“To think that he could talk this way about the basic functioning of a woman’s reproductive system, not just to avoid tough political questions, but to insult Kelly’s intelligence, and effectively all women’s, was infuriating and needed to be called out”, she said.
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It was after the first debate last month that Trump declared that Kelly, a moderator who had questioned him pointedly about some unflattering comments about women, “had blood coming out of her wherever”. As a further blow to Trump’s controversial statements, Levy says she will be donating all proceeds from the menstrual blood Trump portrait to an immigrants’ rights organization. “Blood coming out of her wherever”, he said.
And it’s not like Sarah Levy, the artist behind this portrait of Donald Trump painted with menstrual blood titled “Whatever”, is doing it purely out of self-interest.
The Portland artist used her own blood to paint trumps face, and that famous swooped hair.
Jake Tapper, the debate moderator, asked Trump the question because the billionaire presidential hopeful had told Hewitt he could not recognize key players like the top figures of the Islamic State group, the central al Qaeda leadership, Hezbollah and al Qaeda’s branch in Syria “without a scorecard”.
The bright red luster of the original painting has, according to Levy, faded to brown in the days since she created it.
Donald Trump said there are few people who would’ve understood the “Arab names” conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt threw at him in an interview earlier this month. Trump later implied that Kelly must have been on her period.
She said: “I think that an issue like menstrual shame is related to the overall body shame that many girls and women in our society are raised to feel as a matter of course”.
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“It’s not my job to change someone’s personality”, he said.
