Donald Trump, a man who has been accused of sexually harassing or assaulting 19 different women, has declared that April 2018 will be National Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month. The proclamation itself is so full of hypocrisy that it almost makes you feel physically ill, and so I just had to go through it line-by-line. I really this were an April Fool’s Day joke, TMSers.
“Sexual assault crimes remain tragically common in our society,” wrote a man accused by nearly a score of women.
“And offenders too often evade accountability,” continued a man who was elected president despite these accusations.
“These heinous crimes are committed indiscriminately: in intimate relationships, in public spaces, and in the workplace,” wrote a man who was accused of sexually assaulting women in all three of these scenarios, including a later recanted accusation of raping his first wife Ivana, an accusation of groping a woman on a plane, and an accusation of forcibly kissing a receptionist who worked at Trump Tower.
“We must respond to sexual assault by identifying and holding perpetrators accountable,” wrote a man who endorsed an alleged sexual predator for Alabama Senate.
“Too often, however, the victims of assault remain silent,” wrote a man whose lawyers allegedly threatened a woman he consensually slept with after she tried to sell her story.
“They may fear retribution from their offender, lack faith in the justice system, or have difficulty confronting the pain associated with the traumatic experience,” wrote a man who callously bragged on tape about grabbing women “by the pussy.”
“My Administration is committed to raising awareness about sexual assault and to empowering victims to identify perpetrators so that they can be held accountable,” wrote a man whose press secretary said all of his accusers were lying.
“We must make it as easy as possible for those who have suffered from sexual assault to alert the authorities and to speak about the experience with their family and friends,” wrote a man man whose Secretary of Education eliminated guidance for helping sexual assault victims on college campuses.
“We must encourage victims to report sexual assault and law enforcement to hold offenders accountable,” wrote a man who personally eliminated worker protections against forced arbitration, which his favorite news channel allegedly attempted to use to silence Gretchen Carlson when she said she experienced workplace sexual harassment.
“And we must support victims and survivors unremmittingly,” continued a man who is being sued for defamation by one of his alleged victims, Summer Zervos, after he publicly said, “Every woman lied when they came forward to hurt my campaign.”
Fuck this proclamation.
Donald Trump is in the White House, so we are all already constantly, constantly aware of the fact that men who are accused of sexual misconduct get away with it. We don’t need him to dedicate a symbolic month to that fact; it’s the moral of his whole damn life.
(via HuffPost; image: Shutterstock)
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