Jessica Valenti
Women for Trump Is a Motley Crew of Bigots and Frauds
They’re the ‘squad’ you should actually be worried about
Donald Trump has doubled down over the last week on his racist attacks targeting “the squad” of four congresswomen of color, tweeting that they are incapable of loving America, calling them a “Racist group of troublemakers,” and telling a room full of teenagers at a conservative youth conference that Rep. Rashida Tlaib is a “crazed lunatic,” and that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez “called our country and our people ‘garbage.’” (She did not.)
The president’s obsession with Tlaib, Ocasio-Cortez, and Reps. Ayanna Pressley and Ilhan Omar is in part political — he believes it will fire up his base — but it’s also a reflection of his misogyny: Trump can only tolerate certain kinds of women. Those who speak their mind and don’t fawn over him simply don’t fit the bill.
The women Trump does abide are… let’s say, in a league of their own. Last week, the president’s campaign launched “Women for Trump” — an initiative to win over female voters in 2020. At one event, advisory board member Danielle D’Souza Gill (daughter of disgraced conspiracy theorist Dinesh D’Souza) tweeted a picture of herself alongside other “Women for Trump” supporters with the caption “Our squad is…
