Former Trump Official Rips Ex-President’s ‘Creepy’ Message to Women: ‘It’s Very Infantilizing’

Former Trump White House official Alyssa Farah Griffin tore into former President Donald Trump’s bizarre message to women this week, describing it as “creepy” and “infantilizing.”

During a campaign rally in Indiana, Pennsylvania on Monday, Trump issued a “statement to the great women of our country.”

“I am your protector. I want to be your protector,” he said. “You will no longer be abandoned, lonely, or scared. You will no longer be in danger. You’re not going to be in danger any longer. You will no longer have anxiety from all of the problems our country has today. You will be protected, and I will be your protector. Women will be happy, healthy, confident, and free. You will no longer be thinking about abortion!”

Reacting to Trump’s message on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360, Tuesday, Griffin said:

I started laughing and thinking it was creepy, but then thinking more about it, it’s very infantilizing. Talking about women as though we’re weak, we’re meek, we need a protector, we need a defender, and we just sit around thinking about abortions all day. It just underscores a fundamental lack of understanding for why a demographic that represents half of the country is one that he is struggling so profoundly with.

I think Donald Trump, if he loses this election, is going to look back and think that one of the worst decisions he made was not having a female on the ticket who actually knows how to speak to living, breathing, normal women about issues that matter to them.

The former White House director of strategic communications concluded, “Yes, reproductive rights do matter, access to IVF, to the whole suite of care that women care about, whether abortion or so on, but economics and national security are also women’s issues, and just the way he is talking about them is not the way to sway voters in the middle.”

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