Trump called ABC News correspondent Rachel Scott a bitch, and I think we’re long past the point where anyone with a functioning conscience should be expected to shrug and mutter, “Well, that’s just Trump being Trump.” No. That phrase has done enough damage already. It’s the anesthetic we’ve used to numb ourselves to behavior that would have politically incinerated any other president in modern American history. Two professional lip readers independently confirmed what the video appeared to show: as Trump walked away from the press gaggle at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, he muttered, “She’s a bitch,” in Rachel Scott’s direction. The White House, naturally, offered no clarification. No apology. No denial worth taking seriously. Just the usual strategic silence that follows whenever this man says the quiet part out loud and hopes the outrage cycle burns itself out by dinner.
And what exactly provoked His Fragile Majesty this time? Journalism. Rachel Scott did her job. She asked an entirely legitimate question about why this administration appears preoccupied with beautification vanity projects while Americans are dealing with spiking gas prices against the backdrop of yet another Trump-fueled geopolitical mess in Iran. A straightforward question. The kind reporters are supposed to ask. Trump’s response was the usual slurry of grievance and invented drama, claiming Scott “probably don’t see dirt,” insisting the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool had been some sort of national biohazard requiring “11 or 12 truckloads of garbage” to be hauled away, as though the place had been abandoned since the Eisenhower administration. That’s nonsense. The reflecting pool undergoes regular maintenance, including draining and cleaning, as part of standard federal upkeep. But facts have always been optional when Trump needs a dramatic set piece for his performance of wounded masculinity.
This is not just about one ugly muttered insult. This is about a man with a long, unmistakable record of directing particular venom toward Black women who dare challenge him publicly. Maxine Waters? “Low IQ.” Kamala Harris? “Low IQ.” April Ryan. Yamiche Alcindor. Abby Phillip. And now Rachel Scott. The pattern is not subtle enough to require forensic analysis. When Black women do their jobs with intelligence, composure, and precision in Trump’s orbit, he does not engage on substance. He lashes out. He demeans. He attempts to diminish. It’s the behavioral vocabulary of a man who sees confident women, particularly Black women, not as professionals doing their jobs, but as threats to be put back in their place.
And here’s the truly pathetic part: Black women are statistically among the most educated demographics in this country, which makes Trump’s lazy insult repertoire not just racist and misogynistic, but spectacularly ignorant. The man who confuses confidence with insolence and accountability with disrespect continues to reveal exactly who he is, and yet somehow we are still asked, by some corners of this exhausted country, to treat each new offense like an isolated misunderstanding instead of what it plainly is: a character flaw so deeply embedded it has become governing style.
No. We are done normalizing this.
This is not “Trump being Trump.”
This is a president of the United States behaving like a bitter, insecure bully every time an intelligent woman refuses to play decorative furniture in his presence. And yes, that matters.
—Michael Jochum, Not Just a Drummer: Reflections on Art, Politics, Dogs, and the Human Condition
@elonmusk I just don’t understand why people idolize this Nazi fukkker. He’s got a grade school knowledge of logic, spews fallacies to get attention, and is obviously on the wrong end of the spectrum. “Oh, Space X, Tesla!” Daddy’s slaver money bought him big companies, yay. Fukkk him.
@MattMoneymaker1 And when you talk about following the money, and people trying to make bank off of Bigfoot, somewhere inside you MUST realize you’re the worst one to be criticizing anyone for trying to make money off of a totally fake monster.
“That’s what squatches do!” is such a huge lie!
@MattMoneymaker1 Supposedly? If people cannot tell the difference between the costume in the PGF and the costume in this rehearsal/recreation film, then your fundamental claim that a Bigfoot costume could not be made in 1966/1967/1968 is blown out of the water. Get it?
@MIbeertaster@MattMoneymaker1@FAB87F If it was indeed one of her primary sources of income, why wouldn’t she sit tight on the fact it was a hoax. Apparently in the film she says it has been a nightmare for her. Finally maybe the truth revealed will set her free of it all.
@thematthew@itsdeaann Apparently what Jones had done was considered far less of a problem than what Miyares had done. It’s not so much that Democrats preferred Jones’ nastiness, but rather that Miyares was considered SO much worse.
@jareddavisoba@itsdeaann If the blue states separated from the red states, the red states woukd starve. Blue states pay more than they take, and red states take more than they pay. Facts.
@EvanAKilgore Looks like Evan’s struggling 2 reconcile his worship for the top American pedophile with a fake hatred of pedophiles. Sucks to be in a cult that has as its foundation the very things that one claims (falsely) to rage against. Dude sold his soul & doesn’t recognize buyers remorse.
@SenAdamSchiff DO something about it!!! That’s why you were elected, so DO something about it. If you don’t, you’ll be voted out and likely indicted, charged, and ruined. Just like the Democrats are allowing the country to crumble. Do your job!
@ArkhamStealth@SouthPark You speak meme. Too bad you can’t handle rational, independent thought. Fucking buttercups, kneeling down in servitude to the most disgusting leader this country has ever had. You worship a pedo. You’ve got NOTHING to say of consequence. You WISH you could get away with it too.
@MTGSnackattack@awastedgenius@SouthPark You can’t reason with a MAGAT. They’ve some their logical processors in favor of a king termite. Whatever he says, they will believe. They have given up their rational mind in favor of servitude. Their loss, and since they vote, our loss as well. Fuck them.
@awastedgenius@SouthPark I thought this was sarcasm, but following comments show otherwise. This fuckwit actually believes the garbage he says! I’m always amazed at how fucked up cult member mentality can be. MAGAts are unlike any other animal on earth. They have disabled their logical survival instincts
@awastedgenius@SouthPark Trump has never laughed on camera. Nobody has EVER reported seeing him laugh. He has no sense of humor. His most pleasurable “smile” is a sneer that comes when he’s pissed at being made a fool of and he’s seething over how he’ll get revenge, or when he knows someone is suffering.