This is Totally Normal Quote of the Day, a feature highlighting a statement from the news that exemplifies just how extremely normal everything has become.
“We’re, like, the party of fertilization because we are for the women.” —Donald Trump, speaking about abortion following a rally in Michigan earlier this month
Over the past week, Trump has been all over the headlines, between Stormy Daniels’ testimony in his hush money trial and the news that Trump’s mysterious, yearslong IRS audit could result in his owing $100 million in back taxes. But the Trump news I can’t stop thinking about is a baffling—and accidentally quite telling—interview the former president gave to a local news station about reproductive rights. It was mostly a bunch of word vomit that got very little attention, but it contained a damning Freudian slip that encapsulates the party’s views on abortion and what rights, if any, should be afforded to women.
Following a rally in Saginaw County, a Fox 2 Detroit anchor asked Trump how abortion would affect the November election. Trump, regurgitating some of his favorite lines of late, claimed that all legal scholars wanted Roe v. Wade overturned—a feat he managed to achieve. Now that abortion is a state issue, he said, “it’s working out” and “people are satisfied with it.” (Trump also seemed not to know that Michigan voters already passed a ballot measure to protect abortion.) This is all a bunch of nonsense, but it’s not the part that’s stuck with me.
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