Donald Trump participated in a rather disastrous town hall event hosted by ABC last night.
At one point during the live, hour-long debacle, Trump rudely interrupted a woman’s question about preexisting conditions… only to have her tell him to STFU and let her finish.
The question came from Dr. Ellesia Blaque, an assistant professor of African diasporic literature, history, and culture at Kutztown University, who was asking about the preexisting conditions mandate detailed in the Affordable Care Act and why the Trump administration is trying to have the mandate removed by the U.S. Supreme Court.
“And should preexisting conditions, which ObamaCare brought into … fruition be removed–” Blaque asked before Trump cut her off.
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“No!” he interjected.
“Please stop and let me finish my question, sir,” Blaque fired back, before adding, “Should that be removed, within a 36 to 72-hour period, without my medication, I will be dead. And I want to know what it is that you’re going to do to assure that people like me, who work hard, we do everything we’re supposed to do, can stay insured?”
“It’s not my fault that I was born with this disease.”
QUESTION"
"Should pre-existing conditions.."TRUMP interrupts: "NO"
"Please stop and let me finish my question sir."pic.twitter.com/U9JVxLkBUg
— Bill Maxwell ? ByeDon2020 (@Bill_Maxwell_) September 16, 2020
Twitter responded to Trump being told to STFU by a college professor accordingly…
Trump just found you don’t interrupt an older Black woman when she’s speaking pic.twitter.com/T9IiMOGFcK
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) September 16, 2020
Ooo lord this Black woman asking about pre-existing conditions just told Trump to stop talking so she can finish her question.
Trump can’t strike back because these aren’t reporters, they’re voters. *Chef’s Kiss*
— Ahmed Baba (@AhmedBaba_) September 16, 2020
Just FYI:
A BLACK WOMAN did not allow President Donald Trump to interrupt her question at his town hall last night.She cut him off, and told him to let her finish. You’re welcome. ? It was awesome!
— Jeras Ikehorn (@JerasIkehorn) September 16, 2020
"Please stop and let me finish my question sir!" (Trump immediately shuts up.) -things only a Black woman could do. #TrumpTownHall
— Black Esq. ?????? (@blkesquire) September 16, 2020
Sis name is Ellesia Blaque! ?Sis ?got a Bachelor Degree. A Master Degree. Oh, and a PHD. She's a Professor. She took him to class.#TrumpTownHall pic.twitter.com/nVjhMsElf7
— ?Hope (@fugeegirl) September 16, 2020
Trump just got bitch slapped by a black woman professor!!!
— Ilg79 (@idrislg79) September 16, 2020
Did yall see the black woman tell Trump not to interrupt her …and he shut up?
— ????? (@_RaeTheMartian_) September 16, 2020
That black woman really told Trump not to interrupt her I SCREAMED
— Andrew Palmer (@andrewDC_) September 16, 2020
OMG that Ellesia Blaque just Stiff armed Trump in real time on this #AbcTownHall so damn amazing! pic.twitter.com/ijYJJhihiM
— Will (@McNiffed) September 16, 2020
Trump just attempted to interrupt a black woman and she wasn’t having it.
You come for a black woman Trump?? You’ll ?? lose ?? every ?? single ?? time. #Trumptownhall
— Runnergal4life #BidenHarris ? (@BlueWave215) September 16, 2020
A black woman stood up to Trump and refused to be bulldozed and interrupted by him at the ABC town hall. Fox news is calling it an ambush.
America is calling her a BOSS!
— Women SCARE Trump?????? (@Ky_Gill28) September 16, 2020
Professor Ellesia Blaque is my new hero, she should be an inspiration for all. pic.twitter.com/gD0oEpMqQL
— Myndy Ornelas (@NKOTBLOVE) September 16, 2020
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dhmonarch89
it was for undecided voters…she doesn’t sound too undecided… Is ABC giving Joe Biden and hour of free press like this?
Kangol2
There were several Don the Con-leaning voters in the audience last night. You should watch the town hall in its entirety rather than assuming the participants weren’t friendly to Don the Con. Several were longtime Republicans who appeared exasperated at his constant stream of lies, misstatements, obfuscations, and at times nonsense. He’s clearly not well in the head, though many of his fanatical supporters do have the “herd mentality [sic]” he mentioned last night. His performance with a range of regular Americans, not his cultists or FoxNews, was a debacle, and that’s putting it kindly.
And yes, Joe Biden will have his own town hall with undecided voters on Thursday.
Cam
So let’s see. She has a preexisting condition and asked him a question about something related directly to her, and because of that you question whether she should be there.
Funny, NORMAL politicians try to swing voters over to their side. Apparently if somebody isn’t 100% in for Trump Republicans now want to attack them.
Keep doing this. Please, it will be hilarious for the election.
quinnigan
Ummm… I’m trying to figure this out. And I do not like Trump or his personality, but things like this (seem to be all over the place these days) don’t make sense and even back the claims that he is being misrepresented by all kinds of people.
So, she’s taking her time asking a question, and nobody points out that saying, “… pre-existing conditions, which Obamacare brought to fruition…” is a ridiculous comment by itself (at best bad grammar?) In other words, she basically said that Obamacare created pre-existing conditions. What?! I guess people are supposed to know that she meant something more like “Obamacare brought COVERAGE for pre-existing conditions,” but since she’s a college professor after all, she should know better and/or should have at least prepared her comments to make better sense.
