never forget: Donald Trump called for women having abortions to be “punished”

he’s counting on voters being too dim to remember

in 2016, during an MSNBC town hall, host Chris Matthews asked then-candidate Little Donny Fuckface the following question:

“do you believe in punishment for abortion, yes or no, as a principle?”

the hamster on the wheel inside Donny’s head frantically started running twice as fast as Donny scrambled for an answer — because he had no opinion. prior to that moment, the only times Trump had ever thought about abortion were when he had to pay for one.

oh, and there was the time he asked then-wife Marla Maples to abort Tiffany.

after a few spins around the wheel, the hamster blurted out the following response:

“the answer is that there has to be some sort of punishment.”

for the woman?

“yeah, there has to be some form.”

this answer was Peak Fucking Trump, because first, it fed into his retribution and cruelty fetish — and second, because it was what he thought his base wanted to hear.

Donny never got to realize his dream of women imprisoned for healthcare, but as president he got to appoint the three god-mad extremist Supreme Court Justices who would go on to kill Roe.

Trump has been super fucking proud of this accomplishment. bragging about ending Roe is now part of every campaign appearance.

“the fact is I was able to terminate Roe v Wade after fifty years of trying. they worked for fifty years, I’ve never seen anything like it. and I was even — I was so honored to have done it.”

but there’s just one little problem: anti-abortion candidates have been getting slaughtered at the polls these days. women — and men — are pissed off and doing something about it.

and so yesterday, Donny proclaimed that he had a BIG ANNOUNCEMENT — but unlike his other recent BIG ANNOUNCEMENTS, this one wasn’t about spray painted gold sneakers or blasphemous bibles or any of the cheap clownfuckery Trump generally foists on his gullible cultists. no ma’am, what Donny was selling this time was a lie.

“Many people have asked me what my position is on abortion and abortion rights,” Trump said in the video posted on his Truth Social site. “My view is now that we have abortion where everybody wanted it from a legal standpoint, the states will determine by vote or legislation or perhaps both. And whatever they decide must be the law of the land — in this case, the law of the state.”

oh please. this was one hundred percent ass-covering political expediency. tell the people what they want to hear is right there on page one of the huckster’s handbook.

“abortion should be left to the states” is the lie that wingnuts tell us while they work tirelessly on a national abortion ban.

GOP strategists know Trump’s words were a smokescreen. here’s Newt Gingrich on Fox News this morning, giving the game away:

“most of the right-to-life leaders understand exactly what president Trump’s trying to do. he’s trying to reach the largest possible number of babies saved. he’s trying to create the best possible environment in the current culture and in the current laws, and he’s doing it in a way which is extraordinarily pro-life, without alienating people with the kind of fearmongering the Democrats have. I thought what he did, his statement was exactly right. I think people ought to read it carefully and think about it.”

let me cut through Newt’s bullshit and translate it:

Trump’s position hasn’t changed, and we’re all counting on voters being too fucking dim to notice.

a national ban on abortion is still part of Project 2025’s agenda. Holy Mike Johnson and the god-botherer caucus still dream of it. here’s what’s going to happen if King Fuckface the First regains power next year and the GOP controls the House and Senate: big strong evangelicals, barely able to see through the tears of gratitude streaming down their cheeks, are going to come up to Trump and say, “sir! sir! we’ve brought you legislation for a nationwide ban on abortion. just sign your name right here.”

let’s not forget the Federalist Society. those shitheels will be handing Trump a list of pre-approved zealot judges — the whackjob kind who will gleefully outlaw in-vitro fertilization because it’s the devil’s tool or some such lunacy.

once again, the worthless scribblers of the press are falling down on the job. they’re reporting merely on what Trump says, without context or skepticism.

we need reporters, not stenographers. the media has to be holding Donny accountable, and pointing out what Trump isn’t saying. someone needs to stick a microphone right in Trump’s big dumb pumpkin face and say “if national abortion ban legislation lands on your desk, will you sign it?”

Chris Matthews, the person who asked, “do you believe in punishment for abortion, yes or no, as a principle,” is gone.

will no one step up to take his place?

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