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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,986 posts)
Mon Dec 5, 2016, 09:00 PM Dec 2016

Madonna on Donald Trump's Election Win: 'We're F--ked'

Madonna has a message for America after Donald Trump's presidential win. "We're fucked," she told actress Elizabeth Banks in a revealing Billboard interview. 

"[The election] felt like someone died," Madonna says. "[It] felt like a combination of the heartbreak and betrayal you feel when someone you love more than anything leaves you, and also a death. I feel that way every morning; I wake up and say, 'Oh, wait, Donald Trump is still the president,' and it wasn’t a bad dream that I had." 

The pop icon also blamed Trump's victory – and Hillary Clinton's loss – on women voters, touting the theory that "women hate women." "It feels like women betrayed us," she said. "The percentage of women who voted for Trump was insanely high … Women's nature is not to support other women. It's really sad. Men protect each other, and women protect their men and children. Women turn inward and men are more external.

"A lot of it has do with jealousy and some sort of tribal inability to accept that one of their kind could lead a nation," she continued. "Other people just didn't bother to vote because they didn't like either candidate, or they didn't think Trump had a chance in the world. They took their hands off the wheel and then the car crashed."

Madonna, Billboard's Woman of the Year, said she met Trump "years ago" for a Versace campaign at the president-elect's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida – and she found him charming, if unfitting for the presidency.

"He's a very friendly guy, ­charismatic in that ­boastful, macho, alpha-male way," she said. "I found his political incorrectness amusing. Of course, I didn't know he was going to be running for ­president 20 years later. People like that exist in the world, I'm OK with it. They just can’t be heads of state. I just can't put him and Barack Obama in the same ­sentence, same room, same job description."

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/madonna-on-donald-trumps-election-win-were-f--ked-w453873

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Madonna on Donald Trump's Election Win: 'We're F--ked' (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 2016 OP
"I just can't put him and Barack Obama in the same sentence, same room, same job description." babylonsister Dec 2016 #1
Same planet. pressbox69 Dec 2016 #7
Thanks for posting this. Terrific stuff! calimary Dec 2016 #2
"I feel that way every morning; I wake up and say, 'Oh, wait, Donald Trump is still the president" LiberalLovinLug Dec 2016 #3
Yes. SammyWinstonJack Dec 2016 #4
Me too, Madonna.. Cha Dec 2016 #5
It sucks if your a multi millionaire elmac Dec 2016 #6
This is the part of the movie pressbox69 Dec 2016 #8
would put things in a different light, huh. triron Dec 2016 #11
Madonna is prescient here bucolic_frolic Dec 2016 #9
I have to keep that quote: blueseas Dec 2016 #10
Wow. Never saw that coming. She describes my feelings exactly and agree with her about how women politicaljunkie41910 Dec 2016 #12
Amusing? Guessing he didn't grab her... oh, and BTW, quit perpetuating that stupid sexist JudyM Dec 2016 #13

LiberalLovinLug

(14,173 posts)
3. "I feel that way every morning; I wake up and say, 'Oh, wait, Donald Trump is still the president"
Mon Dec 5, 2016, 09:38 PM
Dec 2016

I feel this way too. It sucks. When you first wake up, its a new day and the world is your oyster as you rub the sleep from your eyes ....Then suddenly reality hits you....this is not a nightmare, President Trump, every day, all day for at least 4 fucking years. And all the ugliness he will encourage in all the smarmy bully boys. And add to that the Republican majority that were swept in on his populist coattails, the SCOTUS gone for maybe decades now from a liberal majority....when it was so close.

bucolic_frolic

(43,161 posts)
9. Madonna is prescient here
Mon Dec 5, 2016, 11:41 PM
Dec 2016

(some) women do hate women. They are competitive cats. They
hate to see another woman get ahead of them. I remember the
response to Geraldine Ferraro ---- "Who does she think she is?"

blueseas

(11,575 posts)
10. I have to keep that quote:
Mon Dec 5, 2016, 11:45 PM
Dec 2016

"I just can't put him and Barack Obama in the same ­sentence, same room, same job description."

I know I am not the only one.

politicaljunkie41910

(3,335 posts)
12. Wow. Never saw that coming. She describes my feelings exactly and agree with her about how women
Tue Dec 6, 2016, 10:36 AM
Dec 2016

treat other women also. Hopefully we can learn something from all this because it can't continue.

Democrats fall in love; Republicans fall in line.

JudyM

(29,248 posts)
13. Amusing? Guessing he didn't grab her... oh, and BTW, quit perpetuating that stupid sexist
Tue Dec 6, 2016, 11:25 AM
Dec 2016

concept that women don't support each other. ReThuglicans, male and female, may be sexist and not support women, but progressive women absolutely support each other.

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