By making a rape accusation an issue of a woman’s beauty, he’s carrying on the strongman misogyny of his campaign
It’s no longer novel to point out how much has changed in America since Donald Trump was elected, and it hasn’t been for some time. But it remains important. We find ourselves at a time when the president of the United States has now been accused of a sexual assault by a total of 22 women. And a recent allegation—of a 1990s rape—is the most serious yet.
I read the piece without pause, to its last devastating sentence. The next day, the only major U.S. newspaper to put the story on its front page was the Washington Post. Sunday morning talk shows largely passed it over. The president knows that by making a rape accusation an issue of a woman’s beauty, he’s simply carrying on the strongman misogyny entwined in his campaign. Trump is obsessed with women’s physical appearances. He’s called women “horseface,” “fat,” “ugly,” “dog,” with “the face of a pig” and mocked women’s plastic surgery; on the flipside, he’s gushed about his own daughter’s looks.
Journalists and media observers have been spending recent days wondering why Carroll’s accusation hasn’t caused so much as a shrug. It went notably unmentioned in the 2020 Democratic Primary debates. While candidate Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand has tweeted she believes Carroll, House Leader Nancy Pelosi has suggested there isn’t a clear role for Congress to play in investigating the claim.
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