Mika Brzezinski and Donald Trump's Penchant for Blood Feuds
American pop culture has worked to normalize women’s bleeding. The American president has missed that memo.
In battle, blood is weakness. Blood is loss. Blood is a visual symbol that, while one may have fought valiantly, one was also—at least for a moment—bested by another. On the battlefield, the one who bleeds is the Loser (Sad!); the one who does not is the Winner.
Donald Trump, it’s often said, sees the world—and human life in general—as a roiling battlefield, and the people within it, consequently, as a collection of Victors and Vanquished who can be easily sorted co-host, Mika Brzezinski. They were tweets mocking weakness. They were tweets mocking vanity. They were tweets about blood.
