In his latest attempt to downplay the central issue of this election, Trump insisted he’d eliminate all of women’s problems, making our “lives…happy, beautiful, and great again.” Sure, dude.
Polls have consistently shown that abortion rights will be among the primary issues motivating voters on November 5—the first presidential election since the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health ruling. But that hasn’t stopped Republicans from maintaining the delusion that abortion is a non-issue. In former President Donald Trump’s latest attempt to downplay the role of reproductive rights this election, he wrote in a bizarre, comically out-of-touch Truth Social post on Friday that, actually, women will soon “no longer think about abortion.”
“WOMEN ARE POORER THAN THEY WERE FOUR YEARS AGO, ARE LESS HEALTHY THAN THEY WERE FOUR YEARS AGO… ARE MORE DEPRESSED AND UNHAPPY THAN THEY WERE FOUR YEARS AGO,” the post begins (caps, of course, Trump’s own). It only gets more braindead from there. Trump claims that in his second term, “WOMEN WILL BE HAPPY, HEALTHY, CONFIDENT AND FREE”—so much so that “YOU WILL NO LONGER BE THINKING ABOUT ABORTION,” because, he reasons, the issue will be left up to the states. Of course, abortion laws are currently up to the states—and that’s precisely why some patients are dying or being pushed to the brink of death under abortion bans.
The rest of Trump’s post repeats horrific lies equating abortion with the “EXECUTION OF A BABY AFTER BIRTH.” For the umpteenth time, this is not a thing. “I WILL PROTECT WOMEN AT A LEVEL NEVER SEEN BEFORE. THEY WILL FINALLY BE HEALTHY, HOPEFUL, SAFE, AND SECURE. THEIR LIVES WILL BE HAPPY, BEAUTIFUL, AND GREAT AGAIN!” he concludes.
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Faced with the overwhelming popularity of abortion rights, this is all Republicans have: lies, obfuscation, and delusional, all-caps social media posts pledging to cure American women’s collective depression.
