Trump Creepily Thanks Supporters’ Husbands for Allowing Them to Attend His Rallies

Why is Donald Trump currently losing to Kamala Harris by double digits when it comes to female voters? Perhaps it’s the fact that he has a long history of referring to various women as “dogs.” Or maybe it’s his stance on reproductive rights, and the fact that he once said there “has to be some form of punishment” for women who obtain illegal abortions. Or it could be that he’s said he’s fine with states tracking individual pregnancies for the purpose of prosecuting people who undergo the procedure. Or maybe it’s that he regularly disparages the intelligence of women he doesn’t like, and calls them ugly. Or, conceivably, it might be that he was found liable for sexually abusing writer E. Jean Carroll, and that the judge overseeing the case publicly stated the jury concluded he raped her.

Likely, it’s some combination of all of these things, plus the fact that, as he suggested at a rally last weekend, he appears to believe women are the property of the men they’re married to.

Yes, at a Pennsylvania event on Friday, Trump told the crowd: “Somebody said, ‘Women don’t like Donald Trump.’ I said, ‘I think that’s wrong. I think they love me. I love them.’” Pointing to a group of “beautiful,” “perfectly coiffed” women who have apparently attended more than 200 of his events, he said: “They’re wealthy as hell. Look at them. They’ve got nothing but cash. Their husbands are great. But they allow them to go all over the country.” Then he recounted pressing those husbands about how they “put up” with their wives leaving the house, claiming he asked the men, “How do you put up with this? Your wives are traveling all over the place. Do you mind?” According to Trump, they responded, “We trust them, sir. We trust them implicitly.”

The ex-president’s comments come on the heels of remarks made by his running-mate, JD Vance, that wouldn’t be out of place in an episode of The Handmaid’s Tale. Among other things, Vance has dubbed people who don’t have children “childless cat ladies” and said they don’t have a “direct stake” in the country. In a recently unearthed podcast clip from 2021, he declares that people “who can’t have kids” because they “passed the biological period when it was possible” are “miserable” people who “have no real value system” whose lives lack “meaning.”

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Vance has also previously compared abortion to slavery, and said, of exceptions for rape and incest, “It’s not whether a woman should be forced to bring a child to term, it’s whether a child should be allowed to live, even though the circumstances of that child’s birth are somehow inconvenient or a problem to the society.” To be clear, the “circumstances” in this case are rape and incest.

Anyway, yeah, it’s a real wonder that the Trump-Vance ticket is trailing Harris-Walz by 13 points with women voters.