Marianne Williamson complained privately to the mother of writer Molly Jong-Fast after she mocked the presidential candidate for urging prayers against Hurricane Dorian.
“So Marianne Williamson DMed my mom to complain about me and I have receipts,” Jong-Fast, a contributor for the Bulwark, said Thursday. Williamson, 67, directly messaged Jong-Fast’s mother, the feminist author Erica Jong, “I understand your daughter is young and doesn’t know better but given your own career and the fact that we’ve met, I would have though you’d at least be open to a non-corporate political voice in the mix.”
Jong-Fast responded by taking pictures of the direct messages and posting them to Twitter.
So Marianne Williamson DMed my mom to complain about me and I have receipts. pic.twitter.com/V2iGO2Ny7H
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) September 5, 2019
Why is she not praying away a hurricane like a normal person? pic.twitter.com/HMCdFqi8WE
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) September 5, 2019
The feud between the two began after Williamson tweeted out that prayers could be used to turn away Hurricane Dorian.
Marianne Williamson has deleted this tweet pic.twitter.com/YdLRD7UfoZ
— Yashar Ali ? (@yashar) September 4, 2019
Williamson later deleted the tweet and rewrote the message but later defended her original message on Twitter, claiming the Left had become “overly secularized.”
“I was born and raised in Texas so I’ve seen it. Millions of people today are praying that Dorian turn away from land, and treating those people with mockery or condescension because they believe it could help is part of how the overly secularized Left has lost lots of voters,” she said.
I was born and raised in Texas so I’ve seen it. Millions of people today are praying that Dorian turn away from land, and treating those people with mockery or condescension because they believe it could help is part of how the overly secularized Left has lost lots of voters.
— Marianne Williamson (@marwilliamson) September 4, 2019
Jong-Fast, 41 mocked Williamson’s message of using prayer against hurricanes as “craziness.”
“So Marianne wants us to pray the hurricanes away and trump just wants us to think that hurricane Dorian could hit Alabama and did I leave out any hurricane craziness?” she said Wednesday.
So Marianne wants us to pray the hurricanes away and trump just wants us to think that hurricane Dorian could hit Alabama and did I leave out any hurricane craziness?
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) September 5, 2019
After Williamson messaged her mother, Jong-Fast, who has been critical of the candidate in the past, told the Washington Examiner that there was “not a gray area” when it came to Williamson being unqualified for the presidency.
“If she can’t handle a tweet then she probably shouldn’t be president,” she said. “Because they get a lot worse than tweets when you’re president.”
Williamson has not qualified for the fall debates and is polling with less than 1% support, according to RealClearPolitics.
