KLMNO A4 Politics & The Nation EZ SU WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 2015

“I will be the greatest jobs president that God ever created.” With signature bombast, Trump jumps into 2016 race

This is beyond anybody’s expecta- himself on the stage. As of now, Mogul makes it clear tions. There’s been no crowd like Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R), who is this. And, I can tell, some of the expected to declare a candidacy, he sees his wealth as a candidates, they went in. They might not. virtue in GOP contest didn’t know the air-conditioner Trump has always understood didn’t work. They sweated like the upside of the spotlight (“From dogs. They didn’t know the room a pure business point of view, the BY BEN TERRIS was too big, because they didn’t benefits of being written about have anybody there. How are they have far outweighed the draw- new york — Inside the auditori- goingtobeatISIS?Idon’tthinkit’s backs,” he once wrote), and feint- um of — past the going to happen. Our country is in ingatWhiteHousebidshasbeena Trump Bar, the Trump Grill, the serious trouble. We don’t have vic- great way to get airtime. But Trump Cafe and Trump’s Ice tories anymore. We used to have Trump knew that eventually he Cream Parlor, beside the glass en- victories, but we don’t have them. would have to take the show to a casements selling Donald Trump When was the last time anybody whole new level. neckwear and holding the basket saw us beating, let’s say, China in a “You can’t con people, at least of Donald Trump books — the trade deal? They kill us. I beat not for long,” Trump wrote in his man himself strode through the China all the time. All the time.” 1987 book, “The Art of the Deal,”in crowd, descended a golden escala- His more-than-45-minute a passage that felt like it was writ- tor and stood at a lectern in front speech touched on the need to ten for today. “You can create ex- of eight American flags Tuesday. close Wall Street loopholes, the citement, you can do wonderful He came bearing a message. need to build a giant wall on the promotion and get all kinds of “I’m really rich,” he said. nation’s southern border, and the press, and you can throw in a little And another one. need to stop Iran from developing hyperbole. But if you don’t deliver “Today I am declaring my can- a nuclear weapon. “So, just to sum the goods, people will eventually didacy for president,” he said. “... up, I would do various things very catch on. “ I will be the greatest jobs presi- quickly,” Trump said. Somewhere In fact, anyone confused about dent that God ever created.” high up in the rafters, a man kept why Trump would undertake this That declaration came 1,700 KENA BETANCUR/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE VIA GETTY IMAGES shouting how much the country long-shot bid for the presidency words or so into a speech that Real estate magnate and TV personality Donald Trump announced his White House bid at Trump Tower needed Trump to be president. shouldspendalittletimewiththis started with the Islamic State and in New York, declaring that the United States is run by “losers” and that “the American Dream is dead.” “The American Dream is dead,” book. China and Mexico, dipped into a Trump said at the end of his ad- What’s the point? “I do it to do discussion about how our country part because his assets and liabili- group of tourists. “Come inside could give me a job, that would be dress. “But if I win, I will bring it it.” The polls say you’re a long shot. is run by “losers,”and included his ties are intricately complex, en- and make some memories.” good.” back bigger and better and stron- “I have learned much more from opposition to the trade deal being twined with public subsidies and One older couple decided they As the crowd waited for ger than ever before.” conducting my own random sur- pushed by President Obama, be- opaque private partnerships. would check out the proceedings Trump’s arrival Tuesday, a mur- While few people think Trump veys than I could have ever fore circling around to exactly Then there’s the source: Trump, and started to walk in. mur started going through the has a chance of winning the presi- learned from the greatest consult- how much money he has. who’s wrestled with a reputation “Price of admission is, you have press. Of all the signs that had dential election, he certainly has a ing firms.” Are you doing this just For while Wisconsin Gov. Scott as a chronic exaggerator. to wear a shirt,” he said. Trump’s named scrawled upon it, chance to make an impact on the for the press? “One thing I’ve Walker (R) shops at Kohl’s, and “This is beyond anybody’s ex- Inside, a diverse crowd — old it was hard to find any with the race — mostly by making things learned about the press is that while Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) pectations,”hesaidtoacrowdthat and young, black and white, words “For President” or “2016” difficult for the Republican Party they’re always hungry for a good pushes back against the descrip- he described as “thousands,” scantily clad and bespoke — gy- on them. Was this all a joke? Was as he seeks its nomination. The story, and the more sensational tion of his family fishing vessel as though it looked more like hun- rated to a soundtrack that blasted Trump just here to announce that Democratic National Committee the better.” a luxury speedboat, and while for- dreds. “There have been no on repeat throughout the enor- there would be a new season of gleefully sent out a statement dur- For Trump, perhaps the best merFloridagovernorJebBush(R) crowds