Donald Trump is not sparing in insults towards Kamala Harris, his rival for the American presidential election. Attacks which add to the numerous odious outings of the Republican candidate against women.
Donald Trump’s harsh remarks towards Kamala Harris punctuated the presidential campaign and more particularly the final months of the race for the White House. The billionaire did not pull any punches in attacking his rival’s skills, despite her career and political rise, to the point of denigrating her intellectual abilities. “Kamala Harris is slow and lethargic when answering even the simplest questions,” said the Republican candidate in a message posted on X a few days ago. With these words, Donald Trump sought to regain the ascendancy after Kamala Harris published the conclusions of her latest cognitive assessment and invited him to do the same. A request to which Donald Trump did not respond.
“Kamala Harris is mentally handicapped” and “retarded,” the Republican candidate already said in September, without arguing for his criticisms. Discriminatory statements for people with mental disabilities in the opinion of certain Republicans, and which reflect Donald Trump’s contempt for the vice-president. Which had nevertheless won a month earlier during the only debate between the two contenders for the presidency of the United States. Kamala Harris was more alert and quick-witted in front of the 78-year-old man.
But Donald Trump varied the pleasures by multiplying the insults. “She was a bum three weeks ago. A failed vice-president in a failed administration,” he said at the end of July after the abandonment of Joe Biden in favor of Kamala Harris. If the Republican candidate for the White House is known for the personal and contemptuous attacks made against those who do not share his opinion, the insults made to Kamala Harris are not just a political strategy and are pure sexism. Many women have paid the price.
Politicians, artists and even his daughter
Like he went after Kamala Harris, Donald Trump has attacked other powerful female politicians: he called former Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi “as crazy as a bedbug “during the summer of 2024, in the middle of the presidential campaign. A habit that is already a few years old since already in 2016, for his first presidential campaign, he attacked the Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton with very misogynistic remarks: “If she cannot satisfy her husband, what is What makes her believe she can satisfy America?
But if there is one type of sexist insults in which Donald Trump has stood out a lot in recent decades, it is physical attacks. Women from diverse backgrounds have come under criticism from the billionaire. Actress and co-host of The View talk show Whoopi Goldberg was described as “dirty and disgusting” on October 9. Influencer and businesswoman Kim Kardashian was criticized for her shape in 2013, when she was one of the most prominent personalities: “Does she have a beautiful body? No. Does she has a big ass? Absolutely,” judged the real estate magnate.
Female artists are not immune to these sexist comments either. “I promise not to talk about your massive cosmetic surgery operations which didn’t work,” he said to the American singer and actress Cher in 2012. Value judgments to which he gives credence under the pretext of ‘having owned the beauty pageants, as he explained in 2007, while attacking Angelina Jolie’s physique: “I own Miss Universe. I own Miss USA. I understand beauty and I can tell you that[Angelina Jolie] is not.”
If Donald Trump is often critical of women, he can also make other inappropriate sexist remarks, as in 2017 when he said to First Lady Brigitte Macron, then 64 years old: “You know, You’re in such good shape. It’s beautiful.” A tone he can have even when talking about his own daughter, Ivanka Trump. “She has a very beautiful figure… If she wasn’t my daughter, maybe I would go out with her,” he said in 2004.
The man has always been confident about his qualities as a seducer, believing that he “could have cornered” Princess Diana in 1997. He even went further in 2005 by evoking situations similar to sexual assault during a TV show: “You know that I am automatically attracted to beautiful women [et] I start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, we let you do it. You can do anything… grab them by the pussy. You can do anything.” Remarks that had already caused controversy before the election of Donald Trump in the 2016 American presidential election.