TRUMP CONDEMNED BY HIS OWN WORDS
By Mildred Robertson
As I sat and watched MSBNC on Monday
night, I was amazed as Melania Trump defended her husband by saying that she
knew he was innocent of sexual abuse charges because he is a gentleman. While I empathize with family members who are
thrust into the public eye by the ambitions and/or indiscretions of a loved one, I could not come up with an ounce of sympathy for
Melania.
You see, her
interview did not appear to be that of a dutiful wife who is truly blind to her
husband’s indiscretions and shortcomings. Her appearance instead, appears to be
a calculated attempt to gain sympathy from women voters who are abandoning Trump’s
campaign in droves. She decided to squander what little reputation she has to
argue that all the women who have come forward to confirm the damning
statements made by Trump himself are
somehow liars, or of ill-repute. The Trumps chose to take this approach even
after attacking Hillary Clinton for allegedly doing the same to her husband’s
accusers. They even went so far as to
parade those accusers before Hillary during the 2nd Presidential debate.
Even the debate itself belied
Melania’s description of her husband as he stalked Clinton around the debate
stage. He commented after the debate
that he checked Hillary out from behind and was not impressed; clearly a
statement that a real gentleman would not make. He has spent much of his campaign rating the appearance of women with whom he comes into contact on the campaign trail.
It is also clear that public
discourse during this campaign has been dragged into the gutter based on Trump’s
utterances. He has demonstrated that he has no respect for women, children
(including his own), the military and their families, minorities, immigrants, the
physically challenged, both the Democratic and Republican parties and various
of their members, religion, the media …. Must I go on? His comments about these
groups are clearly not those of a gentleman.
That a woman would “stand by her
man” is not a novel concept. I am sure
Melania Trump knows exactly who Donald is. I understand it. I even have
compassion for her as her family endures this very public humiliation. If she chooses to forgive her man’s
indiscretions, no matter how reprehensible, that is her personal decision to
make. If she decides to discount her husband’s own words, and buy into the
conspiracy theory being promoted by Trump and his campaign, I say to her “do
whatever allows you to sleep at night.” But to defend the indefensible; cloak
it in gentility and ask America to accept it as its own truth is inexcusable.
It is an insult to all the true gentlemen in this world.
You see, in my 64 years on earth,
I have never heard a gentleman call a woman a “bi..ch” or a “cu_t.” That is not to say that I have not heard such
words, though I don’t believe I have ever actually heard someone called the “c”
word. And while the “b” word is used
fairly commonly, I suggest that is not common terminology for one who considers
himself to be a gentleman. It is not common practice for a gentleman to grab a
woman in her crotch, or otherwise, without her consent. It is not the general
behavior of a gentleman to simply kiss a woman because he chooses to do so, with no
indication from the woman that those advances are acceptable. Gentlemen do not commonly stroll into a woman’s
dressing room and observe her in various stages of undress without her
permission. Gentlemen do not refer to
their offspring as a “nice piece of ass.” These are all things gentlemen do not
do. But based upon interviews, and video and audio tapes of Trump himself,
these are common practices for him.
So I do not know where Melania got her definition of a gentleman. But I have to emphatically say, “No,
Melania,” Donald Trump is NOT a gentleman!
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