Feminist icon Gloria Steinem mocks the Trump campaign for promoting pollster Kellyanne Conway to campaign manager, and says she cannot understand why Conway would accept the post.
“It’s like seeing an anti-Semitic candidate being managed by a Jewish person. It’s not heartening at all. I can’t imagine why she’s doing it,” Steinem tells Yahoo News.
Gloria Steinem in 2011 (Wikimedia Commons, Ms. Foundation for Women, CC BY 2.0)
The writer also tears into Trump himself, calling him “a bully,” and arguing that “he’s not a successful businessman.”
She continues: “He inherited his money. He calls Hillary cowardly and I think to myself, ‘Have you ever given birth?’
“It is unprecedented that we have had someone with so little experience, so little accuracy, so much bombast, such a bully.”
Help us report truthfully on social media
As a multimedia journalist, my job is to take the quality, fact-based journalism produced by The Times of Israel newsroom and make it accessible across every platform — from Instagram posts to podcasts to short-form videos.
This is how many, especially young people, consume news these days. But misinformation is rampant on social media. Our team at ToI produces accurate, responsible short-form reporting on Israel and the Jewish world.
If you believe in the importance of factual social media journalism, please consider joining our reader support group, The Times of Israel Community. Your financial support is essential to sustain responsible multimedia reporting.
We’re really pleased that you’ve read X Times of Israel articles in the past month.
That’s why we started the Times of Israel - to provide discerning readers like you with must-read coverage of Israel and the Jewish world.
So now we have a request. Unlike other news outlets, we haven’t put up a paywall. But as the journalism we do is costly, we invite readers for whom The Times of Israel has become important to help support our work by joining The Times of Israel Community.
For as little as $6 a month you can help support our quality journalism while enjoying The Times of Israel AD-FREE, as well as accessing exclusive content available only to Times of Israel Community members.
Thank you, David Horovitz, Founding Editor of The Times of Israel