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<p>On Thursday, <a href="https://www.someecards.com/topic/donald-trump/">President Trump</a> was met at Krasinskich Square in Warsaw, Poland by two things he hates: protest and literature.</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="und" dir="ltr"><a href="https://t.co/nE9nVoQyNq">https://t.co/nE9nVoQyNq</a></p>&mdash; Agata Diduszko (@agatadiduszko) <a href="https://twitter.com/agatadiduszko/status/882902841890885632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 6, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>According to the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-went-to-poland-and-was-met-by-women-dressed-as-handmaids_us_595e3c89e4b0d5b458e874d8" target="_blank">Huffington Post</a>, &quot;a dozen women arrived at the protest dressed as handmaids&quot; to counter the crowd of Trump&#39;s supporters. The president was visiting the city on his way to the G20 summit.</p><p><span style="letter-spacing: -0.01em;">Dressed in the red cloaks and white bonnets known to readers of Margaret Atwood&#39;s </span><em style="letter-spacing: -0.01em;">The Handmaid&#39;s Tale </em><span style="letter-spacing: -0.01em;">(and more recently, fans of the </span><a href="https://www.someecards.com/entertainment/tv/handmaids-tail-hulu-trailer/" style="letter-spacing: -0.01em;">hit show on Hulu</a><span style="letter-spacing: -0.01em;">), the statement was less than subtle. </span></p><p><span style="letter-spacing: -0.01em;">Although Trump may not have gotten the message, since </span><a href="https://www.someecards.com/news/politics/twitter-empty-bookshelf-trump-white-house/" style="letter-spacing: -0.01em;">this is his bookshelf</a><span style="letter-spacing: -0.01em;">:</span></p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">A contact sends along a picture of a bookcase in what&#39;s called the Old State Department Library in the EEOB. It&#39;s the first thing you see <a href="https://t.co/o4hNMkyDJr">pic.twitter.com/o4hNMkyDJr</a></p>&mdash; Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) <a href="https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/824680714344026112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>In the novel, Atwood portrays a dystopian future where women have no rights and even less reproductive freedom.</p><p><span style="letter-spacing: -0.01em;">The &quot;handmaids&quot; in the story wear red cloaks that denote their job as sex slaves, and the white bonnets act as &quot;blinders&quot; that keep them from looking around and easily communicating with one another.</span></p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Polish <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Handmaids?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Handmaids</a> waiting for <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Trump?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Trump</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TRUMPwPOLSCE?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TRUMPwPOLSCE</a> <a href="https://t.co/NNQxD60S0s">pic.twitter.com/NNQxD60S0s</a></p>&mdash; Agata Diduszko (@agatadiduszko) <a href="https://twitter.com/agatadiduszko/status/882899431670067200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 6, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="pl" dir="ltr">Demo przeciw Trumpowi na rogu Miodowej i Schillera już się zbiera. Można dołączać:) <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TRUMPwPOLSCE?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TRUMPwPOLSCE</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/partiarazem?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@partiarazem</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/Zieloni?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Zieloni</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/inicjatywaPL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@inicjatywaPL</a> <a href="https://t.co/friMCpKx8c">pic.twitter.com/friMCpKx8c</a></p>&mdash; Agata Diduszko (@agatadiduszko) <a href="https://twitter.com/agatadiduszko/status/882898592540872704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 6, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>Meanwhile, Trump&#39;s positions on abortion and healthcare have done nothing to reassure women in the real world of the United States&#39; commitment to those very things.</p><p>Trump has made <a href="https://www.someecards.com/news/politics/mika-brzezinski-donald-trump-tweet-hands/">horrifying statements about women&#39;s faces</a> and acted <a href="https://www.someecards.com/news/politics/trump-creeps-reporter-ireland-prime-minister/">inappropriately with female journalists</a>, and that&#39;s just in the last week. He&#39;s <a href="https://www.someecards.com/news/politics/donald-trump-executive-order-abortion-no-women/">limited access to reproductive health </a>around the world and proposed<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/5-ways-the-senate-health-care-bill-is-cruel-to-women_us_594c0c6ae4b0a3a837be79c6" target="_blank"> an American healthcare</a> system that does wonders for destroying maternity care. There&#39;s also the charges of <a href="https://www.someecards.com/news/politics/people-reporter-natasha-stoynoff-speaks-out-trump/">sexual assault</a>.</p><p>This isn&#39;t the first protest to take advantage of the striking red imagery.</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">A Handmaid’s Tale of Protest <a href="https://t.co/dWWrOVcJuV">https://t.co/dWWrOVcJuV</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/HandmaidsTale?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#HandmaidsTale</a></p>&mdash; Margaret E. Atwood (@MargaretAtwood) <a href="https://twitter.com/MargaretAtwood/status/880927963159695360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 30, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Inspired by &#39;The Handmail&#39;s Tale,&#39; these women dressed up as handmaids and protested on Capitol Hill. <a href="https://t.co/ocPojHXJD7">pic.twitter.com/ocPojHXJD7</a></p>&mdash; Mic (@mic) <a href="https://twitter.com/mic/status/880156369575264258?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 28, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><oembed>https://twitter.com/TaylorLorenz/status/879767650917904384</oembed><div className="ad-splitter"></div><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Women wearing &quot;Handmaids Tale&quot;-inspired costumes circled the Capitol today to protest the Senate Republican health care bill. <a href="https://t.co/Zn70Qmv7fX">pic.twitter.com/Zn70Qmv7fX</a></p>&mdash; NBC News (@NBCNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/879822965998747649?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 27, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>Between reports that Trump had friendly politicians <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/06/politics/poland-nationalist-party-trump/index.html" target="_blank">bus supporters</a> to his speech and the signs at the above protest, there&#39;s plenty of evidence that Trump&#39;s welcome in Poland wasn&#39;t as warm as his future tweets will make it seem.</p><h2>Update 7/7/17: Yup, here&#39;s his tweet.</h2><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">My experience yesterday in Poland was a great one. Thank you to everyone, including the haters, for the great reviews of the speech!</p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/883218784663818241?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 7, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>Donald Trump thanks &quot;the haters,&quot; just another day in America.</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

