During a rally in Montana last week, President Donald Trump mocked the #MeToo movement as he imagined throwing an ancestry testing kit to Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., in an effort to make her prove her claimed Native American heritage.
“We are going to do it gently because we’re the #MeToo generation, so we have to be very careful,” the president said to scattered laughter from the crowd.
Nearly nine months after the social media hashtag demonstrated the scope and frequency of people’s experience with sexual assault, harassment and abuse, the president’s derision of #MeToo is representative of the wide partisan divide that has developed around the movement.