Trump on the Equality Act & Women’s Sports

 

Just a couple of minutes where Trump spoke about the Equality Act and specifically its effect on women’s sports. Beyond just this issue clips such as this show how Trump was exactly the kind of person who had to appear for this time. The ferocity and power of the people and institutions he and the rest of us are up against means a well-spoken, pleasant JFK type character would not be appropriate. Even a Martin Luther King would probably be too civilised and decent, if you understand what I’m meaning. The kind of person for the hour had to be an extraordinarily thick-skinned, even ruffian type, who knowing full well the arena he was entering - the endlessness of that world’s power, its total ruthlessness if threatened, its absolute  lack of moral integrity and restraint, its hold over the media and over political institutions worldwide, etc - and yet he would still not back down but go head-on into the fray. Think of how most people would respond to the endless attacks he has faced, including the very recent second impeachment, how shaken and cowed they would be and yet here is how he comes back out. Like him or not, that undaunted warrior spirit is astonishing, and of course that kind of energy cannot but awaken similar energies in others as a consequence.