Donald Trump Is Being Outplayed by Women—and He’s Losing His Mind Over It

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Donald Trump Is Being Outplayed by Women—and He’s Losing His Mind Over It
The Nation, 9/30/16 -- By Joan Walsh

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Four days after his pathetic debate performance, Donald Trump is still digging himself deeper down the hole that Hillary Clinton dispatched him to on Monday night when she disclosed his racist and sexist treatment of former Miss Universe Alicia Machado. He didn’t deny Clinton’s claims that he’d fat-shamed his employee, calling her “Miss Piggy” and “Miss Housekeeping;” he essentially confirmed it, telling Fox and Friends the next morning that she’d gained weight, and it was a problem for him. Then his allies began attacking Machado for rumors that she’d been involved in a murder plot—she was never charged, with anything—and in the porn trade. The story’s latest twist is Trump’s meltdown in the wee small hours of Friday morning, attacking both Clinton and Machado on Twitter, and urging his 11 million followers to look at a “sextape” of Machado (one that Snopes.com says doesn’t actually exist.)

We already know the Trump phenomenon channels the tremendous and tragic backlash to the advancements of women and people of color in the last few decades. The folks in those “Make America Great Again” hats are almost always white and usually male. They are in thrall to a reassuring story that restores men to the head of society and whites to their central, superior place. Sure, there’s a strain of economic anxiety that reflects troubling economic trends for the white working class over the last 40 years. But Trump is also relying on male anger at female advancement. His serial adultery and his swaggering misogyny are key to his appeal to some older white men.

But they’re appalling to women of every race and age group, who are coming to see Trump as the belittling boss and callow playboy who shames employees, wives and daughters alike with cruel or crude comments about their appearance. The notion of a man who is clinically obese fat-shaming a beautiful but curvy young woman exemplifies the double standard that reduces women to their youth and beauty, but allows men (especially wealthy ones) a lifetime of presumed virility and social prestige.

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[Lifelong Protester]

1. swaggering misogyny-she's got that right.

[Satch59]

2. I love Joan Walsh...

Clinton campaign has perfectly timed this...just when voters are starting to pay attention and they have really found a subject that can touch the heart of women...and men who don't want to be associated with the He Man Womens Haters Club...(for all you Little Rascals fans...)

Empowering women is a beautiful thing...

[niyad]

3. this paragraph:

 It’s no accident that three of Trump’s victims—Machado, the Khan family, and Judge Gonzalo Curiel—are not white. Hostility to minorities is the animating energy of the campaign. But the candidate’s derangement over Machado surpasses his prior breakdowns—for a good reason. A woman he once controlled, quite literally—making her exercise in front of the media, to prove she was taking his demands to lose weight seriously—is defying him publicly. Another woman, Hillary Clinton, refused to slink into obscurity after her husband humiliated her (last year Trump shared a fan’s tweet asking, “If Hillary Clinton can’t satisfy her husband what makes her think she can satisfy America?”) and is currently leading him in the race for the presidency.

[C_U_L8R]

4. I doubt Trump can even play checkers.

Go Fish seems more his type of thing.

[PearliePoo2]

5. What's happening is completely foreign to him. He can NOT wrap his "squirrel-fur" head around it.

The pampered "Golden Boy" has had people kissing his ass his entire life.
Now...he's getting his flabby, flaccid ass KICKED from here to next Tuesday...by a GIRL!
I'm RELISHING his public meltdown. May it be EPIC!

[beachbumbob]

6. He is being publicly humiliated and his inner circle is cracking

They had no idea how unstable trump is....So sweet to watch

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. "see Trump as the belittling boss & callow playboy who shames employees, wives and daughters alike"

Donald doesn't have a clue how negative he is playing out.

[TexasProgresive]

8. The Queen of hearts beats the King of clubs in my book.

[getagrip_already]

25. Hillary poker....

Where the queen Trump's the king.

Love it.

[Jon King]

9. Exactly

This is why the venom is even higher among his supporters. They can deal with Obama more than a women. He looked like an athlete they might have seen on TV. Didn't vote for him, but dealt with it. But Hillary is getting vitriol that is off the charts.

[calimary]

21. Welcome to DU, Jon King!

I wouldn't rule that out, either. At least, for some of them, at least Barack Obama is a guy. But a WOMAN in charge? OMG, can't have that, can we?

