TRUMP’S PROBLEM WITH WOMEN: WE’RE NOT ALL “TRUMP GIRLS”By: Amanda Carpenter | May 18, 2016
To hear Donald Trump tell it, "I respect women, I love women, I cherish women."
Sure he does. As he’s demonstrated, numerous times, he obsesses over them. Their looks and his relationships with them, especially.
FOLLOW Why else would a man be driven to invent and impersonate a pretend PR man, John Miller, to talk to a People magazine about his divorce from Ivana and subsequent escapades with his next wife Marla Maples and Italian supermodel Carla Bruni?
Trump views beautiful women as key to his success and, as such, protects this part of his image very carefully. As he told Esquire magazine in 1991, "You know, it doesn't really matter what [the media] write as long as you've got a young beautiful piece of ass."
Pretty = good. Ugly = bad. He is not a complicated man.
And, sure, judging women on their looks makes perfect sense when Trump was the owner of the Miss USA, Miss Teen USA, and Miss Universe beauty pageants where he profited off the backs of young scantily-clad women.
But it gets a little weird now that he's running to be President of the United States.
Like when he, apropos of nothing, flirtatiously told a female Washington Post reporter at the end of an editorial meeting that she is "beautiful."
Or, when he sent New York Times columnist Gail Collins a copy of her column with her, as she recalls, her "picture circled and 'The Face of a Dog' written over it."
He’s judged the looks of so many women that Fox News primetime star Megyn Kelly, memorably, encapsulated them all in a question that began, “You’ve called women you don’t like fat pigs, dogs, slobs, and disgusting animals.” He retorted by promoting a tweet to his millions of followers calling Kelly a “bimbo.”
Still, none of this has stopped him from all but clinching the GOP nomination for president. For all the examples of Trump objectifying women, there are plenty of women willing to be objectified by “Mister Trump.”
One woman, Rowanne Brewer Lane, was recently profiled in a New York Times pieces that summarized some 50 interviews with women who have been inappropriately approached by Trump over the years.
Contrary to the Times reporting, she says she had no problem with the fact that upon meeting Trump for the first time, at a pool party, he guided her to a room and asked her to put on a swimsuit.
She obliged and changed in a bathroom. He waited for her when she showed him how she looked in it he said “Wow!” He then took her to the pool and said to others, “This is a stunning Trump girl, isn’t it?”
(Trump and Lane ended up dating for some period of time.)
Lane maintains she was “flattered” to be called a “Trump girl” and many other women, such as former Miss USA Carrie Prejean, feel the same way.
In a recent interview, Trump’s campaign denied that Trump would have any problems getting the women’s vote because, as she put it, “His own wife endorsed him for president.”
Trump’s campaign, however, would do well to highlight women who Trump hasn’t dated, employed, or married to vouch for his
character.
Because, yes, it’s easy to believe Trump “loves” and “cherishes” women, as he says. But, so far, it seems only those who help enhance his image — only those willing to be “Trump girls.”
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