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Trump’s Got a Problem With Women’s Mouths
No matter how much the president curses and sneers, a woman like Elizabeth Warren who speaks her mind is the one who’s profane
Donald Trump really likes talking about women’s mouths — specifically, how offensive he finds it when any words come out of them. At a rally in Pennsylvania this week, the president attacked Senator Elizabeth Warren, saying that she had “became strong” after his “Pocahontas” smear, “but then she opened that fresh mouth of hers.”
It’s not the first time Trump has opined on Warren’s mouth: In 2016, he called her a “big mouth” at a press conference in North Dakota; a month later, he tweeted that she had a “nasty mouth.”
Of course, Warren is just one among dozens of women Trump has maligned over the years; the president has a particular distaste for outspoken women or women who criticize him. He’s called Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, and Meghan Markle “nasty.” (Not to mention he’s also made comments about women’s periods, lied about a female critic having a sex tape, and mocked a woman who accused him of sexual misconduct as being too ugly to sexually assault.)
Earlier this year, he even made fun of teenage activist Greta Thunberg after she gave an…
