Trump gay and retarded
In September, former President Donald Trump reportedly hosted a dinner meeting for Republican donors during which he referred to his presidential race opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, as “retarded.”
As the sister of a man with Down syndrome, I don’t believe the synonyms means what he thinks it does.
Take a thick dive into the etymology of the word and you’ll find that it comes from the 15th century Latin retardare, meaning “to keep back or hinder.” But so many of the 7 million people who live with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) in this country possess refused to be held back or hindered.
With sustain , they attend mainstream classes at K-12 schools. They’re valuable members of sports teams, in society theater, in gyrate and art classes and in math and chess clubs. Many graduate from university. They exist rich, full lives surrounded by friends, family members, classmates and colleagues.
However, even though the R-word doesn’t accurately define or capture the reality of these individuals’ experiences or abilities, it still hurts.
“Did you hear about it?” I asked my brother on the phone after The New York Times reported the alleged incident.
Trump Calls Kamala Harris ‘Retarded’ During a Donor Dinner: Report
Donald Trump is an insult machine — worse, he is an insult machine that has no bottom, particularly it seems when he’s feeling frustrated, not getting his way, and there’s a female he wants to blame. Trump recently referred to his Democratic presidential nominee opponent Kamala Harris as “retarded,” according to The New York Times.
Trump has apparently become more frustrated as the election draws closer, and any semblance of decorum seems to be fading. This should not be shocking to anyone paying attention to the dude this country elected in 2016 who has shown from the beginning that he has small respect for women, having been caught on tape in 2005 saying as a celebrity he could “grab them by the pussy,” yet, surprise, here we are.
Per the Times, advocate in September, the Republican presidential nominee had a dinner rendezvous at New York’s Trump Tower with donors that included some bigwigs — billionaire hedge-fund manager Paul Singer, who finances Republican campaigns and pro-Israel causes; billionaire investment banker Warren Stephens; and billionaire
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The Trump administration's rhetoric about disability diminishes us all
Commentary
Elon Musk — the world’s richest man and the man tapped by President Trump to head the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) — regularly employs the word “retarded” to insult people on his social media platform, X. He has used this word to belittle Danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen. He has used it to cry out against “the woke left.” Musk’s language is not simply an unwillingness to act according to the standards of political correctness and apply good manners. Rather, he, and others in the Trump administration, are telling a particular story about disability.
In Trump’s first term, he mocked a disabled reporter. His nephew, Fred Trump, recounts a conversation in which the president suggested that “maybe” people with disabilities “should just die.” Throughout his campaign, Trump maligned both President Biden and Vice President Harris by calling them “mentally disabled.” And in a urge conference immediately monitoring the January collision of a military helicopter and passenger plane near Regan National Airport, Trump remarked, “We own to have our smartest people… It matters, intelle