Sandra Bernhard Slams White Female Trump Supporters

Originally published on Apr 4, 2018
Sandra Bernhard Slams White Female Trump Supporters. On March 28 Sandra Bernhard slammed white female Trump supporters in an interview with MSNBC.Show more

“Can’t understand it. Don’t know where it comes from... It’s being either under the thumb of your husband, or, in the election, it was being so offended by Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton’s legacy that you turned on her. Or feeling inadequate, feeling like, how can somebody be so educated? How can somebody who brought themselves up from their experience and gone to the top? Educated herself, fought for rights, civil rights, and equality. And I think that is threatening to a lot of women.”

“A lot of women have compromised, given in … ya know, gotten married, raised their kids and not had the luxury of being able to think for themselves and when you sacrifice that in your life, when you say, 'Well, I think I’m just going to lean on somebody else financially.’ That means you you’ve got to get up every day and go work. I’m not saying none of these women work — of course they do. A lot of women have compromised, given in, raised their kids and not had the luxury of being able to think for themselves and when you sacrifice that in your life and say, 'I don't think I'm going to lean on somebody else financially,' that means you've got to get up every day and go work. I am not saying that none of these women work. Of course they do. But you also, there's just those little gradations of how you look at other women and the sort of feeling you have of inadequacy."

Sandra Bernhard (born June 6, 1955) is an American model, actress, comedian, singer and author. Bernhard first gained attention in the late–1970s with her stand-up comedy in which she often bitterly critiques celebrity culture and political figures. Bernhard is best known as portraying Nancy Barlett Thomas on the ABC sitcom Roseanne beginning in the fourth season (1991) until the show ended in 1997.