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— Karl Marx

Downplaying Domestic Violence

Sep 15, 2025

At an event at the “Museum of the Bible” on Monday, Trump decided he hadn’t been misogynist enough lately. Speaking on domestic abuse, the President stated: “If a man has a little fight with the wife, they say this was a crime.”

Domestic violence is a public health and safety crisis in this country and has been for decades. “A little fight with the wife” sometimes becomes a murder: on average, three women are killed every day by a husband or boyfriend.

It shouldn’t surprise anyone that Trump would make such frivolous comments about a serious issue. As disgusting as he is, this is an issue which has been a problem for longer than the Trump administration and has never been seriously addressed.