Comedienne Chelsea Handler, on Monday, December 30, urged white women in the country who support President Donald Trump to "think about what it's like to not be them" as they head into the new year. Handler also accused the president of inflicting damage on minorities.
Handler, who starred in 'Hello, Privilege. It’s Me, Chelsea', a Netflix documentary on white privilege, took to Twitter to address white women. She wrote: "I hope the 53% of white women who voted for Donald Trump in 2016 realize the damage he has caused to people who are not white. I hope in 2020 they can think about what it’s like to not be them."
She also tweeted a link to an article from The Hill, which detailed the results of a Third Way and the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies poll showing that “of the 46 percent of black voters who identify as strong Democrats, 57 percent are more energized to vote in 2020 than they were in 2016.”
The comedienne, a vocal critic of Trump, also penned an essay after Trump's 2016 election victory over the former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, stating that the country has a problem with "women supporting women."
“One of the saddest things about November 8,” she had written, was “the women of America who somehow managed to vote for Donald Trump, specifically the 53% of all white female voters who chose Mr. Trump. " At least "94% of black women voted for Hillary Clinton because unlike white women, black women don’t take their rights, liberties, or justice for granted,” she added.
Her sentiments on white women in American remained unchanged in 2018 as she took to Twitter after discovering the majority of white women supported Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) over former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX).
"59% of white women voted for Ted Cruz. I don’t know what it is going to take for us to be sisters to other women, but we have to do better than this,” she wrote. “We need to vote for the best interests of others, and stop thinking only about ourselves.”