I remember how back in third grade, my teacher asked us who we would vote for. Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton, and we would color in a drawing of the person we chose. I chose Hillary Clinton. I didn’t watch the news, and I couldn’t vote. I was a kid, and my reasons were simple: I just thought we could finally have our first female president. Now forced to pick between the two of them, I would still choose her, if only because I hate Trump.
I despise Donald Trump, and I can’t see how anyone supports him. My three main reasons are how he treats women, his involvement in slave labor, and his hypocrisy.
Donald Trump is the father of two women, 44-year-old Ivanka and 32-year-old Tiffany Trump. In a 1994 interview with Trump and his then-wife, Marla Maples, aired during an episode of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, it showed him talking about the legs and breasts of his year old daughter. “I think that she’s got a lot of Marla, she’s really a beautiful baby,” Trump said. “She’s got Marla’s legs. We don’t know whether or not she’s got this part yet, but time will tell,” he said as he held his hands up to his chest to mime breasts.
He was talking about his 1-year-old daughter’s legs and future boobs.
This is just one of many times he has made these comments towards his daughters and women in general. During an appearance on the ABC talk show The View, Trump remarked, “If Ivanka weren’t my daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her.”
On October 7, 2016, before the United States presidential election that year, The Washington Post published a video and article about then-presidential candidate Donald Trump and television host Billy Bush having a conversation about women. Trump described his attempt to “seduce” a married woman. Saying, “I moved on her actually. You know she was down on Palm Beach. I moved on her, and I failed. I’ll admit it. I did try and f*** her, she was married,” and “I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything … Grab ’em by the p****. You can do anything.”
At least four women who competed in a Miss Teen USA beauty pageant told BuzzFeed News that Donald Trump walked into their dressing room. Trump already referred to this practice during a 2005 interview on The Howard Stern Show. Saying he could “get away with things like that” because he owned the Miss Universe franchise.
The contestants, as young as 15 years old, were changing.
E. Jean Carroll sued Trump for defamation and sexual assault. Trump claimed he never met her, but he was confronted with photo evidence saying otherwise. Trump also tried to defend himself by stating that Carroll was “not [his] type”, and yet he mistook her photo for one of his wives. She used the dress she wore as evidence; all he had to do was submit DNA. If he was telling the truth, it would’ve proven him innocent. Anyone falsely accused of something horrible would do everything possible to clear their name. He refused and was found guilty.
Since the 1970s, at least 28 women have accused Donald Trump of various acts of sexual misconduct, including rape, kissing, and groping. Looking under women’s skirts and walking in on naked TEENAGE pageant contestants. Donald Trump has both said and done horrible things to multiple women.
I was scrolling on TikTok and, as one does, came across a video on Donald Trump. It didn’t surprise me; what did surprise me was the fact that it said that Donald Trump was involved in slavery.
The US’s police system was originally built to bring back slaves after they ran away. “Modernized police actually emerged in the South during slavery—they literally were slave catchers,” wrote Scalawag Magazine. This, in and of itself, is horrible.
Despite what most believe, slavery still exists even in the USA, just under different names. Prisons use prisoners as cheap/free labor. The 13th Amendment prohibits slavery, but allows involuntary servitude as punishment for a crime. If you can make them a “criminal,” you can make them work.
“Trump in Dubai & China in Africa (VICE on HBO: Season 4, Episode 10)” is a documentary free on YouTube. It shows the behind-the-scenes of the construction in Dubai, and Trump’s international golf club. It shouldn’t come as a shock that Dubai, a city “globally renowned as a futuristic metropolis and luxury tourist destination” catering to the rich, exploits the poor.
Dubai asks for workers; they offer work for $3 per hour, a room, gas, 8-hour shifts, and 2 hours overtime.
Once they arrive, they take their passports and charge them more than they can make. 7 bedrooms, 15-20 workers in one room each, forced to share because they can barely afford rent, and charged renewal fees for passports they don’t even have. When strikes were attempted, the police came and said, “Striking is against the law here,” all while beating the ones trying to hide or run. They aren’t allowed to work for other companies to make money if they try C.I.D. (Criminal Investigation Department) will catch them and cancel their visa, meaning no re-entry. They need to pay even more to get their passports back.