Polish 'handmaids' confronted Trump with two things he hates: literature and protest.

On Thursday, President Trump was met at Krasinskich Square in Warsaw, Poland by two things he hates: protest and literature.https://t.co/nE9nVoQyNq&mdash; Agata Diduszko (@agatadiduszko) July 6, 2017 According to the Huffington Post, &quot;a dozen women arrived at the protest dressed as handmaids&quot; to counter the crowd of Trump&#39;s supporters. The president was visiting the city on his way to the G20 summit.Dressed in the red cloaks and white bonnets known to readers of Margaret Atwood&#39;s The Handmaid&#39;s Tale (and more recently, fans of the hit show on Hulu), the statement was less than subtle. Although Trump may not have gotten the message, since this is his bookshelf:A contact sends along a picture of a bookcase in what&#39;s called the Old State Department Library in the EEOB. It&#39;s the first thing you see pic.twitter.com/o4hNMkyDJr&mdash; Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) January 26, 2017 In the novel, Atwood portrays a dystopian future where women have no rights and even less reproductive freedom.The &quot;handmaids&quot; in the story wear red cloaks that denote their job as sex slaves, and the white bonnets act as &quot;blinders&quot; that keep them from looking around and easily communicating with one another.Polish #Handmaids waiting for #Trump #TRUMPwPOLSCE pic.twitter.com/NNQxD60S0s&mdash; Agata Diduszko (@agatadiduszko) July 6, 2017 Demo przeciw Trumpowi na rogu Miodowej i Schillera już się zbiera. Można dołączać:) #TRUMPwPOLSCE @partiarazem @Zieloni @inicjatywaPL pic.twitter.com/friMCpKx8c&mdash; Agata Diduszko (@agatadiduszko) July 6, 2017 Meanwhile, Trump&#39;s positions on abortion and healthcare have done nothing to reassure women in the real world of the United States&#39; commitment to those very things.Trump has made horrifying statements about women&#39;s faces and acted inappropriately with female journalists, and that&#39;s just in the last week. He&#39;s limited access to reproductive health around the world and proposed an American healthcare system that does wonders for destroying maternity care. There&#39;s also the charges of sexual assault.This isn&#39;t the first protest to take advantage of the striking red imagery.A Handmaid’s Tale of Protest https://t.co/dWWrOVcJuV #HandmaidsTale&mdash; Margaret E. Atwood (@MargaretAtwood) June 30, 2017 Inspired by &#39;The Handmail&#39;s Tale,&#39; these women dressed up as handmaids and protested on Capitol Hill. pic.twitter.com/ocPojHXJD7&mdash; Mic (@mic) June 28, 2017 https://twitter.com/TaylorLorenz/status/879767650917904384Women wearing &quot;Handmaids Tale&quot;-inspired costumes circled the Capitol today to protest the Senate Republican health care bill. pic.twitter.com/Zn70Qmv7fX&mdash; NBC News (@NBCNews) June 27, 2017 Between reports that Trump had friendly politicians bus supporters to his speech and the signs at the above protest, there&#39;s plenty of evidence that Trump&#39;s welcome in Poland wasn&#39;t as warm as his future tweets will make it seem.Update 7/7/17: Yup, here&#39;s his tweet.My experience yesterday in Poland was a great one. Thank you to everyone, including the haters, for the great reviews of the speech!&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 7, 2017 Donald Trump thanks &quot;the haters,&quot; just another day in America.

On Thursday, President Trump was met by protesters in Krasinskich Square in Warsaw, Poland.