Why I Stand Against Donald Trump: A Trans Man’s Daily Prompt Response

It Is A Sad Day- Free Collection By Axton N.O. Mitchell Cover image-collage of Donald Trump images upside-down


Daily writing prompt
What public figure do you disagree with the most?

Donold J Trump.

Imagine you are standing in a storm of cruelty. You are clutching not just a rainbow umbrella. It is one stitched with every color and shape of a humanity. You are standing shoulder to shoulder with migrants. You are with trans folks, disabled people, and BIPOC. You are with everyone who was ever told they were “too different” to belong. Only then do you have to watch a vile man rise up. He stands on all your friends’ backs. He purposely pushes them down further into their despair. For people who believe in equal rights his stance is a threat, not just disagreeable.

His MAGA brand is built on fear, division, and cruelty. Explain this, we banned trans people in sports since they are much too tough. Then we turn around and ban them from the armed services because they are too weak? Make it make sense for me if you can, please?

The man caged kids. Does it actually matter that they were migrants? I mean kids are kids! What happened to you caring about the babies so much? He mocks the vulnerable. He mocks the disabled.

He threw paper towels in Puerto Rico. He mimicked a reporter’s voice. These actions should have been more than enough to not reelect him. Not to mention, justice, freedom of speech, and due process are reserved for the straight, rich, white, and cis men. Sometimes their wives benefit as well.

Supporting him is turning your back on your fellow working-class Americans who he wishes to erase. It is excusing harm because you weren’t the one harmed first.

It is comfort at the cost of someone else’s survival. He promised cheaper gas and groceries. The same groups who cried for that during Joe Biden are okay with paying more now. It is as if the economy they were so worried about isn’t collapsing under the weight of Trump’s failures. If equality is the goal, that makes Trump the storm we were built to withstand.
ALL HAIL DADDY TRUMP.


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4 responses to “Why I Stand Against Donald Trump: A Trans Man’s Daily Prompt Response”

  1. Eunuchorn Avatar


    Thank you – great post! I am writing a blog on Judith Butler, and I would like to reference this post – especially the ” I mean explain this we banned trans people in sports because they are much too tough, and then we turn around and ban them from the armed services because they are too weak… I mean make it make sense for me could you, please?” – the contradictions just hurt your head, don’t they?

    1. poeaxtry_ Avatar

      You can reference whatever you’d like. ✨🖤

      1. Eunuchorn Avatar

        Thank you – I do enjoy your blog.

      2. poeaxtry_ Avatar

        I appreciate that

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