Ex-Aide Torches Trump’s “Creepy” New Message to Women

Donald Trump’s pledge to be women’s “protector” is not sitting so well with, well, women. That includes his own former White House employees.

During an appearance Tuesday night on CNN, former Trump White House aide Alyssa Farrah Griffin was asked if she thought there was anything odd about Trump’s rant about women from his campaign event in Indiana, Pennsylvania, the night before.

“I started laughing and thinking it was creepy, but then thinking more about it, it’s very infantilizing,” Griffin said.

“Talking about women as though we’re weak, we’re meek, we need a protector, we need a defender, and we just sit around thinking about abortions all day,” Griffin continued. “It just underscores a fundamental lack of understanding for why a demographic that represents half of the country is one that he is struggling so profoundly with.

“I think Donald Trump, if he loses this election, is going to look back and think that one of the worst decisions he made was not having a female on the ticket, who actually knows how to speak to living, breathing, normal women about issues that matter to them,” Griffin said.

Griffin added that in addition to reproductive rights, economics and national security were also womens’ issues. “The way he is talking about them is not the way to sway voters in the middle,” Griffin said.

A recent NBC News poll found that Kamala Harris was leading Trump among women voters by 21 points.

Trump’s not the only one struggling to connect with women voters. Last week, Bernie Moreno, a Trump-endorsed candidate for Senate from Ohio, told the audience at a town hall that he thought it was “crazy” that women only cared about abortion.

Donald Trump is angry at late-night talk show host Stephen Colbert after watching a PBS interview with him Tuesday night.

Trump took to Truth Social late at night to vent about Colbert, who seems to have gotten under the former president’s skin after saying that Trump would not be returning to The Late Show With Stephen Colbert as a guest.

“I briefly watched an interview of Stephen Colbert on highly government subsidized PBS, and found it fascinating for only one reason—Why would they be wasting time and the public’s money on this complete and total loser?” Trump posted Tuesday. “He is not funny, which he gets paid far too much to be, he is not wise, he is VERY BORING, and his show is dying from a complete lack of viewers—Gutfeld, on cable, is killing him

“CBS should terminate his contract and pick almost anyone, right off the street, who would do better, and for FAR LESS MONEY—Or I could recommend someone, much more talented, and smarter, who would do it for FREE! The good news for Stephen is that the two DOPES on NBC & ABC are not much better than him!” Trump added.

Trump’s post was very over-the-top compared to what Colbert actually said about Trump in a Monday interview with PBS Newshour’s Amna Nawaz.

“I have had him before, and he was kind of boring. So, no,” Colbert said in response to a question about if Trump would appear again on the CBS show. Colbert was on PBS with his wife, Evie, to talk about their new cookbook, Does This Taste Funny?

This isn’t the first time that Trump has attacked a media network or journalist over their less than flattering coverage of him. It’s also the second night in a row that Trump has complained about late-night TV hosts. On Monday, he ranted against Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon, and called for the return of Johnny Carson to The Tonight Show. It’s unclear whether Trump was just reminiscing about the legendary TV host, who passed away in 2005, or if he thought Carson was still alive and could actually return.

After all, Trump has been showing signs of cognitive decline for quite a while and has mistakenly referred to famous dead people as alive, most famously abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Of course, the former president and convicted felon has also been known to lash out at celebrities who slight him, like Taylor Swift, bothering even his ardent supporters.

After another rambling speech in Georgia on Tuesday, Donald Trump took to Truth Social to pat himself on the back.

Except, he appeared to forget where he just had been.

“A great day in Louisiana!” Trump posted around midnight, following his rally in Savannah, Georgia.

He then tried to correct his mistake, tweeting about “internal polling in Louisiana” that showed him “winning the state by the largest margin.” (Sure, let’s see those polls!)

Later in the night—or morning—he finally sent out a shoutout to the correct state, Georgia, covering his tracks.

This wasn’t Trump’s only geography blunder in the past 24 hours.

During his speech on Tuesday, Trump’s brain also short-circuited when he tried to talk about the 2017 violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.

“She didn’t say anything except lies, like bloodbath, like Charlottestown,” Trump said, only a minute after trying to conjure a thought about manufacturing in Georgia.

Trump didn’t bother to correct his mistake, and the crowd clapped anyway.

Ohio’s Republican Senate nominee Bernie Moreno thinks it’s “crazy” that female voters only care about abortion.

