Women Are Trolling Trump With Updates About Their Periods

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Women on Twitter aren’t letting Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump live down his comment about Fox News host Megyn Kelly having “blood coming out of her wherever” during the first GOP debate.

The real estate mogul has refused to apologize to Kelly for the remark. He denied Tuesday morning on CNN’s “New Day” that he was making a reference to Kelly’s menstrual cycle, as some people — including Erick Erickson, who disinvited Trump from his Saturday RedState Gathering — had thought.

“Frankly, I don’t even know how it could be misconstrued unless somebody’s a deviant,” the billionaire told CNN host Chris Cuomo.

Still, despite Trump’s proclamation that he “would be the best for women” if elected President, Twitter users barraged him this week with live updates on their periods (or lack thereof) using the hashtag #periodsarenotaninsult. A website set up by Amber Gordon of Femsplain even offered templates for the period-tracking tweets.

Brands got in on the hashtag, too:

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  1. Why don’t you do a piece about Rand Paul trolling Trump? It would be about another GOP candidate but also fulfill TPM’s mission to only cover things Trump.

  2. Are we getting even close to the end of the 15 mins. on this???

  3. Well Donnie is the show of the moment. I take it as an opportunity for “death by a thousand snarks”

  4. Longer the better; makes rest of GOP field insignificant.

  5. Avatar for wial wial says:

    Missing from this so far at least as far as I’ve seen is exploration of Trump’s usage of “deviant” to dismiss anyone who disagrees with him. If anything that’s even more toxic than his treatment of women. At least he still wants to be around women, however badly he treats them. How would he treat “deviants” as president? History is full of horrors perpetrated by those who consider their own judgment as to which humans are normal and acceptable and which not – to be the law of the land.

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