Today isn’t the best day for Donald Trump to come out in favor of abusing women. The Jeffrey Epstein birthday book has been released in full, containing not only Trump’s “wonderful secret” message (apparently written across on an underage girl’s torso), but also a bizarre account of Epstein selling Trump a used-up girl for $22,500.
But, as something of a controversy amuse-bouche before today’s main event, Trump spent last night arguing that domestic violence shouldn’t count as a crime. He made the argument while trying to justify his increasingly ridiculous assertions that his military incursions into Democratic controlled cities are about fighting crime rather than just hunting down immigrants.
In his speech, he claimed he’d reduced crime to “virtually nothing”. And why isn’t it “actually nothing?”:
Trump: "Things that take place in the home they call crime….If a man has a little fight with the wife, they say this is a crime." pic.twitter.com/KxCFnZqqRd
— The Bulwark (@BulwarkOnline) September 8, 2025
“Much lesser things, things that take place in the home they call crime, you know. They’ll do anything they can to find something. If a man has a little fight with the wife, they say this was a crime see, so now I can’t claim 100%.”
No Donald, they don’t “say” that a man beating the hell out of his wife behind closed doors is a crime. It is a crime.
New depths of grossness
Ordinarily, I’d say that it’s telling that Trump so casually dismisses violence against women as something that’s not really a crime and no big deal. But it’s not telling, because at this point it’s obvious to anyone with eyes, ears, and a handful of brain cells to rub against one another that Trump sees women primarily as sex objects and unworthy of respect.
I mean, soon after he said this, we learned that Jeffrey Epstein had not only apparently sold a “fully depreciated” (i.e. used-up) girl to Trump for $22,500, but that the situation was so inherently amusing and that it warranted being recounted in his 50th birthday book!
All that said, the motto that “there’s always more and it’s always worse” is holding fast. Just when we think Trump can’t go any lower, he somehow manages to plumb new depths, going from scraping the bottom of the barrel to blasting through it into the ground and burrowing frantically towards the Earth’s core.
But hey, if Trump really doesn’t think abusing women is a crime then he should put his money where his mouth is and make domestic abuse legal. It’d be at minimum interesting to see how many primped MAGA wives suddenly realize they may have backed the wrong horse.
