“I would like to respond to that by saying that just discriminating against someone because of the way they were born is completely unfair and it’s evil. [Pence] has even said that electroshock therapy can cure people of their gayness. It’s just so scary that he’s the vice president and in the White House, the president now has these ideologies that you can cure someone of something that they were born with,” Emiliano Ruiz ’18 said.

“They make me feel bad about myself and I understand that they make other women feel bad. I can see how it’ll affect young girls as they see a huge leader in this country demoralize and put down other women, so they will feel bad about themselves. I think that it would make men think that they can act that way. I think that it will inspire more sexism and that will obviously negatively affect women and that people will be rude and they will continue to fight against women’s right. I think it will be easy for Trump to do these things because the House, and the Congress, and everything is also Republican so how they blocked all of Obama’s initiatives, they won’t do the same with Trump and so he can’t be stopped,” Lauren Gregorczyk ’18 said.

“It is really worrying that a president would try to ostracize so many people, especially ones that make up a large population of America so it is really concerning. I feel that Trump needs to do a better job of reaching out and trying reunite people rather than separating everybody and making comments about different groups. For women, when he called the former Miss America, Miss Piggy, Miss Housekeeping, I thought that was really offensive and he had no right to say that,” Rama Hassabelabi ’18 said.

“To me, a Trump presidency means more discrimination against the Hispanic community and just making it harder for hard working people who have crossed the border legally and they deserve to be here just making it harder for them. I don’t think it’s going to affect my life because my family are American citizens but my grandmother is here on a Green card and so is my aunt and I am scared of what could happen to them. I hate how he stereotypes [all Hispanics] as being racists- like that’s so messed up,” Francesca Mustain ’18 said.

“Honestly for myself, I have been offended by [Trump’s comments] with all the transphobic comments. I mean yes his views on the LGBT community changed after Orlando, but he is only focusing on the gay white males of that community. As a member, I could not stand that he got elected, but if I could choose anyone else it would have to be Hillary other than him because with her it is more lenient on the LGBT community because I know that Trump will probably take away the laws that we fought really hard for. We are tired of being just a small group and he needs to realize that more than half of America is LGBT accepting or part of the community themselves. Hearing this just makes me pissed,” Becc Retzolk ’20 said.

“The fact that Trump generalizes Muslims when he is speaking about them and never attempts to say that there are Muslims that are not terrorists unlike other political figures is upsetting. Basically what I am trying to say is that he doesn’t even try to act like there are Muslims who are “good”, he just generalizes them all in one category without making any effort to do otherwise. I have family who wants to come to America and they aren’t terrorists and Trumps acts like every single person who is a Muslim is a terrorist which is pretty depressing,” Eeman Khan ’18 said.