Moreno was caught speaking candidly about some of his female constituents during a town hall in Warren County Friday, in footage obtained by NBC4 WMCH.

“You know the left has a lot of single-issue voters,” Moreno said. “Sadly, by the way, there’s a lot of suburban women, a lot of suburban women that are like, ‘Listen, abortion’s it! If I can’t have an abortion in this country whenever I want, I will vote for anybody else!’

“It’s a little crazy, by the way, but, especially for women that are past 50. I’m thinking to myself, ‘I don’t think that’s an issue for you,’” Moreno continued.

Moreno remarked that this kind of statement might “get him in trouble”—and it has.

Former Republican presidential primary candidate Nikki Haley didn’t mince words about Moreno in a post on X Tuesday morning. “Are you trying to lose the election? Asking for a friend,” she wrote.

Ohio’s current Senator Sherrod Brown also posted about Moreno’s off-color comment. “Bernie Moreno thinks he knows better than the 57% of Ohioans who made themselves clear on this issue,” Brown wrote.

In another post, Brown wrote, “Bernie Moreno thinks it’s ‘crazy’ that women want to make their own healthcare decisions.” Sometimes the campaign ads just write themselves.

A spokesperson for Moreno clarified that the Republican wasn’t making a misogynistic claim but, rather, a misogynistic joke.

“Bernie was clearly making a tongue-in-cheek joke about how Sherrod Brown and members of the left-wing media like to pretend that the only issue that matters to women voters is abortion,” Reagan McCarthy wrote in a statement to WMCH.

“Bernie’s view is that women voters care just as much about the economy, rising prices, crime and our open southern border as male voters do, and it’s disgusting that Democrats and their friends in the left-wing media constantly treat all women as if they’re automatically single issue voters on abortion who don’t have other concerns that they vote on,” McCarthy added.

By his own spokesperson’s definition, Moreno is pretty disgusting.

A former aide in Donald Trump’s presidential administration and a senior adviser to Project 2025 is in trouble for sending creepy internet messages to teenagers.

John McEntee, who also co-founded the conservative dating app The Right Stuff, sent messages to multiple young women offering in some cases to give them free trips to Los Angeles and making sexual advances, Wired reports. The app’s sole investor is right-wing billionaire Peter Thiel, and it has been criticized for its mostly male user base.

One of the women, Grace Carter, said McEntee reached out to her through Instagram in October last year when she was an 18-year-old freshman at North Carolina State University. McEntee used the business account of The Right Stuff to message Carter, asking if she wanted free merchandise.

Initially, Carter was interested in a free hoodie but didn’t know much about the app, and didn’t know she was corresponding with McEntee. He introduced himself as John and gave Carter a southern California phone number to message him at, which a Wired reporter recognized as one that McEntee has used in the past. Carter doesn’t know how or why McEntee decided to reach out.

“I actually have no idea how he found me,” Carter told Wired. “Based on the other accounts I follow and things I post, it’s very leftist. So I was surprised when he found me.”

Carter didn’t use McEntee’s number, although she accepted his offer of a free hoodie. Despite the fact that she rarely answered his messages, he offered to fly her and one of her friends to Los Angeles. She responded in a sort of “trolling” way to see if he’d actually follow through on the free trip, but the conversation fizzled out when Carter decided not to visit him.

Later, McEntee’s views on reproductive rights would provoke Carter’s ire. After the September 10 presidential debate between Trump and Kamala Harris, McEntee posted a video on TikTok asking, “Can someone track down the women Kamala Harris says are bleeding out in parking lots because Roe v. Wade was overturned? Don’t hold your breath.”

Carter was incensed, and posted her own video to TikTok sharing her interactions with McEntee. Soon she began receiving messages from other women who said they had similar experiences with the conservative operative.

The publication spoke to one of those women, who asked to remain anonymous. Also aged 18, she said that McEntee reached out to her on The Right Stuff’s app before moving to text messages, using the same southern California phone number he sent to Carter. Over text, he sent her clearly identifiable selfies and began mentioning explicit sexual acts that made her uncomfortable, and encouraged her to come to California.

“It was very sexual from day one,” she said. “He kept making comments about my age and how hot it would be to sleep with someone who was my age.”

McEntee had a reputation while working in the White House for hiring young, attractive women, and could very well have been trying to pursue women through the dating app. He joined the Project 2025 team as a senior adviser in May 2023, raising the question of whether his apparent liberalism on sex coexists with the manifesto’s puritanical recommendations. But conservatives have historically been willing to let that slide.