President Donald Trump fired off a sexist trope about women when he rambled on and on about his so-called Big Beautiful Bill during a faith luncheon at the White House earlier in July.
During Trump’s speech at the White House Faith Office luncheon with business leaders, he went on a tangent about the giant bill he’d signed into law, which favors the wealthy and is expected to cause millions of people to lose their health insurance.
The president complained about the Republicans who’d initially pushed back on the legislation and claimed the bill would “perhaps” prevent an economic depression that, he bizarrely reasoned, wouldn’t be good for “unattractive” men married to women.
“You people, so rich, so beautiful, so nice to look at, will be totally busted,” he said. “And let’s see how long your wife stays with you ... she’ll stay with you for about three weeks and she’ll say, ‘Darling, I can’t take it anymore. I can’t take it anymore, darling, I’m leaving you.’”
“I said to one guy — he’s a very, very unattractive man — but he’s smart and he’s rich, and I said, ‘You better hope we get this thing passed because your wife will be gone within about two minutes,’” Trump continued. “He said, ‘You’re right.’” The crowd erupted in laughter.
