a “nasty” person, he called her) after mocking and berating E. ![]() Jill Filipovic Courtesy of Jill Filipovic Jill Filipovic: Trump needs women to win in 2024, but he doesn’t seem to care Paul Begala, a Democratic strategist and CNN political commentator, was a political consultant for Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign in 1992 and served as a counselor to Clinton in the White House. ![]() Trump is a narcissist in a hall of mirrors. Not a thought for the tens of millions of women whose rights have been rolled back by Trump-appointed Supreme Court justices – just triumphant boasting about how he was the GOP president who actually delivered on the overturning of Roe v. Not a word of thanks for veterans and their families. Not a mention of the struggling rural families wrestling with the demon of opioid abuse. There was not a hint of empathy for the heroic cops who were brutally attacked on January 6. He failed to acknowledge the very real pain felt by so many Americans – including the millions who voted for him. He used the first-person pronoun in nearly every sentence, sounding like a tenor warming up for the opera: “Me, me, me, me, meeeeee.” This was vintage Trump: whining about the election he lost, grumbling about being indicted in New York, moaning about the jury that found him liable for the civil offense of sexual abuse and defamation. And there’s little indication he did enough to win over independent voters. It was an airing of grievances that will doubtless thrill his MAGA base, but may well motivate anti-Trump voters just as much. Opioid deaths skyrocketed, and the national debt exploded by $7 trillion during Trump’s tenure.īut in tonight’s CNN town hall, Trump told us who the real victim of this era is: Donald Trump.įrom the opening question to his last comment, Trump whined, griped and complained. ![]() 2.9 million Americans lost their jobs while former President Donald Trump was in the White House. More than 400,000 Americans died from Covid-19 during the Trump presidency.
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