Ward: I don’t need Donald Trump
October 6, 2015
I hoped I would never have to write this column because for a split second it looked like Americans were coming to their senses as it pertains to Donald Trump. Despite my silent pleas to society and the faith I had in the way I once thought Americans wanted their women to be treated, Trump is back on top.
I watched in horror throughout the summer months as Trump dominated the GOP polls, while Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina stood in his wake, choking on his gold- and insult-laden dust. CNN released results from a poll in mid-September showing that of Republican voters, 51 percent believed Trump was most likely to win the Republican nomination.
As September days dwindled, so did Trump’s gigantic lead in the race, and I thought a speck of sunshine could be found at the end of the joke-of-a-campaign tunnel. But here we are, and The Donald is back on top. As a woman, I could not be more upset with Trump and the American people who support him.
Without hesitation, I’m declaring here and now that if Trump is elected as the next president, I will promptly pack up my things and move to Canada. I wouldn’t be able to catch on to all the different words and social norms, but since Donald Trump does not live there, nothing is wrong with it.
This man — this overprivileged, sexist, business tycoon of a man — stands in the face of the public and does nothing but insult the people he wants to lead in an attempt to “make America great again.” Although, making America great again seems rather counter intuitive because it’s Trump we’re talking about here. If anything, electing him will burn the infrastructure of our country to the ground.
Who in his or her right mind would think insulting one specific gender repeatedly would do anything but put a major chink in our armor?
I’ll set aside his blatantly sexist comments toward women for a moment and address the way Trump insults his colleagues and professionals in various fields. Referring to Fiorina in an interview with Rolling Stone, Trump said, “Look at that face. Would anyone vote for that?”
Who the hell cares what she looks like if she can competently handle the responsibilities of the job?
In another incident, Trump used social media to attack Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly, calling her a bimbo. Women have fought tooth and nail for centuries to establish the fact we are not sexually deviant or promiscuous individuals, and Trump used his influential platform to set us back to a time where belittling women was encouraged.
The man is literally going to undo all the positive societal changes women contributed by fixating on physical features.
I am not a professional and I certainly do not have respect for Trump. This is why it genuinely concerns me to think that a man who goes after women who share the stage with him on a professional level wants to govern women who he won’t ever have to associate with.
Why would he ever have any respect for us? The man has done nothing to indicate he would give two figs about us, and we simply cannot stand for that.
On top of all of this, he made the most obscured and hypocritical comment about wanting to “take care of the women of America.” To be frank, I do not want a man who bases his affinity toward women on their appearance, taking care of me.
Hearing these comments coming out of the mouth of a public figure upsets me enough to want to speak with him face to face and bluntly ask him, “What do I look like to you?”
He doesn’t know my story or aspirations and he doesn’t know the thing’s I’ve faced in life or the people who have molded me. This not only applies to me, but every other woman in America.
And sure, is this the case for the other politicians? Yes. But at least they are trying. At least they make an attempt to listen to our struggles when it comes to sexual assault, gender stigmas, sexual health, abortion rights and other hot topics among women.
I don’t want Trump looking at me like I need his sexist views as guidance. I don’t need Donald Trump at all.