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How Trump Has Used Debates to Belittle Women
The New York Times ^
| Sept. 9, 2024, 12:30 p.m. ET
| Jess Bidgood
Posted on 09/09/2024 2:56:11 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
It seems a strange twist of American history that the only man to have run against two female nominees in two presidential elections is one with a long and explicit record of denigrating women.
From the earliest days of his presidential candidacy in 2015 to a
Trump Tower news conference on Friday, Donald J. Trump has repeatedly attempted to attack, embarrass and threaten the women standing in his way — especially on the debate stage.
Mr. Trump has, of course, treated men with intense bellicosity, launching a blizzard of interruptions against President Biden during their first debate in 2020 and lobbing personal insults at the likes of Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz during the primary in 2016.
But a review of his onstage clashes with women shows how, over nine years in politics, he has honed a playbook of explicitly gendered attacks against both female candidates and journalists that he is likely to draw from on Tuesday when he debates Vice President Kamala Harris. Mr. Trump has used his physical presence and body language to intimidate women, made veiled threats, complained that they were uniquely mean and belittled their qualifications in a way that many women view as open sexism.
In fact, the first time he ever spoke of a female presidential candidate on a debate stage, it was to brag about the control he had over her.
“I said, ‘Be at my wedding,’ and she came to my wedding, you know why?” Mr. Trump said, answering a question about his previous donations to Hillary Clinton in the first Republican primary debate in 2015. “She had no choice, because I gave.”
The Trump campaign defended his treatment of women and female journalists during debates.
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TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: grabbingatstraws; jessbidgood; newyorkslimes; r; tds
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
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posted on
09/09/2024 2:58:53 PM PDT
by
Williams
(Let's Focus On Electing President Trump)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
The Harris campaign is so incompetent the NYT and others have to do the job for them.
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posted on
09/09/2024 2:59:39 PM PDT
by
Fledermaus
(Clay Bevis and Cuck Butthead are panty wadded, pearl clutching cowards. Rush deserves better.)
To: All
I’m sure Putin will a lot more polite to Kamala
4
posted on
09/09/2024 3:00:30 PM PDT
by
escapefromboston
(Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
The NY Slimes is all but telling us that Harris is way out of her league being on a presidential debate stage.
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posted on
09/09/2024 3:00:56 PM PDT
by
dowcaet
To: E. Pluribus Unum
The media can only cover for this whore so much.
Seems they’re trying to bait President Trump into attacking her for just being a woman, and that means she likely has a “devastating” retort all ready to go.
All hat, no cattle = democrats. It’s all about style for them, no substance.
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posted on
09/09/2024 3:02:35 PM PDT
by
Pox
(Eff You China. Buy American!)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
silly psych ops attempts to defang Trump. Good luck with that. ha ha
To: dowcaet
he’s not Don Rickles. I thought he was more George Wallace. If Obama can be a cross between the late Sam Cooke and the Reverend Lee Roy why can’t Trump be Fred G?
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Maybe the rude bitches needed to be knocked down a peg. Anyone ever consider that? The soy boys don't im sure but Dads know the deal. A cross word has never hurt me, but an butt whipping always helped my vision clear.
Sometimes we all need to be reminded to check ourself?
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posted on
09/09/2024 3:05:09 PM PDT
by
Kudsman
(30yr registered Conservative wants a complete Republican House & Senate. Protect the king.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Maureen Dowd's angry younger sister?
Jess AngryBiddy.
10
posted on
09/09/2024 3:05:09 PM PDT
by
kiryandil
(Kraft durch Freude! - The Kamunist and The Walzrus )
To: E. Pluribus Unum
It would help if Kamunist wasn’t such an incompetent dope open and inviting to so much richly deserved belittlement.
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posted on
09/09/2024 3:05:25 PM PDT
by
Sirius Lee
(Trump/Vance 2024 or GFY)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
I thought liberal women were “Fierce”
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posted on
09/09/2024 3:05:28 PM PDT
by
frogjerk
(More people have died trusting the government than not trusting the government.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
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posted on
09/09/2024 3:05:29 PM PDT
by
NohSpinZone
(First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
They forgot “How women have used debates to belittle Trump.” Works both ways.
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posted on
09/09/2024 3:06:35 PM PDT
by
JudyinCanada
(Stand up to bullies. Bowing down is cowardly, and they win.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
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posted on
09/09/2024 3:07:11 PM PDT
by
cockroach_magoo
(No one is above the law, but some are more above the law than others.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
...with intense bellicosity...
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posted on
09/09/2024 3:07:20 PM PDT
by
ComputerGuy
(Heavily-medicated for your protection)
To: Pox
We need another, “...only Rosie O’Donnell” moment.
To: E. Pluribus Unum
The Slimes are on a roll!
18
posted on
09/09/2024 3:08:23 PM PDT
by
grimalkin
(Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man. -Fulton J. Sheen)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Only the right women (if they can be called that).
19
posted on
09/09/2024 3:10:00 PM PDT
by
PTBAA
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Agitprop is all they have. They are trying to soften the ground for a Harris counter-attack.
Anything that Trump says about Harris will be spun as "belittling" her.
- Harris will call Trump a liar, but if Trump calls Harris a flip-flopper he will be belittling her.
- Harris will say that Trump slept with a "porn star," but if Trump says that Harris had an affair with a married man to get a job he will be belittling her.
- Harris will say that she was a prosecutor and Trump is a convicted felon, but if Trump says that Harris was so afraid of him that they had to make up crimes to try to jail him he will be belittling her.
- Harris will say that Trump is too old and can't remember things, but if Trump says that Harris can't say a simple sentence that isn't full of nonsensical gobbledygook, he will be belittling her.
- Harris will say that everybody who knows Trump is voting for her, but if Trump says that 90% of Harris's own staff quit because she's a terrible boss, he will be belittling her.
- What President Trump should NOT say is anything about her nervous laugh.
-PJ
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posted on
09/09/2024 3:12:45 PM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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