They are charged double and paid half; you need money to leave money they don’t have, and aren’t even given the chance to earn. As said in the documentary, “The workers don’t want much, just want what they were promised, which isn’t a whole lot.”
Trump was confronted about this by Molly Crabapple. She asked, “The workers who build your villas make less than $200 a month. Are you satisfied?” He stayed silent. The documentary is at least 8 years old.
He knew then, he knows now, and he does not care.
They were asked, “Do you think there’s any chance things will improve?” They then responded, “No, we have no hope our situation will ever improve.”
This is nothing new; he has done this in America, this is how he made his hotels. The prison’s form of slavery isn’t working, so they created a new one. A new form of free labor, built on lies and exploitation. A system built on slaves.
Trump has not once apologized; all he has done is make excuses. His most famous excuse? Saying it was a joke.
To me, the most ridiculous part of all, to me at least, is his hypocrisy.
A 1940 census form filed by Mary Anne and her husband, Fred Trump, stated that she was a naturalized citizen. His mother, Mary Anne MacLeod Trump, is an immigrant. She did not become a US citizen until March 10, 1942, at least 10 years later. She was a poor immigrant housemaid, like so many other immigrants, who came to America hoping for a better future. As Scottish newspaper The National put it, “[she] started life in America as a dirt-poor servant escaping the even worse poverty of her native land.” His family would not survive the very policies he is pushing.
Donald Trump said he aimed to terminate birthright citizenship for children born in the United States to undocumented immigrants and certain temporary residents.
So by his own standards, would he not be deported?
Honestly, I don’t know enough about Mary Anne MacLeod to have an opinion. From what I have heard, she was a “devoted housewife” and a known philanthropist, supporting organizations for cerebral palsy and intellectually disabled adults. I don’t hate his mother; this isn’t about her. Frankly, there isn’t enough about her. This is about her son’s hypocrisy.
This is not about him and his family being immigrants; this is about him building his entire political career around demonizing immigrants when he is the son of an immigrant. The only reason he isn’t in jail and pushing these policies is that he can. His money, his own power, and that of his friends are protecting him.
President Bill Clinton was impeached by the House of Representatives, largely due to his affair with Monica Lewinsky. I reference this because I simply don’t understand. If an affair can be enough to help push the impeachment of a president up for re-election, how did Donald Trump get this far? Most of this was known before he first became president.
What I hate the most is that there is likely more. More is being kept secret; what is not secret is his past relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted sex offender and known child sex trafficker.
Trump said he would have “no issue” releasing the Epstein files, all of them. It was a huge part of his campaign, and it still has yet to happen; what has been released has been heavily censored. Regardless of the extent of his involvement, given his history, it is highly unlikely he was completely ignorant.
Trump has tried repeatedly to shift focus; he has requested investigations by the DOJ into the links between Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, Reed Hoffman, JP Morgan, and others to Jeffrey Epstein.
Let me make one thing clear: people want the truth, both Republicans and Democrats want the files released. Real people were affected; this is not just about someone’s political beliefs. We don’t care about who on the list belongs to which political party. Republican or Democrat, a rapist is still a rapist.
I have done my best to cite my sources and not get too emotional. I know that saying he’s an ugly orange with stupid hair isn’t enough. I’m not talking about whether or not he should be president, or even if he’s qualified to be president. I am talking about him as a person.
With the insane things he has done and is currently trying to do as president involving multiple different people, it is nearly impossible to keep up. Each could be its own article.
That is why I decided to try sticking to 3 subjects and find as much evidence as I can. Even with all I have written, there are still more victims we don’t know about. Donald Trump is, at the very least, a convicted rapist who profited off slavery, who constantly lies.
Worst of all, he is likely much, much worse.
This is why I can not understand how or why people support Trump. I still don’t understand how he isn’t in jail, much less how he became the President of the United States of America.
