‘Rock Bottom Is No Impediment for a President Who Can Always Find Room for a New Low’
The USA Today Editorial Board has just published a scathing rebuke of President Donald Trump, prompted by his misogynistic, sexist, and sexually harassing tweet attacking Democratic U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand.
“A president who’d all but call a senator a whore is unfit to clean toilets in Obama’s presidential library or to shine George W. Bush’s shoes,” it begins.
Despite White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ lie that Trump’s tweet was neither sexist nor unusual, USA Today writes:
“With his latest tweet, clearly implying that a United States senator would trade sexual favors for campaign cash, President Trump has shown he is not fit for office. Rock bottom is no impediment for a president who can always find room for a new low.”
Obama and Bush, the paper’s editorial board continues, “broke promises and told untruths, but the basic decency of each man was never in doubt.” They then turn to Trump, calling him “uniquely awful” and describing his behavior as “sickening” and “corrosive.”
It should surprise no one how low he went with Gillibrand. When accused during the campaign of sexually harassing or molesting women in the past, Trump’s response was to belittle the looks of his accusers. Last October, Trump suggested that he never would have groped Jessica Leeds on an airplane decades ago: “Believe me, she would not be my first choice, that I can tell you.†Trump mocked another accuser, former People reporter Natasha Stoynoff, “Check out her Facebook, you’ll understand.â€Â Other celebrities and politicians have denied accusations, but none has stooped as low as suggesting that their accusers weren’t attractive enough to be honored with their gropes.
If recent history is any guide, the unique awfulness of the Trump era in U.S. politics is only going to get worse. Trump’s utter lack of morality, ethics and simple humanity has been underscored during his 11 months in office.
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