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 .