like this.” mous auditorium. The songs all “The Apprentice”? ing his speech in which a spokes- model for actually winning the triestogivehimselfsomemeasure In reality, members of team seemed depressingly fitting for a Then Trump rode down the es- woman sardonically praised the White House is an unlikely one for of distance from his patrician Trump spent the hour before the quixotic campaign: “Dream On” calator and headed to the stage, as mogul for adding “some much- this conservative Republican: family, Trump wants the world to event out in the streets of mid- and “You Can’t Always Get What Neil Young’s “Rockin’ in the Free neededseriousnessthathasprevi- President Jimmy Carter. know exactly how rich he is. town Manhattan trying to lure You Want,” played so often and so World” — a song critical of Presi- ously been lacking from the GOP “I’d never understood how Jim- “I’m not doing that to brag,” he tourists in to fill out the crowd. A loudly that the music could have dent George H.W. Bush — blared. field.” She added that “we look my Carter became president,” he said, after spending five minutes man in a pressed suit who would doubled as a torture technique. At first, it wasn’t just unclear forward to hearing more about his wrote.“Theansweristhataspoor- detailing his financials, including say only that he “worked for “He’s run so many successful whether he was running for presi- ideas for the nation.” ly qualified as he was for the job, claimed assets of $9.2 billion and Trump” offered passersby free T- businesses,” said Kenn Dancer, dent. It was unclear what he was Trump is currently polling in Jimmy Carter had the nerve, the a net worth of $8.7 billion. shirts and already-made signs, who held a sign that he said “his talking about at all. ninth place, according to The guts, the balls, to ask for some- Of course, buyer beware this many handwritten, to hold if they friend” made for him. “It’s great to be at Trump Tower. Washington Post’s most recent thing extraordinary. That ability number. Even the most aggressive would come on in and see the Anastasia Anastasiadis said: “I It’s great to be in a wonderful city, survey average. That means when above all helped him get elected auditorshavefounditchallenging show. got an e-mail from Facebook say- New York,” he said. “And it’s an the first debate is held in Cleve- president.” to assess Trump’s balance sheet, in “Only in New York,” he said to a ing I should come. If Mr. Trump honor to have everybody here. land on Aug. 6, he might find [email protected]

COLLEGESEXUALASSAULT WASHINGTONPOST-KAISERFAMILYFOUNDATIONPOLL Student activist turned her pain into a movement ‘I’m going to go a different way to find justice’

BY NICK ANDERSON Most of the young women and men surveyed said they don’t los angeles — Savannah Badal- consider sexual assault a big ich had fallen asleep during a problem at their schools. Nearly student government retreat one three-quarters said the subject night in fall 2012 at a mountain rarely or never came up in discus- resort east of this city. She recalls sions with friends. waking up to a shock: A respected Activists such as Badalich are student leader was sexually as- seeking to get campuses to face saulting her. He urged her to keep the issue. quiet as she elbowed him and They are mobilizing under told him to stop. “Shhhh,” she banners national and local: End remembers him whispering. “It’s Rape on Campus, Know Your IX okay.” (referring to a federal law that Badalich, then a sophomore at prohibits gender bias), One Less, UCLA, said she didn’t report the Stand Up and many more. They incident to authorities because are the engine for Take Back the she feared no one would believe Night, Consent Week, the her. She kept her pain almost Clothesline Project, Project Un- entirely to herself. At one point, breakable, It Happens Here, the she tried to commit suicide. Red Flag Campaign, and other EVELYN HOCKSTEIN FOR THE WASHINGTON POST But during her junior year, events and programs that reflect Savannah Badalich founded 7,000 in Solidarity at UCLA. 6 To read more on this topic, and to see the poll results, visit wapo.st/sexassaults. Badalich stopped keeping quiet. a demand for a cultural shift in She went public with her story, attitudes toward sexual violence. ber of UCLA’s 28,000-plus under- go into a community and tell a force to develop reform propos- UCLA’s campus. She excused her- joining other students in a na- No more victim-blaming, they graduates likely to be sexually community how to act,” she said, als, including expansion of train- self from the gathering and tionwide uprising against sexual say. Better yet, no more victims. assaulted in their lifetimes. When “they’re going to be pissed off.” ing and prevention programs and walked downstairs to fall asleep violence that has shaken colleges The activists sometimes pro- the campaign launched in Sep- Someone from a fraternity, she more institutional support for on a bed. She said she awoke to and universities and seized atten- voke controversy. At Columbia tember 2013, Badalich identified said, might fire back: “Are you those who report sexual violence. the assault about an hour later. tion in state capitals and in Wash- University, Emma Sulkowicz car- herself as a survivor in the Daily calling us rapists? We don’t rape.” “When you go through the nuts Cyndi Badalich said she didn’t ington. ried a mattress around campus Bruin student newspaper. In Avinoam Baral, 21, a graduat- and bolts of our task force recom- learn what had happened to her “I decided, I’m going to go a