Surprise! Two Most Powerful Men in America Can’t Stop Being Awful to Women
Trump and JD Vance really did their worst this week.
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In their regular routine to set Americans back decades, it unfortunately now comes as a shock to *checks notes* absolutely no one whenever Trump or Vice President JD Vance says something disrespectful to, towards, or about women. But in a rare streak of alignment between the two, this week both of them yielded no shortage of such moments. Great!
Let’s begin with Vance, who—after getting called out for forgetting a politician’s name—proceeded to call her a “crazy lady.” Classy!
The veep has been spending the last few months on a nightmare tour with Turning Point USA, where he’s visited various college campuses to curry the favor of our brilliant young minds alongside, ahem, Erika Kirk. Anyways. He’s been maximizing his airtime on these journeys, and wherever he goes for the TPUSA tour he’s made a habit of also trying to curry favor among American voters—or specifically try to convince them why they should vote for the GOP in the coming midterms. In the most recent of these tours, Vance touched down in Des Moines, Iowa on Tuesday, and touted his support for Trump-backed congressional candidate Zach Nunn when he suddenly forgot Nunn’s opponents name, Sarah Garriott.
“When I see Iowa farmers who need to get that E15 to market, that is, uh… this… what,” he stumbled. “Zach, you’re gonna have to help me out with her name here; I lost my page.” Seemingly flipping forward a few pages, he says, “OK! There we go. Sarah Trone Garriott. There it is.”
Garriott replied in a video tweet, the caption saying, “Tonight, JD Vance attacked me… or tried to. Meanwhile, I’m showing up for the people of this district.” In the video, she says, “Zach Nunn is too afraid to face his constituents and is instead campaigning with DC insiders, attacking me, because there’s nothing good to say about his record of taking away healthcare and raising costs on Iowans.”
Now, given this was a response to a top politician forgetting your name in the district you’re literally running for… the reaction seems mild. But Vance clearly didn’t think so, because he on Thursday tweeted a video recap of his time in the Hawkeye State, tweeting, “Iowa, vote for Zach Nunn this November, not that crazy lady whose name I forgot.” Again—classy!
Also on Thursday, about 900 miles east of Iowa, Trump was waging some assholery of his own on Thursday when ABC News’ Rachel Scott asked him about his latest vanity project in the Capitol; to turn Washington’s reflecting pool blue. “Mr President, you are here against the backdrop of the war in Iran,” Scott said. “Why focus on all these projects right now especially with gas prices soaring?”
God, how dare a journalist ask a question that’s objectively within the public’s interest.
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