Arwa Mahdawi - Trump is constantly attacking women’s looks and clearly has a bizarre obsession with bodily fluids
Trump loves attacking
women's looks. And America rewards him for it
It’s official. America
is stuck in an unrelentingly gruesome Groundhog Day. In the morning, Trump
tweets something unhinged and/or misogynistic. Then a slew of commentators
express their shock, even though Trump became president on a platform of
unhinged misogyny. In the midst of all this, a member of the president’s band
of female apologists (Melania, Ivanka, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, and Kellyanne
Conway) is summoned to jump to Trump’s defense.
Then we spend the rest
of the day enthralled in the reality-TV-style shenanigans while the Trump
administration continues to dismantle democracy and hack away at
healthcare. In case you somehow
missed the latest drama, here’s a quick recap. On Thursday
morning Trump, the man who is president of a supposedly civilized
country, took to Twitter to attack the hosts of MSNBC’s Morning Joe. He
reserved most of his vitriol for anchor Mika Brzezinski who he described as
“low IQ”, “Crazy”, and “bleeding badly from a facelift.”
If all of this sounds
horribly familiar it’s because it is. Trump is constantly attacking women’s
looks and clearly has a bizarre obsession with bodily fluids. In 2015, for
example, he accused then-Fox News Host Megyn Kelly of unfairly targeting him,
saying “You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes. Blood coming out
of her wherever.”
Despite the fact that
Trump’s latest tweetstorm was entirely in character for the president, there
were some in the media who still managed to express surprise at the outburst.
Like Michael Grynbaum at the New York Times, for example, who
wrote “President Trump assailed the television host Mika Brzezinski on
Thursday in unusually personal and vulgar terms.” Sorry, did he say
“unusually”? Exactly where has Grynbaum been for the last year?
And, on CNN, Brian
Stelter wrote: “Even by President Trump’s standards, these tweets were
shocking.” Again, you’d have to have been hiding under a rock for the last year
to think that these latest tweets (although obviously disgusting) were somehow
more shocking than the gazillion other ghastly things the president has said
and done. You want to know
what’s truly shocking? The fact that, ultimately, Trump’s misogyny doesn’t hurt
him at all; if anything it helps him… read more:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jun/29/trump-insults-to-women-mika-brzezinski-misogny