during her senior year to protest April 2014, she wrote a narrative ing senior and outgoing presi- mendations, you can hear Savan- daughter for a year, until Savan- different way to find justice,” the school’s response to her re- of her assault for the Huffington dent of the undergraduate stu- nah’s voice in there,” UC Presi- nah called to tell her about the Badalich said. “We’re getting port that another student raped Post. It described her alleged dents association, said Badalich dent Janet Napolitano said. “How article in the Daily Bruin. “It just there. The revolution’s happen- her. “Carry That Weight,” as her assailant as “a friend and fellow displayed skill in navigating great is that?” cuts you to your core,” the mother ing.” performance-art protest was Bruin” but did not identify him. those minefields. “Savannah’s Napolitano said that Badalich said. “You feel helpless.” The 22-year-old graduated Fri- known, became a viral image. But But Badalich didn’t just tell her awesome,” he said. “What makes is “as influential as any student She is astounded at what her day from UCLA with a bachelor’s the man she accused denied her story. She and her allies gathered her really effective: She is an I’ve come across on any issue.” daughter has accomplished since degree in gender studies and a allegation, and the university thousands of signatures from stu- activist but also somebody who is then: “She’s taken it and empow- minor in global studies. But she cleared him of wrongdoing dents who made a pledge to “only good at engaging people where Awaking to an assault ered other people, and herself.” also got a parallel education in through an internal inquiry. He engage in consensual sexual ac- they’re at.” The daughter of a rocket scien- Now Savannah Badalich is the politics of college sexual as- has sued Columbia, saying the tivities,” be an “effective bystand- Recent developments in Cali- tist and a small-business owner, handing off the issue to others sault, here in the first state to school failed to protect him from er” in preventing situations that fornia have elevated the issue of Badalich grew up in Simi Valley, a after traveling thousands of miles establish affirmative consent — a “harassment campaign.” could lead to violence and “sup- sexual assault. In September, Gov. suburb northwest of Los Angeles in a campaign that took her to or “yes means yes” — as the rule Last fall, Rolling Stone maga- port survivors of sexual assault.” Jerry Brown (D) signed the perhaps best known as the home Sacramento, Oakland, San Fran- for sex in college. zine published an article about They also pushed UCLA ad- groundbreaking law that re- of the Ronald Reagan Presiden- cisco, Washington (for a White UCLA Chancellor Gene Block an alleged gang rape at a Univer- ministrators to beef up policies quires colleges to adopt an affir- tial Library. In high school, she House event) and Charlottesville gave Badalich a shout-out at the sity of Virginia fraternity house, and educational programs, and mative-consent standard for stu- was a docent at the library, a (for a conference at the Univer- commencement, saying that she but key elements of the story fell they hosted discussions with stu- dent conduct cases involving sex. long-distance runner and a class sity of Virginia). “transformed an experience of apart under scrutiny, leading the dent groups on how to spread the The “yes means yes” law drew valedictorian. Her campaign is being re- personal trauma into a student- magazine to issue a retraction. message of affirmative consent. national attention to the princi- Her parents were as protective branded as the Bruin Consent led movement offering healing The journalistic debacle posed a The approach was to seek cooper- ple that consent is valid only if it as any others who send daughters Coalition. New student leaders and support to survivors of sexual challenge for the activist move- ation rather than confrontation. is “affirmative, conscious and vol- off to college. They talked with hope to build on the momentum. assault and violence. And in do- ment, with some fearing that it “We totally are feminists,” untary.” her about staying safe at UCLA “My big worry is we make sure ing so, she has become a crucial would fuel doubts about the cred- Badalich said. “But we didn’t At the same time, the Univer- and bought her a pink canister of to sustain it,” Badalich said. “And voice and resource to survivors ibility of survivors’ stories. want to be branded as radical or sity of California was on a quest pepper spray. It wasn’t of any use we don’t stop working just be- both here and across the country.” man-hating.” to improve its response to sexual on the night Badalich said she cause the press and the president A new Washington Post-Kaiser A student pledge When she met with fraternity assault in a world-renowned sys- was attacked. aren’t looking.” Family Foundation poll of cur- At UCLA, Badalich and others leaders, she said, she was careful tem with 10 campuses, 233,000 Badalich said she had been [email protected] rent and recent students found called their campaign 7,000 in to avoid saying anything that students and more than 150 re- drinking at a student government that 1 in 5 women say they were Solidarity. The name derived would create the impression that ports of forcible sex offenses in retreat in the Big Bear Lake resort Scott Clement and Peyton M. sexually assaulted in college. from their estimate of the num- she had prejudged them. “If you 2013. Badalich served on a task area, about two hours from Craighill contributed to this report.