MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski on Tuesday accused President Trump of suggesting on Twitter that Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., was willing to have sex with him in exchange for a campaign donation.
“Let’s just say it,” she said. “He’s suggesting that Kirsten Gillibrand would have sex with him in order to get campaign contributions. The president actually tweeted that this morning.”
In his morning tweet, Trump called Gillibrand a “lightweight” who used to come “begging” to his office for campaign funds. Trump wasn’t specific, added in parenthesis that she would “do anything for those donations.”
Many immediately saw Trump’s tweet as a veiled way of saying Gillibrand was willing to have sex with him, and many called that a form of sexual harassment.
Trump, however, has used this kind of language before. In 2016, he said Mitt Romney used to beg him for money.
“He was begging for my endorsement. I could have said, ‘Mitt, drop to your knees.’ He would have dropped to his knees,” Trump said.
Still, Brzezinski and others were incensed. Brzezinski called Trump’s comment “derogatory and disgusting.”
“You treat women terribly, and you treat women around you even worse,” she said. “And you treat women like punching bags because it’s fun for you because you are intimidated by women.”
