One day after casting votes for “prominent housewives”, President Donald Trump went on Fox waves and launched a flurry of misogynistic attacks against a number of women in Congress, including sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., And rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, DN.Y.
The president on Thursday called the powerful members of Congress ‘crazy’, ‘stone-cold crazy’ and ‘not even a smart person’ respectively.
Trump slammed the insults in a wide-ranging early-morning interview with Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo, first focused on Harris, who days before was named the first woman of color after a presidential card for big parties.
The president called Harris “a kind of crazy woman” when he reminded viewers of her blasphemous interrogation by Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh during his hearing with the confirmation of the First Chamber.
“She was so angry,” Trump said. “Such hatred against Justice Kavanaugh – I’ve never seen anything like it. She was the most angry of the group, and they were all angry.”
“These are seriously ill people,” he added.
Referring to Black women as “angry” or “crazy” is a racial trope. Earlier in the week, Trump revealed in another interview that presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden had insulted men by promising to choose a woman for a running mate.
“Some people would say that men are insulted by it,” the president said, “and some would say it is good.”
When he added that he was not yet sure in which camp he fit best, Trump said, “I do not know.”
One of the president’s adult sons also took part in the misogynistic move against Harris. Eric Trump on Wednesday “liked” a tweet from right-wing Twitter personality Lori Hendry who called Harris a “whorendous” pick for a running mate.
A day later, the president turned his focus from Harris to a favorite target: Ocasio-Cortez.
“AOC was a poor student. I mean, I will not say where she went to school,” Trump said. “It does not matter.”
“This is not even a smart person other than that she has a good line of stuff,” the president continued before adding, “I mean, she goes out and she yaps.”
Next in line was Pelosi, who preemptively sabotaged Trump with the blame when Republicans recaptured the House in November – a blatant prospect that political experts almost universally believe is out of the question.
“I believe we will take the House back because Nancy Pelosi is stone cold,” the president asserted.
That was far of the first time Trump called Pelosi crazy.
Shortly before the Bartiromo interview, Trump went to another influential woman in politics, tweeting that Mika Brzezinski, the co-host of “Morning Joe” on MSNBC, was the “ditzy airhead woman” of Joe Scarborough. (Trump also called Brezinski’s co-host and husband a ‘complete Psycho’ in the same tweet.)
The day before, Trump tweeted that “suburban housewives” would curse him at the polls after he called for an Obama-era affordable housing program in which “low-income housing would invade their neighborhood.”
Brzezinski used her own program to shoot back Thursday, saying powerful women make Trump “scared like a little baby.”
“What’s your thing with women? You have a lot of problems with women. Like, you’re afraid of them as something,” Brzezinski said. “I think of the Kamala [Harris] thing is you freaked out, but I’ve noticed it’s all over the place. You are really stressed by women. “
“You have to say things that are kind of triggering about women who are back from the fifties,” the MSNBC host continued. “You call us ‘housewives’ when you talk about voters.”
“Every time Kaitlyn Collins from CNN or Paula Reid from CBS … you ask a question, you’re scared off the stage,” she concluded. “You get scared like a little baby.”
