Alicia Machado’s Classy Response To Trump Saying She Did Porn Is A Must-Read (QUOTES)
Former Miss Universe winner Alicia Machado is being victimized once again by Republican nominee Donald Trump, an avowed racist and sexist. Trump took to Twitter last night and told his followers to “go watch her sex tape” (which doesn’t exist) and attempted to slut-shame her for appearing topless in Playboy magazine. He’s reignited the feud with her after Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton brought up his fat-shaming attacks on Machado during Monday’s debate.
First off, the hypocrisy is truly mind-boggling. Trump, the nominee of the “family values” Republican Party, just told his conservative voters to go watch pornography, which is labelled a “public health crisis” in the Republican Party’s official 2016 platform. Secondly, his own wife has appeared naked in magazines, but somehow Machado is “disgusting” for appearing topless.
All that aside, the woman in question, Alicia Machado, took to Instagram to respond to the baseless slut-shaming attacks against her in a very classy way, wrapping herself in the American flag and hitting back against the decidedly un-American Trump:
Translated, her text reads:
“The Republican candidate and his campaign team are again generating attacks, insults and trying to revive slanders and false accusations about my life. All this in order to intimidate, humiliate me and throw me off balance again. The attacks that have emerged are slander and lies cheap generated with bad intentions, which have no foundation that have been spread by sensationalist media. This, of course, is not the first time that I faced such a situation. Through their hate campaign, the Republican candidate insists discredit and demoralize a woman, which is definitely one of the most terrifying features.
With this, they are seeking to distract attention from their real problems and [Trump’s] inability to pretend to be the leader of this great country. When I was a young girl, the now candidate humiliated, insulted me, disrespected me publicly, as he usually did privately in the cruelest way. As this happened to me, it is clear over the years that their actions and behavior have been repeated with other women for decades. Therefore, I will keep standing, sharing my story. I absolutely support Mrs. Clinton on behalf of women, my sisters, aunts, grandmothers, cousins, friends and female community.
My Latin and in general, I want to thank all the support, love and respect, my career, my person as a human being and my family. I became a citizen of this great country because my daughter was born here and because I wanted to exercise my rights, including voting. I will continue standing firm in my lived experience as Miss Universe and you with me supporting me. I’ve been so pleased with many kind words, for so much love. I’m focusing on my busy career, in my work as mother and I will continue taking positive steps for the Latino community, I will continue as activist for women’s rights and respect we deserve. I appreciate all your love and all your support again, thanks. “Thousands of blessings.
We applaud Machado for rising above the muck and shutting down Trump’s foul attacks with dignity. We’re delighted she has become an American citizen and gets to cast her first vote against the sexist monster that is Donald Trump.
This is a staff report from former Occupy Democrats Editor in Chief Colin Taylor or contributor Rob Haffney.