Cardi B hits Trump over 'like it or not' women's health comments
Rapper Cardi B knocked former President Trump for comments he made earlier this week about protecting women's health, whether they "like it or not."
"Trump says he's going to protect women whether they like it or not," she said Friday evening while campaigning with Vice President Harris in Milwaukee. "Well, if his definition of protection is not the freedom of choice, if his definition of protection is making sure our daughters have fewer rights than our mothers, then I don't want it!"
Cardi B listed Harris's passion, compassion and empathy as reasons for why she chose to support the Democratic nominee. Her remarks were met with loud cheers from the crowd.
The remarks come just days after Trump told supporters that his advisers counseled him against describing himself as a "protector" for women, adding "Well, I’m going to do it whether the women like it or not. I’m going to protect them."
The vice president has also slammed Trump's rhetoric, calling his vow "very offensive to women."
"It actually is, I think, very offensive to women in terms of not understanding their agency, their authority, their right and their ability to make decisions about their own lives, including their own bodies,” Harris told reporters earlier this week. “And this is just the latest in a series of reveals by the former president on how he thinks about women and their agency.”
The "Bodak Yellow" and "Up" singer is known for weighing in on politics with oftentimes candid analysis, though she declined to endorse President Biden for a second White House bid earlier this year. Cardi B cited spending wars and "layers and layers of disappointment" as her reasoning.
“I feel like people got betrayed,” the rapper said in an interview with Rolling Stone in May.
She admitted during Friday's rally that she wasn't planning on voting in the 2024 race, but Harris changed her mind after entering the race in July — when Biden withdrew.
"I wasn't going to vote this year — I wasn't," she said. "But Kamala Harris joining the race, she changed my mind completely.
"I did not have faith on any candidates until she joined the race and said the things that I wanted to hear, that I want to see next in this country," Cardi B added, saying that she believes in "every word that comes out of her (Harris's) mouth."