Trump Slut-Shamed Alicia Machado. Elizabeth Warren’s Response Is PERFECT (TWEETS)
Populist champion Senator Elizabeth Warren took to Twitter this afternoon to shame Trump for his misogynistic attacks on former Miss Universe, Alicia Machado. Trump, who is physically incapable of letting a petty public feud go, began tweeting at 3 A.M. about how his followers should check out Machado’s “sex tape” (which doesn’t exist) and slut-shaming her for appearing in Playboy (Trump was also on the cover of Playboy and his wife is also a nude model, let’s not forget).
Today, Warren found time in her busy schedule of exposing bankers for cheating their customers and protecting the American people from the greedy machinations of Wall Street to take a couple shots at Trump, and they definitely made their mark on the Republican nominee, who regularly mocks Warren for being of Native American descent by calling her “Pocahontas.”
Is this what keeps you up at night, @realDonaldTrump? Thinking of new & interesting ways to call women fat or ugly or sluts?
— Elizabeth Warren (@elizabethforma) September 30, 2016
You never tweet at 3am with ways to help students getting crushed by debt or seniors struggling on Social Security, @realDonaldTrump.
— Elizabeth Warren (@elizabethforma) September 30, 2016
You never tweet at 3am with ways to create new jobs for workers or hold Wall Street accountable, @realDonaldTrump.
— Elizabeth Warren (@elizabethforma) September 30, 2016
Nope, @realDonaldTrump: the only things that keep your mind racing at night are your next racist, sexist tweets & disgusting lies.
— Elizabeth Warren (@elizabethforma) September 30, 2016
A thin-skinned bully who thinks humiliating women at 3am qualifies him to be President does not understand America & is not fit to lead.
— Elizabeth Warren (@elizabethforma) September 30, 2016
We couldn’t have said it better ourselves. After a disastrous debate performance, Donald Trump isn’t backing off his outrageously offensive attacks on women – he’s doubling down on them, pursuing these absurd public fights like the bully he is, so blinded by his own pride he’d rather walk into a minefield than back down. That kind of blind arrogance represents the kind of temperament that will lead our country into ruin.
Opinion columnist and former editor-in-chief of Occupy Democrats. He graduated from Bennington College with a Bachelor's degree in history and political science. He now focuses on advancing the cause of social justice and equality in America.