# Has Trump personally acknowledged that the Women's March even happened? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [January 22, 2017, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-trump-personally-acknowledged-that-the-womens-march-even-happened/777814 "2017-01-22T10:48:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2017, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-trump-personally-acknowledged-that-the-womens-march-even-happened/777814/1 "2017-01-22T10:48:35Z")
Skimming my usual news sources, I can’t find the answer to this (so naturally I came here 🙂 ). Has he tweeted about it or issued any kind of statement that indicates that he is aware it happened? I mean, I **know** he’s got to be aware of it-- but has he publicly admitted he knows it happened? Or is he just ignoring it like he does other unpalatable facts? ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2017, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-trump-personally-acknowledged-that-the-womens-march-even-happened/777814/2 "2017-01-22T12:38:27Z")
Found this in the Washington Post **On first day in the White House bubble, no mention of protesters outside** [http://wapo.st/2jLnryI](http://wapo.st/2jLnryI) > [@](#): > > … > But Trump and his press team offered no public reaction to the dramatic outpouring of emotion, most of it in protest of the new administration, from the hundreds of thousands of demonstrators in Washington’s streets and many more across the country. > > “A fantastic day and evening in Washington D.C.,” Trump wrote on Twitter on Saturday morning, referring to his inauguration and the balls that followed on the previous day. “Thank you to @FoxNews and so many other news outlets for the GREAT reviews of the speech!”… I wonder if he’s really going to completely ignore the march and all the protests around the world. These events fairly **cry out** for a wounded, pouty tweet. ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2017, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-trump-personally-acknowledged-that-the-womens-march-even-happened/777814/3 "2017-01-22T13:33:46Z")
I could have sworn he or his spokespeople were crying about relative crowd sizes. But if not, then ignoring it is the best policy. ---
**Author:** ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2017, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-trump-personally-acknowledged-that-the-womens-march-even-happened/777814/4 "2017-01-22T13:37:26Z")
He has now, sort of: [x.com](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/823150055418920960) > [@](#): > > Watched protests yesterday but was under the impression that we just had an election! Why didn’t these people vote? Celebs hurt cause badly. Not entirely sure what the last sentence fragment is supposed to mean. ---
**Author:** ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2017, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-trump-personally-acknowledged-that-the-womens-march-even-happened/777814/5 "2017-01-22T13:38:56Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > I could have sworn he or his spokespeople were crying about relative crowd sizes. But if not, then ignoring it is the best policy. That was inauguration crowds. For this he’s returning to the old “I won in a landslide”-canard. ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2017, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-trump-personally-acknowledged-that-the-womens-march-even-happened/777814/6 "2017-01-22T13:39:56Z")
I speak fluent right-wingese, so I’ll translate: I think he was trying to say, “These women didn’t vote enough, and all those celebrity women are doing as much good now as they did in the runup to the election.” ---
**Author:** ![coremelt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@coremelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coremelt)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2017, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-trump-personally-acknowledged-that-the-womens-march-even-happened/777814/7 "2017-01-22T13:41:01Z")
He’s acknowledged as of 48 mins ago on his @realDonaldTrump twitter. [https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump) “Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump 51m51 minutes ago Watched protests yesterday but was under the impression that we just had an election! Why didn’t these people vote? Celebs hurt cause badly.” Yes we had an election Donnie, and guess what you lost the popular vote by 3 million people, so there’s a lot of pissed off people that are going to protest and keep protesting every single move you do. Deal with it. Also it seems he intends to keep using both @realDonaldTrump and @POTUS, I bet that’s making a lot of intelligence / security people very unhappy. ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2017, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-trump-personally-acknowledged-that-the-womens-march-even-happened/777814/8 "2017-01-22T14:20:21Z")
Vladimir Putin mentioned the Women’s March several times in his address to the American People: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/LNK430YOiT4/maxresdefault.jpg "Vladimir Putin Cold Open - SNL") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNK430YOiT4) ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2017, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-trump-personally-acknowledged-that-the-womens-march-even-happened/777814/9 "2017-01-22T14:33:27Z")
> [@coremelt](#): > > Yes we had an election Donnie, and guess what you lost the popular vote by 3 million people You people keep harping on the popular vote as if it meant something. It doesn’t, and it doesn’t by design. You’re beating a dead horse here. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2017, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-trump-personally-acknowledged-that-the-womens-march-even-happened/777814/10 "2017-01-22T15:06:21Z")
