Donald Trump to Get a Pro-Life Award--A Quintessentially Gross Washington D.C. Story
It’s not the president’s fault that the moralists love him. It’s the bubble of self-rationalization in which we all live.
ERIN GLORIA RYAN
05.22.18 10:42 AM ET
On Tuesday night, President Donald Trump will deliver the keynote address at the pro-life Susan B. Anthony List’s Campaign for Life Gala. His adviser Kellyanne Conway will receive the organization’s Distinguished Leader award.
Giving pro-life awards to these two individuals recalls a familiar irony in American politics. The ends justify the means, even if the means had to grab a few pussies or pay off a few porn stars to get there.
The irony of Donald Trump’s receipt of this award is fairly obvious.
The Susan B. Anthony List is an organization that promotes a specific sort of morals. It describes itself as “a family of organizations, an arsenal designed not to hurt but to heal; not to shame but to shield.” Their gala celebrates “defending women from abortion.”
Donald Trump has not lived a moral or healing life. At latest count, he’s fathered five children with three different women. Shortly after his newest wife had given birth to his final child a little over a decade ago, Trump had an extremely horny year wherein he (allegedly) had affairs with at least two women (that we know of), one a Playboy model, the other, a pornographic-film actress. We know about these women because his lawyer organized hush-money payments to both in the leadup to the 2016 election. By his own account, Trump spent decades literally fucking his way through desperate New York climber society. Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen arranged a $1.6 million abortion for the mistress of a prominent Republican fundraiser. (Some have pointed out that there’s plenty of reason to believe that the so-called Broidy payment was actually cover for a pregnant Trump mistress’ abortion, since it was shared so many qualities with other payments Cohen made on behalf of Trump.)
President Trump has a checkered history with consent. Nineteen women have accused the president of unwanted sexual advances or other misconduct.
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