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As Election Day fast approaches, Donald Trump is suffering yet another self-inflicted wound. The Republican presidential nominee's vow to "protect" women, "whether the women like it or not," is leading critics to say it reminds them of his 2016 "Access Hollywood” tape comments and showcases his refusal to understand the concept of consent.

Trump is an adjudicated rapist, and a has been convicted of 34 felony charges in a "scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election through a hush money payment to a porn actor who said the two had sex." He is awaiting sentencing and additional trials in both state and federal courts—which may never come if he wins re-election.

Fox News host Bill Hemmer interrupted left-leaning pundit Jessica Tarlov Thursday after she pointed out that former President Donald Trump threatened to protect women "whether the women like it or not."

During a panel discussion about the upcoming presidential election, Tarlov argued Vice President Kamala Harris skipped Joe Rogan's podcast because the campaign did not believe his audience was worth the time.

During an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," former George W. Bush speechwriter Elise Jordan expressed disgust with Donald Trump for featuring a speaker at his Green Bay rally who has a history of sending unwanted sexual texts and explicit photos to women.

Speaking with co-host Mika Brzezinski and panelist Molly Jong-Fast about the former president's boast that he is a "protector of women," before adding ominously "whether the women like it or not," on Wednesday night, Jordan noted that former Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre also spoke.

A "powerful" endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris from a fiscally conservative publication has stunned the host and guest of MSNBC's "Morning Joe."

New York Times financial columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin and anchor Mika Brzezinski both expressed surprise Thursday morning that the Economist editorial board chose not to endorse former President Donald Trump.

CNN's John Berman repeatedly tried to pin down Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) on Donald Trump's menacing vow to "protect women ... whether they like it or not," but the MAGA lawmaker kept wriggling away.

The former president taunted his critics who thought that promise was ominous enough by saying women didn't even have to consent to his protection, and Berman pressed the congressman to justify those additional remarks Trump added to that already controversial campaign promise.

Donald Trump taunted his critics by saying he would "protect women ... whether the women like it or not," and a Republican operative who served in his administration had a hard time defending his remarks.

Tricia McLaughlin, who served in several roles in the departments of state and treasury, insisted that Trump and his running mate J.D. Vance stood strongly in favor of protecting women's health and reproductive rights, despite the former president's boasts that he assembled the U.S. Supreme Court that overturned Roe v. Wade.

On Thursday morning, newly-anointed "Morning Joe" co-host Jonathan Lemire relayed to a national TV audience concerns from the editorial board of Nevada's largest paper that Donald Trump is mentally unfit to lead the country.

On Wednesday, the Las Vegas Sun went where the Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post wouldn't go and alerted their readers that the former president is "not healthy enough to become the oldest president ever inaugurated after canceling numerous public appearances due to exhaustion and struggling to complete sentences when he does show up."

A Republican operative told CNN he was "having flashbacks" to previous campaign after House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) dropped a "gift" into the laps of Democrats just ahead of Election Day.

The Louisiana Republican promised "no Obamacare" during a campaign rally Monday for House candidate Ryan Mackenzie in Pennsylvania, and GOP operative Matt Gorman was reminded of past campaigns he had worked on where opposition to the Affordable Care Act had cost votes.

The entire panel on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" lit into Donald Trump on Thursday morning over new comments he made about controlling women's lives –– and then tied him to the death of a pregnant woman in Texas.

During Trump's rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin on Wednesday night, he followed up on his previous boast that he is a "protector" of women, and told the crowd of MAGA diehards, "I want to protect the people, I want to protect the women of our country, I want to protect the women, " before adding, "Well, I’m going to do it whether the women like it or not.”

Donald Trump has donned an orange vest and an apron in the final days of the election campaign, and a Wall Street Journal reporter explained the strategic reasoning behind those stunts.

The former president briefly staffed the fry station at a McDonald's in last week after baselessly claiming Kamala Harris had lied about working there decades ago and awkwardly climbed into the cab of a sanitation truck Wednesday to needle President Joe Biden, who the campaign says called Trump supporters "garbage," and the Journal's senior political correspondent Molly Ball explained the thinking behind those stunts.

According to political analyst Mark Leibovich, Donald Trump's campaign may not have time to recover from the stumbles of the past week with less than a week before voters head to the polls.

Appearing on MSNBC's "Way Too Early," the Atlantic columnist was asked by host Jonathan Lemire what direction voters appear to be going and Leibovich noted the former president's much-maligned Madison Square Garden rally was a setback from which he has little to no time to recover from.

"Well, I mean, I think Trump's closing argument has been really muddled, as you kind of would expect," he told the host. "He is a muddled messenger at this point."

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"The Madison Square Garden event the other day has really hobbled him at the end," he then added. "It's not the kind of thing –– I don't care how glib they are about it –– that you want to be talking about in the final days. It is an ugly message."

"You can say the Access Hollywood thing in 2016 he survived, but this was uglier. It was a sanctioned, current political event that is fresh in everyone's mind," he added.

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A stunned CNN anchor tried to push back on an ally of former President Donald Trump who tried to falsely insist that vaccines are unsafe and contribute to autism.

Howard Lutnick, co-chair of the Trump-Vance Transition team, joined anchor Kaitlan Collins on Wednesday night to discuss what a second term would look like should Trump win re-election.

Former President Donald Trump engaged in a bizarre stunt ahead of his rally in Wisconsin on Wednesday: riding around in a garbage truck with his campaign logo printed on the side of it.

The truck was meant to draw attention to the campaign's grievance over President Joe Biden supposedly referring to Trump's supporters as "garbage" on a campaign call Tuesday evening. There is some dispute over what he said, and the White House has sought to clarify the "garbage" he referred to was the rhetoric of right-wing comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, who called Puerto Rico a "floating island of garbage" at Trump's Madison Square Garden rally. The joke outraged many and sent the GOP into panic mode.