Trump rejects suggestion sexism contributed to Warren's demise
March 6, 2020President Donald Trump on Friday shot down questions about whether sexism grounded the presidential campaign of Elizabeth Warren, one of his perennial punching bags, claiming instead that the Massachusetts senator was done under by a “lack of talent.”
“I think lack of talent was her problem,” Trump told reporters at the White House when asked about the role sexism played in her demise. “She had a tremendous lack of talent. She was a good debater. She destroyed Mike Bloomberg very quickly like it was nothing. That was easy for her but people don't like her.”
But Trump then employed language likely to strike Warren’s defenders as an example of the very gender-coded criticism her male opponents have not faced.
“She is a very mean person and people don't like her. People don't want that,” the president argued.
Trump then claimed that "people like a person like me, who is not mean." It was not clear whether he was joking.
The comments from the president, less than 24 hours after Warren left the Democratic primary without a major female candidate, come amid a raging debate about the role sexism played in the onetime frontrunner’s collapse.
Warren herself tried to dodge the question moments after announcing she would drop out. Still, she acknowledged that it was impossible to disentangle herself from the issue, calling it a “trap question” and pledging to confront the matter more fully at a later date.
"If you say, 'Yeah, there was sexism in this race,' everyone says 'whiner,'" Warren told reporters outside of her home. "And if you say, 'No, there was no sexism,' about a bazillion women think, 'What planet do you live on?''"
Source: https://www.politico.com/
