Days after Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren abandoned her campaign for the highest office in the United States, President Trump rejected claims that sexism was a factor.
Speaking to reporters at the White House after signing an $8 billion coronavirus aid package, Trump slammed Warren’s “lack of talent” and suggested Americans don’t like her as a person.
“I think lack of talent was her problem,” Trump said. “She had a tremendous lack of talent. She was a good debater. She destroyed Mike Bloomberg very quickly like it was nothing, that was easy for her, but people don’t like her. She’s a very mean person and people don’t like her. People don’t want that.”
Contrasting himself with Warren, Trump finished his statement by claiming people like him because he’s not mean.
A day after Warren announced she would shutter her campaign for president, dozens of articles were written opining the state of gendered relationships in the U.S. Outlets such as Vox, the Nation, USA Today, and the New York Times suggested Warren’s abysmal performances in the primary states she participated in were the result of gender-related discrimination.
Trump and Warren have fought bitterly against one another, with the president repeatedly mocking the Massachusetts senator for her claims to Native American ancestry.
Warren announced the end of her presidential campaign on Thursday. Speaking to reporters afterward, she dodged what she called a “trap question” about whether sexism was to blame.
“If you say, ‘Yeah, there was sexism in this race,’ everyone says, ‘Whiner,” Warren said. “And if you say, ‘No, there was no sexism,’ about a bazillion women think, ‘What planet do you live on?'”
