With the election only weeks away, our beautiful, quick-witted First Lady Michelle Obama is not here for presidential candidate Donald Trump and his incessant sorcery.
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While campaigning for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton last week, FLOTUS gave an emotional speech in which she rebuked Trump for bragging about using his celebrity and power to sexually assault women.
His remarks were heard on a 2005 video of Trump talking with Billy Bush on a bus for the TV show Access Hollywood. Since the Washington Post’s release of the video and audio, several women have come out detailing the ways Trump violated their bodies in past encounters.
Trump said all of the allegations against him are “lies.” During the last presidential debate, Trump even referred to his comments about groping and kissing women as “locker-room talk.”
Mrs. Obama wasn’t going to let Trump shrug this off so easily.
“The shameful comments about our bodies, the disrespect of our ambitions and intellect, the belief that you can do anything you want to a woman, it is cruel,” Obama said at the New Hampshire rally for Clinton.
“The men in my life do not talk about women like this and I know that my family is not unusual,” Obama continued. “And to dismiss this as everyday locker room talk is an insult to decent men everywhere.”
Obama’s words come at a time when more and more conversations are being had about rape culture, women’s bodies and consent. The discussion hit a plateau with the promotion of actor/director Nate Parker’s film, Birth of A Nation, a few months ago.
Parker was accused of raping a young woman as a college athlete at the Penn State in the 1990s. His seemingly arrogant, “male privilege,” way of talking about the rape charge, of which he was cleared, rubbed people the wrong way. In protest of Parker, many pledged not to support his film, which tells the story of a slave revolt led by Nat Turner in Virginia.
Though the allegations against Trump haven’t led to any criminal charges, it’s interesting to see many Republicans chose not to withdraw their support.
In fact, new reports say that tech-giant Peter Thiel plans to donate $1.25 million to Trump’s campaign. He’s one of many who are unbothered by Trump’s sexist actions against women.
Those actions include allegations from 74-year-old Jessica Leeds that Trump grabbed her breasts and tried to put his hand up her skirt on a plane in the 1980s, that Trump allegedly stuck his hand up Kristin Anderson’s skirt at a Manhattan night club in the 1990s and that he allegedly walked into the dressing room of the 1997 Miss Teen USA Pageant competitors while they were changing.
“This is not normal. This is not politics as usual,” Obama said during her speech. “This has got to stop right now.”
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