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Donald Trump doesn’t have a clue about Susan B. Anthony or Frederick Douglass. | Fred Klonsky

Donald Trump doesn’t have a clue about Susan B. Anthony or Frederick Douglass. | Fred Klonsky:

Donald Trump doesn’t have a clue about Susan B. Anthony or Frederick Douglass.

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Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony in Rochester,  New York.
Donald Trump made a reference to Susan B. Anthony at a White House thing, ending Women’s History Month.
Some in the press pointed out that there are only 4 women cabinet members in the Trump White House. That’s not the problem. The problem is Trump despises women and he and his Party are enacting stuff that will hurt women, particularly poor women and women of color.
“Have you heard of Susan B. Anthony?” he asked a White House gathering of women.
What a jerk.
Did one of his people slip him a card with Susan B. Anthony’s name to him just before his appearance? Maybe he thinks she is still alive, like he thought Frederick Douglass is still alive?
Does he know that the radical feminist Anthony and Frederick Douglass were close friends?
Does he know that Anthony was an outspoken abolitionist?
That Susan B. Anthony collaborated with Harriet Tubman on the Underground Donald Trump doesn’t have a clue about Susan B. Anthony or Frederick Douglass. | Fred Klonsky: