Why is the president of the United States cyberbullying a 16-year-old girl?

[Judi Lynn]

Nancy Jo Sales
What it says to girls is: no matter what you do, no matter how much you achieve, powerful men will try to cut you down

Sat 14 Dec 2019 06.15 EST Last modified on Sat 14 Dec 2019 06.17 EST

The morning after election day 2016, I got a call from a girls’ school in New York where I was scheduled to speak. “We have to reschedule,” said a representative from the school. “The girls are too upset.”

Girls across the country were upset when Trump was elected, but not simply on partisan grounds. They were upset because Donald Trump was a bully, a cyberbully, and he bullied girls and young women like them – women like the former Miss Universe Alicia Machado, who revealed that, when she was 19, he called her “Miss Piggy,” a dig at her weight.

In a New York Times poll in the run-up to the election, nearly half of girls aged 14 to 17 said that Trump’s comments about women affected the way they think about their bodies. Only 15% of girls said they would vote for him if they could.

And now Trump has a new target for his bullying: Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old environmental activist. Thunberg seems to be really making Trump upset, without meaning to. She doesn’t fit into any of his ideas of how girls are supposed to act. She isn’t trying to be a contestant in one of his beauty pageants. She’s too busy trying to get world leaders like him to do something about the climate crisis. She’s too occupied by giving speeches at places like the UN – where Trump was laughed at, when he gave a speech in 2018, and Thunberg was met with respect, despite slamming the entire body for “misleading” the public with inadequate emission-reduction pledges.

More:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/14/trump-president-greta-thunberg-bullying

[catrose]

1. His stomping around on stage after Hillary sent me that message.

[DanieRains]

2. Because Trump Is Human Feces

That was an easy answer.

[handmade34]

3. the question is...

why is a 73yo man who is cyberbullying a 16-year-old girl, called the President of the United States??

[Kath2]

4. She is so far and above trump's level of understanding.

It is unbelievable. For him to mock her shows what a wretched piece of garbage he is.

[Blue Owl]

5. Mental toddlers gonna toddle

[Haggis for Breakfast]

6. and why is everyone around him - including the full-frontal first "lady" - trying

to legitimize it ? WH press jackal, Stephanie Grisham, said it was ok to troll Greta because she is an "activist."

I remember a few years ago, Anderson Cooper said to Jeffrey Lord "trump could take a dump on the desk and you'd defend it."

[Canoe52]

7. This may turn the next generation against anything the republican party ever offers

[raccoon]

8. A consummation devoutly to be wished. Nt