Note use of vulgarity for p—-, f— and b—-.

A man who says, “I better use some Tic Tacs just in case I start kissing her. You know I’m automatically attracted to beautiful- I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab them by the p—-. You can do anything,” should be in prison for sexual assault, not near the Oval Office. Yet, he is. Donald Trump is in the final running for the 2016 Presidential Election as the Republican Party candidate.

On Friday, Oct. 7, a video was released in which a vulgar conversation (defended as locker room banter) between Trump and Billy Bush takes place in 2005 on a bus on the way to the set of “Days of Our Lives.” Trump can be heard making obscene comments about women and recalling a previous encounter in which he tried, but failed, to have sex with a married woman.

“I moved on her and I failed. I’ll admit it. I did try and f— her. She was married.” He continues with, “I moved on her like a b—-, but I couldn’t get there, and she was married. Then all of a sudden I see her, and she’s now got the big phony tits and everything.”
Trump has been in the hot seat for degrading and sexist comments towards women before, but now he has passed the premise of sexual assault. In a short video he released, Trump says the publicizing of the recorded conversation is “nothing more than a distraction from the important issues we’re facing today.” I would love to hear the explanation as to how sexual assault is not an increasingly growing issue facing our country now.

Beyond his undeniably tolerant views on sexual assault, he only heightens his public degradation of women. He believes our beauty is for his entertainment and luxury. Our importance lies within how short our dresses are, how exposed our cleavage is and how long our legs are.
Meanwhile enrollment of women, primary targets of sexual assault, in the U.S. Armed Forces climbs to 15.3 percent, according to labs.time.com. Trump condones and defends military sexual assault under the premise that boys will be boys.

“What did these geniuses expect when they put men and women together?” Obviously Trump personally relates to sexual assault perpetrators, because as he sees it, he can do anything he wants to women.

It is clear the negative media attention surfacing does not plague him. In his own words, “It doesn’t really matter… As long as you’ve got a young and beautiful piece of ass.” Right, because again, women are essentially his accessories and entertainment.
Trump being a man so infatuated by breasts took me by surprise when he deemed an employee breastfeeding “disgusting”. How could I forget that our breasts are simply focal points for men’s eyes, not biologically vital to procreation. My bad. Women are eye candy to Trump, nothing more than aesthetically pleasing and sexually available at his disposal.

This recently released video was ultimately icing on the cake. Trump, through the years, has labeled women left and right. He called a Latina Miss Universe “Miss Housekeeping” and said a female reporter Megyn Kelly had “blood coming out of her eyes… blood coming out of her wherever.”
Political ideas aside, Trump’s viewpoint on women alone is unpresidential.

To him, we are “dogs”, “fat pigs” and “disgusting animals” who will allow him to do anything to us after he grabs us “by the p—-” with his Tic Tac breath.

Imagine a man saying that to your mother. Imagine a man saying that to your sister. Imagine a man saying that to your daughter.
Imagine a man saying that to you.
Trump has racked up hundreds of sexist and degrading comments regarding women, but now he has entered the realm of sexual assault. He is violating the law, but he is still in the running because sexual assault is swept under the rug, especially by men with power.

After the passing of sexual harassment laws in the 80s, anyone would be fired from their workplace after comments like Trump’s. Yet a sexual predator is still running for president. Many of his supporters are unphased by the vile words spewed from his mouth, which is concerning in itself.
How will we end rape culture if the leader of our country promotes it?
We cannot let that happen.