(Full title: 'This is a message for men': Ex-White House
staffer shreds Trump's 'creepy' remarks)
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Consciously, he was aiming for White women, of
course...unconsciously, it was, as the title here nails,
actually for men...lol...
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CNN's Kate Bedingfield was creeped out by Donald Trump's
obtrusive attempt to win over skeptical women voters, and
the former White House communications director questioned
who the message was actually intended to reach.
The former president told women at a Pennsylvania event
that he was "your protector" and promised to make them
"safe" from illegal immigrants, crime and "foreign
enemies," and he promised that they would not longer need
to worry about many of the issues that define this year's
election.
"You will no longer be abandoned or scared, you won't be
in danger any longer," Trump said, echoing statements he
made on Truth Social. "You will no longer have anxiety
from all of the problems our country has today. You will
be protected and I will be your protector. You will be
happy, healthy, confident and free. You will no longer be
thinking about abortion.”
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Bedingfield, who served president Joe Biden in the first
two years of his presidency, doubted those remarks would
appeal much to any women.
"My God, where there are so many places," Bedingfield
began. "Okay, first of all, I think Trump has no
understanding of why he has a problem with women. First
of all, this is, like, creepy, like, bizarre messaging,
but it's – he's talking at women, not to them, which is a
problem that I think Republicans have across the board.
It's like they think of women as this sort of other
entity. That's not a message to women. That's talking at
women, which I actually think this is a message for men,
not for women."
"I think what Trump is doing here is saying what he
thinks men want to hear. It's, you know, he's trying to
like double down on this idea of like alpha strength, so
I actually think this is not intended to be a message for
women," she continued. "I think, you know, the Trump
campaign has made clear that, you know winning men is a
huge piece, a huge pillar of their strategy."
"I can't imagine a world where women hear that and say,
'This is a guy who understands things that I'm going
through and would be a president with empathy for me,'"
Bedingfield added. "So I think that's him like tripling
down on trying to win men."
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