Rapper Cardi B criticized former President Trump for his “like it or not” comments he made earlier this week about protecting women’s health.
“Trump said he was going to protect women whether they wanted to or not,” she said while campaigning alongside Vice President Harris in Milwaukee on Friday evening. “If his definition of protection is not freedom of choice, and if his definition of protection is ensuring that my daughter has fewer rights than her mother, then I don’t want that!”
Cardi B cited Harris’ passion, compassion and empathy as reasons she chose to support the Democratic candidate. Her remarks received loud cheers from the crowd.
The comments come just days after President Trump told supporters that his aides had advised him not to portray himself as a “protector” of women. “Well, I’m going to do that, whether women like it or not. I’m going to protect.” them.”
The vice president also criticized President Trump’s remarks, saying they were “very insulting to women.”
“I think it’s very insulting to women in that it doesn’t understand their agency, their authority, their rights, their ability to make decisions about their lives, including their own bodies,” Harris told reporters earlier this week. He said. And this is the latest in a series of revelations about how the former president thinks about women and their institutions.”
The “Bodak Yellow” and “Up” singer is known for weighing in on politics, often with candid analysis, but earlier this year she declined to endorse President Biden in his second White House bid. Cardi B cited spending wars and “class disappointment” as her reasoning.
“I feel like people have been betrayed,” the rapper told Rolling Stone in May.
She acknowledged at Friday’s rally that she had no plans to vote in the 2024 primary, but Harris changed her mind after entering the race in July and then Biden withdrew.
“I wasn’t going to vote this year. I wasn’t,” she said. “But when Kamala Harris joined the race, my mind completely changed.
“I didn’t trust any candidate until she joined the race and said what I wanted to hear and what I wanted to see in this country next,” Cardi B said, adding, “I believe every word that comes out.” From her (Harris) mouth.”