However, I’m puzzled over so many on here cackling that he “rudely interrupted” her. Listening to the video, it does sound like she’s finished with the question. And all he did was say, “No.” It seems like she intended it to be a set-up, actually. Pause long enough for him to say one word (and actually, to say that he would NOT do what he’s being accused of planning) so she can “reprimand” him. As if.
I’ve been so skeptical of all the republicans’ accusation of media bias, cheating by democrats (which I’ve been since age 18) and outright lying, because it just all seems too ridiculous. But in the last few days I’m having second thoughts, thanks in part to things like this. I’m not looking at it as “their side vs our side”. It’s bad for ALL of us if lies, misinformation and cheating are allowed to prevail over true democratic processes. Like a paraphrase of the old saying by Martin Niemöller goes, “… Then they came for me and there was no one left…” (to speak for me.)
Beware of being gleeful over absurdities like this, because if this kind of dishonesty is allowed to prevail, it will inevitably be used against you, too.
Mister P
There should be nothing controversial about providing healthcare. He needs to be jailed to shut him TF up.
Liquid Silver
Good for her. I skipped it because I’m far from undecided. The instant my by-mail ballot gets here, it’s getting bubbled in for Biden and knocked back immediately.
And the faster the state gets on that the happier I’ll be. Because seriously, folks, time’s a-wasting. Move it.
Cam
The fact is, the Trump administration is in court right now trying to dissolve the protections for preexisting conditions. There are only two reasons to do this.
1. Insurance CEOs have bribed them because they don’t want to cover those folks.
2. They want people to die.
missvamp
the fact she even had to ask this shows why he has to go. people like me & her will die. i can’t survive without medicare. i’m just like her. i have 5 pre-existing conditions! i applaud her!!
Jay002
The Pastor who asked the question about MAGA was on CNN and he said he voted for the 3rd party candidate in 2016. He said he was still undecided after last night townhall until he heard something that specifically addresses the issues in the African American community.
Doug
I was so hoping that the headline of this story was true and she’d actually said, “STFU!”
MacAdvisor
I am a yellow-dog, market socialist Democrat and think Trump is a ignorant buffoon, but, that said, she paused, sounded like her question had been asked, and Trump a gave a resounding, “no.” He didn’t really interrupt her. She paused, likely to catch her breath. That she knew she had more to say is nice, but nothing in her speech syntax indicated that. If I had been speaking with her, I would have answer when Trump did. Trump is, of course, wrong. Ending protections is precisely what his Administration plans to do.
quinnigan
I was glad to read down to see another called out some of this discussion. I just don’t think it serves us well to pounce on and support obvious set-ups, that’s all. And I’m definitely convinced he intends to remove pre-existing conditions from the ACA, nor that the SCOTUS would/could possibly rule such a thing to be constitutional. Quit fearing such things, friends! It really does sound like fear-mongering, and I’m growing fearful about the 1984-ish trend our country seems to be taking. We should all fear that most of all.
Karrnal
Shame on QUEERTY for its low level journalism, as shown in its untrue, bad headline from for this article. The lady did not tell Trump to STFU, which would have been rude of her. She calmly and politely asked him to let her finish speaking.
LukeHeavens
Queerty is a tabloid site, not CNN. They’re paraphrasing, not quoting directly. Chill now, you badass “karrnal” beast.
frapachino
But she wasn’t polite about it she got very defensive and copped a major attitude and she for certain had an agenda going into this!
LukeHeavens
He only interrupted her because she’s black, preemptively proving her point about black women being minimized and not taken seriously.
frapachino
Only a racist would think that! Do better!
quinnigan
WHAT!? Are people supposed to take such ludicrous comments seriously? What’s happened to serious, intelligent discourse? Can’t we grow up and argue our viewpoints with sensibility instead of this childish “nyah nyah” talk?
justyouandi
I saw that and I thought she had finished her question also.
She was supposed to be an undecided voter. She clearly was not. Her hostility proved that.
She got what she went for; her 15 minutes of fame!
Mack
No, she asked a legitimate question of which your hero has lied constantly about.
Cam
That is EXACTLY the type of question an undecided voter wants to know the answer to.
But nice try.
quinnigan
Thanks for making sense. But for doing so, you get accused of having him be “your hero”. Exactly the childish retorts we need to avoid.
Mack
In regards to his “preexisting conditions” answer, Trump has said recently (and often) that the Democrats are trying to do away with it and that HE is the only one that wants it. But yet here him and the rest of the Republicans trying to do away with the Affordable Act which does have “preexisting conditions” and it was PASSED MAINLY BY DEMOCRATS. He can’t help but lie and lie constantly.
MISTERJETT
i wouldn’t have been so polite about it. i live for the day i come face to face with this derrière orifice. what i have to say to him would make him have to sit down and cry.
Bob
Ellesia for president!!!! Oh wait, she’s far too smart to be a politician..
frapachino
Uppity and entitled activist gets defensive! There fixed the headline for you Queerty! Btw why haven’t you guys reported on the poll that 45 % of gays support Trump? Waiting!