PRESIDENTIAL PREDATOR
On the campaign trail, T**** promised women, “You will no longer be in danger. I will protect women at a level never seen before, whether they like it or not.” Given his history, it’s understandable if some women don’t. But T**** is not really being original with this pledge.
“Protector” is a common theme among white evangelicals, who promote the idea that men and women have different but complementary roles. This cave man mentality says that big, strong men are the providers and protectors, and weak, frail women the nurturers and supporters, who must submit to male domination.
That is certainly true of Donald, who has a long history with dominating and uncontrolled sexual behavior. Having famously cheated with his first and second wives with his second and third wives and on his third wife with an adult movie actress, he infamously boasted on “Access Hollywood” about being entitled to forcefully grope and kiss unwilling women.
He has bragged about strolling into Miss Teen America dressing rooms so he could ogle half-naked underage girls.
Donald has made many inappropriate comments about young girls as well. In 1992, T****, then 46, said about a 10-year-old girl: “I am going to be dating her in 10 years.”
That same year, after asking two 14-year-old girls in a youth choir their age, T**** said: “Wow! Just think, in a couple of years, I’ll be dating you.”
He has publicly sexualized his own daughter., Ivanka. During the 1997 Miss Teen USA pageant, T***** asked Miss Universe to comment his 16-year-old daughter’s physical attributes. He once even said that if she weren’t his daughter, he’d be dating her.
These comments and actions demonstrate a pattern of sexualizing and objectifying underage teenagers, which behavioral experts consider dangerous and enabling to predators.
Then, of course, New York juries found him liable of the sexual abuse (rape) of E. J. Carroll, and believed Stormy Daniels details how he had sex with with her before covering up their affair with a $130,000 hush money payment.
So the word that comes to my mind in connection to Donald T**** and women is not “protector.”
It’s Predator
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