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Trump Didn't Mention Women Once During His State of the Union Address, Amid #MeToo Movement (Waah!)
Newsweek ^ | 1/31/2018 | Nicole Goodkind

Posted on 01/31/2018 10:01:51 AM PST by simpson96

President Donald Trump said many words during his hour and 20 minute long State of the Union address Tuesday evening, but he did not mention women once.

Trump’s first year in office was a landmark year for women, as the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements shaped political and popular culture. Multiple elected and appointed officials were forced to resign after admitting to sexual harassment and assault, and more women than ever will run for office in 2018.

The president, meanwhile, made several attempts to limit access to reproductive care, refused to call himself a feminist and was accused of cheating on his wife with adult film star Stephanie Gregory Clifford, also known as Stormy Daniels. Trump's annual average approval rating for his first year in office was only 33 percent among women, compared with 45 percent among men.

But it’s not just Trump: Republicans also have a female problem.

According to recent polling, women favor Democrats over Republicans in the November midterm elections by 16 points, while men support both parties at parity. Such data indicates that Trump "is not likely to be much help in rallying women to support Republicans in the upcoming midterm elections," said Gallup's Megan Brenan.

Ignoring women’s issues during the most important policy-shaping speech of the year doesn’t help. Trump only used the term “woman” once, while telling the story of a homeless woman who was found pregnant and injecting heroin.

“We know where we stand in Trump's vision of our union,” tweeted the National Women's Law Center after his speech.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: metoo; snowflakes; trumpsotu; trumpsotuspeech; women; womyn
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Here's the Towering Intellect who wrote the article:

Her Twitter feed is completely anti-Trump, anti-Republican.

1 posted on 01/31/2018 10:01:52 AM PST by simpson96
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To: simpson96

And I should care what this gaping, flapping tw@ht has to say???


2 posted on 01/31/2018 10:04:03 AM PST by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
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To: simpson96

He didn’t mention the pussy hats, either?!


3 posted on 01/31/2018 10:04:10 AM PST by reagandemocrat
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To: simpson96

The ACLU says Trump said America more than 80 times. Last time I looked, women make up just over half of the population in America. He also talked about jobs, and last I looked, many women have jobs in America.

I don’t recall him specifically mentioning men either.


4 posted on 01/31/2018 10:04:58 AM PST by euram
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To: simpson96

That’s it! DJT is finished for sure now.


5 posted on 01/31/2018 10:05:03 AM PST by reagandemocrat
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To: simpson96
What?

The Officer and wife who adopted that wonderful baby from that poor woman racked by heroin?

6 posted on 01/31/2018 10:05:25 AM PST by KC_Lion (If you want on First Lady Melania's, Ivanka Trump's or Sarah Palin's Ping Lists, just let me know.)
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To: simpson96

Gee, I only watched the first ten minutes, and I heard him mention the First Lady, and lead two standing ovations for Coast Guard aviation electronics technician Ashlee Leppert, who (it appeared to me) is a woman.


7 posted on 01/31/2018 10:05:45 AM PST by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: simpson96

He did refer to all Americans in several ways. Memo to writer: All Americans include women.


8 posted on 01/31/2018 10:06:00 AM PST by luvbach1 (I hope Trump runs roughshod over the inevitable obstuctionists, Dems, progs, libs, or RINOs!)
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To: simpson96

Read my lips...brain dead child of the the low life Democrats. “POTUS, Trump addressed the American people last evening...and both women and men make up what we call the people. What a blooming idiot.


9 posted on 01/31/2018 10:06:10 AM PST by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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To: simpson96

He mentioned Americans.

He put women and men on an equal playing field — we are all Americans.

To segregate part of the population and to speak to them as some sort of “other” and specify that a particular part of the speech for about “women”, it seems to me, would have been rather sexist.

Glad he avoided that and just used a broad, welcoming, equitable term: Americans.


10 posted on 01/31/2018 10:06:13 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (The revolution will not be televised (at least, not by CNN).)
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To: simpson96

Trump mentioned Americans quite a few times. That includes women, doesn’t it?


11 posted on 01/31/2018 10:06:14 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
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To: simpson96

Not true, he named the two girls murdered by the MS13 gang members as well as their mothers and the girl who gave up her baby to the husband and wife.

Guess she is only worried about AA giveaways and abortion.


12 posted on 01/31/2018 10:06:47 AM PST by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Beat me by one second!


13 posted on 01/31/2018 10:06:49 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
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To: simpson96

Unfortunately like it or not women are the most gullible to thesocialist crap that the Democrats peddle and enter the number one reason why Democrats even still win elections


14 posted on 01/31/2018 10:07:20 AM PST by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: simpson96

Here’s the Towering Intellect who wrote the article:


Oh, that picture speaks volumes. Just what we all need is to be lectured by a know-nothing fruit bat.


15 posted on 01/31/2018 10:07:27 AM PST by Flick Lives
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To: simpson96
Yes he did, every time he mentioned Americans, or "the American People", or "American citizens", et cetera.
16 posted on 01/31/2018 10:07:59 AM PST by LIConFem (I will no longer accept the things I cannot change. it's time to change the things I cannot accept.)
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To: simpson96

Am I not an American? Americans and the pronoun, we, were mentioned many times.

Is this person living in some era or country where women were not counted in a census?

What a ridiculous creature!


17 posted on 01/31/2018 10:08:04 AM PST by OpusatFR
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To: simpson96

The last time I looked women are Americans which were celebrated last night.


18 posted on 01/31/2018 10:08:15 AM PST by Mysonsrdoctors
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To: Fresh Wind

"Trump didn't mention women."

Yes he did. He mentioned America and Americans so many times the ACLU almost had a seizure.

19 posted on 01/31/2018 10:08:54 AM PST by bagster (Even bad men love their mamas.)
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To: Mysonsrdoctors

Perhaps she meant womyn?

The dear things are so confused today.


20 posted on 01/31/2018 10:09:30 AM PST by OpusatFR
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