[Johnny Noshoes]

26. My older brother

My older brother who is sadly a Trump supporter said being President is a man's job. Insulting to women and our sister on top of it. My sister is a bank executive with a small bank in New Hampshire. I think if our mother was still alive she'd have to smack him upside the head and maybe knock some sense into him. A lot of these old white guys will NEVER get it. This 62 year old white guy sure as hell does - I'm with her!

[calimary]

27. Hugs! I'm married to a 67-year-old white guy. He's with her, too!

My husband is a remarkable feminist, and has been from the time I met him back in college. He is very highly evolved. Sounds like you are, too!

[Johnny Noshoes]

29. Thanks cali

I had a cousin say to me once at a family gathering "You know you never really did fit in". I wasn't insulted at all as most of my cousins are right wingers so I wear my "not fitting in" as a badge of honor. I think part of the not fitting in was that when my mom had my older brother Italian tradition is name the first born son after the paternal grandad. Well my mom being the woman she was said I carried him nine months and I'll name him what I please. When she had me she named me after HER father kind of like a big old middle finger to them all. The funny thing is she set the example and most of my male cousins born in 1954 are NOT named after grandpa. My mom - I miss her.

[Skittles]

23. CORRECT

sexism is far more pervasive than racism

[dobleremolque]

10. "presumed virility"

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! <snort!> <giggle.> <mmmmmhh.>

[sanatanadharma]

11. Trump has many failings; Kindergarten was one; never learned "play nice"

The big take away from the, under oath, video deposition released 9/30, is hearing Trump, in his own voice, admitting that he does not think about the consequences of his actions.

Trump fails both intermediate Bhagavad Gita and kindergarten.

[retrowire]

12. i think we're all witnessing something called

Karma.

[Mme. Defarge]

13. Beautiful AND curvy...

n'est-ce pas ?

[renate]

22. I thought the exact same thing! n/t

[SleeplessinSoCal]

14. We need to see an expose on the fakeness of "Reality tv"

The whole world is ill served by the revenue stream that has so many addicted to it.

One example: We go to a charming bed and breakfast in the mountains. The proprietors were approached by a "rescue/fixer upper" production team for doing a makeover. They didn't need one, but they were told that they would provide crappy looking furniture to then be replaced by newer, purchased furniture. We have no idea how this would have worked because they turned the show down. Thankfully.

Also HGTV has been sued over failure to provide quality renovations whuch are sometimes incomplete. House Hunters require the couple to buy a house first before hunting.

All the other shows have gimmicks and scripted parts that are far from reality. Perfect exampke Duck Dynasty. It works. They are virtual scams passing as Reality TV. The smaller the network, the bigger the scam. And we are all dumner for it.

[lillypaddle]

15. I really like Joan

She's a straight shooter and one smart cookie. She is certainly right on the money on this.

[lillypaddle]

16. Hillary should respond when necessary,

but otherwise stay above the fray and not get down and dirty -

"One day in late October
when I was far from sober
returning with my load with manly pride,
my feet began to stutter
so I lay down in the gutter,
and a pig came near and laid down by my side;
A lady passing by was heard to say:
"You can tell a man who boozes,
By the company he chooses,"
and the pig got up and slowly walked away,

-unknown

[mnhtnbb]

17. I am beginning to be concerned for Melania's safety.

Yes, she made a deal with the devil, but she ought to be able to get out safely, if needed.

I hope she has the contacts and ability to make a quick exit if needed. Women who have lived
in abusive relationships need a tremendous amount of support to break free.

[calimary]

19. Either that, or she, too, is on her way to being dumped for a younger version.

I started worrying about her awhile back, when I learned she's 46. Uh-oh...

Wonder if he's already on the look-out for Wife #4?

[calimary]

18. And it appears he's well on his way to being BEATEN BY A GIRL!!!

This is one guy who very badly needs a BIG-TIME dose of humility. Force-fed.

[TomCADem]

20. But He Is Still Winning the Douchebag Vote

I am sure there is a segment of the male population that totally empathize with his views on women.

[Moonwalk]

24. There are ways he could lose the douchebag vote, but it would require....

...the douchebags to realize they're being screwed over by him. Being that they are douchebags, and like their leader, live in their own realities, it's likely that this will never happen.

[no_hypocrisy]

28. DJT earned his karma.

[Bill USA]

30. he's not losing too much...Ha-ha-ha!!