After Donald Trump was accused of fat-shaming former Miss Universe winner, Alicia Machado, Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill decided to give the Republican nominee a taste of his own medicine.
On Wednesday, the Senator from Missouri tweeted:
The D women Senators have talked & we’re concerned about Donald’s weight. Campaign stress? We think a public daily weigh-in is called for.
— Claire McCaskill (@clairecmc) September 28, 2016
While Trump’s characterization of Machado in 1997 were inappropriate and definitely unbecoming of a presidential candidate, the Democrats aren’t living up to Michelle Obama’s “when they go low, we go high” mantra very well.
Those words uttered by the First Lady at the Democratic National Convention in July helped unite the Democrats after months of in-party fighting over who would represent the party come November: Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders. They became a rallying cry that united the Democrats (for the most part) against Trump, his supporters, and surrogates.
But after the first presidential debate between Clinton and Trump, the narrative surrounding the Republican nominee has been how he fat-shamed former Miss Universe winner, Alicia Machado, after she had reportedly gained 42 pounds.
Clinton mentioned Trump’s attack of Machado at the tail-end of Monday night’s debate, saying, “One of the worst things he said was about a woman in a beauty contest. He loves beauty contests, supporting them and hanging around them. And he called this woman ‘Miss Piggy.’ Then he called her ‘Miss Housekeeping,’ because she was Latina. Donald, she has a name.”
While it’s certainly fair game to bring up what a candidate has said in the past, Democrats are going a step further to humiliate the Republican nominee.
What are they going to body-shame him for next: his hair, his hands, or his skin?
