Ana Navarro’s One-Woman Revolt Against Donald Trump

The pundit and Republican strategist Ana Navarro has called Donald Trump a “vile bigot,” “flat-out racist,” “jerk,” “swamp thing,” and “crazy orange man with an unidentifiable furry object on his head ranting into the wind.” She makes her living coining tag lines, but she cemented her reputation by quoting the man she reviles verbatim. Earlier this month, the day a 2005 tape surfaced in which Trump bragged about “grabbing” women “by the pussy,” Navarro, who is forty-four, was sparring with a panel of commentators on CNN about what to make of the scandal. “Every single Republican is going to have to answer the question ‘What did you do the day you saw the tape of this man boasting about grabbing a woman’s pussy?’ “ she said. The rest of the panelists had been avoiding the vulgar term, and one of them, a Trump booster named Scottie Nell Hughes, visibly flinched. “Will you please stop saying that word? My daughter is listening,” she interjected. “Don’t tell me you’re offended when I say ‘pussy,’ but you’re not offended when Donald Trump says it,” Navarro responded, evidently taking some pleasure in the repetition.