My niece thinks he’s scary. That’s what I keep coming back to, time and again, when I think about what young girls must know in the age of Trumpism. My niece thinks the 45th President of the United States is scary.
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If you’re under the age of 35, you’ve been there. Show an interest in transient, material things — such as fashion or pop culture — and you’re tsked for not focusing on more important issues.
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In a January 14 interview on CNN, Trump surrogate Ben Ferguson responded to Rep. John Lewis’ (D-GA) assertion that Trump is not a legitimate president by saying, “It is unprecedented. … I cannot imagine the fallout … if a Republican had ever implied that about Barack Obama.”
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We’re just a few short hours away from the end of Barack Obama’s presidency, and many of us who won’t be on our way to Washington or participating in active protests on Friday wonder what the best way is to protest Trump’s inauguration from home.
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In a November 10 article for The Guardian, A Black Man in the White House author Cornell Belcher calls Donald Trump’s electoral victory an “inevitable” response to the last eight years, saying that the GOP candidate “took full advantage of a racial backlash to the presidency of Barack Obama.”
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On December 12, women in 18 cities across the U.S. went on strike to protest the impending election of Donald J. Trump to the country’s highest office.
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Today, more than ever before, it’s important that we do as much as we can to stop the normalization of Donald Trump in the media and in our homes. Whatever has happened in the last few hours, days, or weeks to outrage and harm us, no matter how far we are into Trump’s tenure as president, our mission remains the same.
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Less than one month after he won the general election, Donald Trump has failed to blossom into the “presidential” president-elect his handlers promised months ago.
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In January 2017, Republicans will control both houses of Congress and the presidency. Yes, there are circumstances under which a candidate other than Donald Trump could assume the highest office in the U.S., but a revolt of the Electoral College, while legal, would be unprecedented.
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The U.S. election period has been a trying time for citizens and non-citizens, residents and non-residents alike. Televisions, newsfeeds, and timelines have been full of politically divisive rhetoric, vitriol, and fear-mongering.
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The nation is still reeling from the results of last night’s elections. Some of its citizens are weeping tears of frustration and sadness, while others are celebrating like they haven’t celebrated in years. You can probably guess which camp Lady Clever falls into.
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The biggest bombshell of the 2016 presidential election was not Hillary Clinton’s email troubles or Donald Trump’s loss of Twitter privileges. Instead, it was a study from University of Michigan researchers proving that misogyny is a bigger indicator of Trump support than racism.
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