Andrew Tate Says Women ‘Shouldn’t Vote’

Controversial influencer Andrew Tate said Monday that women should not vote.

“Women shouldn’t vote because they don’t care about issues outside of how THEY feel,” he wrote in a post on X, formerly Twitter. “They literally can’t see the bigger picture for the good of a society and they certainly won’t ever sacrifice for it.”

Newsweek has reached out to a representative for Tate for comment.

Tate, 37 is currently under house arrest in Romania. He, and his brother Tristan Tate, 36, are both both awaiting trial in Romania on separate human trafficking charges, alongside two Romania women.

DIICOT, Romania’s anti-organized crime agency, is investigating allegations of human trafficking, including the trafficking of minors, engaging in sexual acts with a minor, forming an organized criminal group, money laundering and tampering with statements. These alleged offences occurred between 2014 and 2024.

The Tate brothers, who are dual U.S.-U.K. nationals, are also wanted in the U.K., where they face allegations of sexual assault. They have denied the allegations against them in the U.K. and Romania.

Andrew Tate who has 10 million followers on X, is well-known for promoting misogynistic views online. He has been banned from Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and TikTok.

Tate described himself as “absolutely a misogynist,” in an interview with a YouTuber, as per the BBC. He also said that “I’m a realist and when you’re a realist, you’re sexist. There’s no way you can be rooted in reality and not be sexist.”

His post about women voting continued, “When you tell this to a woman she doesn’t answer about the meta point, the average female vote, the ability for democracy to be subverted via their emotionality and impressionability etc.”

“There is no concept of anything in the female mind outside of a Trumanshow esque [sic] soap opera, where the entire world and its events exist only for and revolve around them.”

He also wrote, “I’m saying this as one of the worlds most famous man [sic], girls who are UNKNOWN, not even famous – think the world is all about them on a level I could never. They can’t even see ideas outside of themselves. Nothing exists unless they’re in the middle.”

“Like a dog can eat food. But a dog can’t imagine another dog eating food,” he wrote.

At the time of writing, Tate’s post has been viewed over 900,000 times, and liked 11,000 times.

Tate’s post came in response to a post from Andrew Torba, which read, “To see all the problems facing our nation and know that female voters [six] top concern is being able to slaughter their unborn children cements in my mind that the 19th amendment was the single most self-destructive thing this country ever did. Nothing else even comes remotely close.”

Women gained the right to vote in the U.S. in 1920, when the 19^th Amendment was passed.

Torba, who is the CEO of social-media network Gab, was referencing reproductive health care, a key issue in the U.S. election, which is now a little over a month away.

Tate is a vocal supporter of Donald Trump. He pledged $200,000 to the former president after he was found guilty on 34 felony counts in a hush money case. Trump has denounced the prosecution and maintained that his is innocent.

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