Big Baby throws a tantrum. Again.
Jun. 8th, 2026 08:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
luzribeiroDonald Trump loves to say women are "too emotional" to be president, but the second a female journalist calmly challenges him on his election lies, he turns bright red, rips off his mic, and storms out of the room. Like a toddler denied a toy, he threw a tantrum and crashed out of an NBC interview rather than answer a basic question about his own claims.
Joyce Carol Oates nailed it: this is the face of a man who is never challenged, whose worldview is never questioned, who "literally never hears a syllable of opposition unless a journalist, usually a woman, questions him, and then he is astonished and infuriated". That's exactly what we just watched with Kristen Welker: a professional woman doing her job, and a sitting president so unused to accountability that he melted down on national TV when confronted with reality.
So let's be very clear: the person calling women "too emotional" to lead is the same man who cannot sit through a single tough interview without lashing out, crying "crooked media" and bolting for the exit. This isn't strength. It isn't leadership. It's entitlement, misogyny, and cowardice dressed up as bravado, and the only reason he gets away with it is because too many people have been trained never to tell him "no".
If Trump thinks women are too "emotional" to be president, then let's have that conversation honestly: because the only person who just lost control on national television, in front of the whole country, wasn't the woman in the room.
Joyce Carol Oates nailed it: this is the face of a man who is never challenged, whose worldview is never questioned, who "literally never hears a syllable of opposition unless a journalist, usually a woman, questions him, and then he is astonished and infuriated". That's exactly what we just watched with Kristen Welker: a professional woman doing her job, and a sitting president so unused to accountability that he melted down on national TV when confronted with reality.
So let's be very clear: the person calling women "too emotional" to lead is the same man who cannot sit through a single tough interview without lashing out, crying "crooked media" and bolting for the exit. This isn't strength. It isn't leadership. It's entitlement, misogyny, and cowardice dressed up as bravado, and the only reason he gets away with it is because too many people have been trained never to tell him "no".
If Trump thinks women are too "emotional" to be president, then let's have that conversation honestly: because the only person who just lost control on national television, in front of the whole country, wasn't the woman in the room.