You are right about the design part, our Founding Fuckups were not, for the most part, trying to establish a democratic and egalitarian state. They were men of wealth and privilege with a firm determination to stay that way. But the Revolution opened a door that was never entirely closed, the possibility is there, and our job is realize the Dream. Its taking a lot longer than it should, but only God Almighty can stop it, and I don’t think She’s interested. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2017, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-trump-personally-acknowledged-that-the-womens-march-even-happened/777814/11 "2017-01-22T15:08:26Z")
Of course it means something. It means his popular support isn’t as solidified as he would like to believe. It puts the congress on notice that there are huge number of people unhappy with what Trump campaigned on and promised to do, it gives Republicans justification to oppose him, and it gives democrats strong reason to put up opposition candidates midterm. ---
**Author:** ![coremelt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@coremelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coremelt)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2017, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-trump-personally-acknowledged-that-the-womens-march-even-happened/777814/12 "2017-01-22T15:16:30Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > You people keep harping on the popular vote as if it meant something. It doesn’t, and it doesn’t by design. You’re beating a dead horse here. It’s a perfectly valid thing to quote because it indicates factually that more people oppose Trump’s agenda than support it and they’re justified in using whatever legal and non-violent means they can to do so. Obstruct, delay, protest, filibuster, whatever it takes. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2017, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-trump-personally-acknowledged-that-the-womens-march-even-happened/777814/13 "2017-01-22T15:25:05Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > You people keep harping on the popular vote as if it meant something. It doesn’t, and it doesn’t by design. You’re beating a dead horse here. You people keep harping on people discussing the popular vote as if it meant nothing. It means something, and we talk about it by design. You’re beating a dead horse here. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2017, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-trump-personally-acknowledged-that-the-womens-march-even-happened/777814/14 "2017-01-22T15:31:40Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > You people keep harping on the popular vote as if it meant something. It doesn’t, and it doesn’t by design. You’re beating a dead horse here. [This doesn’t mean anything either](http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/1/20/14332462/photos-crowd-trump-inauguration-vs-obama), I suppose. ---
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2017, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-trump-personally-acknowledged-that-the-womens-march-even-happened/777814/15 "2017-01-22T15:37:27Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > [This doesn’t mean anything either](http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/1/20/14332462/photos-crowd-trump-inauguration-vs-obama), I suppose. It’s a good start, but we have to maintain it. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2017, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-trump-personally-acknowledged-that-the-womens-march-even-happened/777814/16 "2017-01-22T15:42:35Z")
I’m encouraged by the fact that it wasn’t just a National Women’s March across America, but an [International event](http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/21/politics/trump-women-march-on-washington/). ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2017, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-trump-personally-acknowledged-that-the-womens-march-even-happened/777814/17 "2017-01-22T16:00:28Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > You people keep harping on the popular vote as if it meant something. It doesn’t, and it doesn’t by design. You’re beating a dead horse here. The Will of the People, as expressed via voting, matters if you believe that “… Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed”. The object of this exercise is that the Governed wants to put Trump and his followers on notice that they should not to take that consent for granted because this is not the last election they will ever have to win. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2017, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-trump-personally-acknowledged-that-the-womens-march-even-happened/777814/18 "2017-01-22T16:10:27Z")
> [@Merneith](#): > > The Will of the People, as expressed via voting, matters if you believe that “… Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed”. The object of this exercise is that the Governed wants to put Trump and his followers on notice that they should not to take that consent for granted because this is not the last election they will ever have to win. IOW if Trump claims that he has a Mandate, he’s wrong. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2017, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-trump-personally-acknowledged-that-the-womens-march-even-happened/777814/19 "2017-01-22T16:23:03Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > IOW if Trump claims that he has a Mandate, he’s wrong. And we know how much he is bothered by being wrong! ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2017, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-trump-personally-acknowledged-that-the-womens-march-even-happened/777814/20 "2017-01-22T16:26:20Z")
No, but he is _very_ bothered by any suggestion that he’s not popular. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-trump-personally-acknowledged-that-the-womens-march-even-happened/777814.md?page=2)