On the heels of several major corporations distancing themselves from Donald Trump's various business interests, the Republican presidential candidate admitted Saturday that he didn't think the corporate backlash to his inflammatory comments about Mexican immigrants would be "quite this severe."
"I knew it was going to be bad because I was told this. All my life I have been told this: If you are successful, you don't run for office," Trump said in an interview on Fox News, addressing the recent spate of businesses that have severed their relationships with his brand. "I didn't know it was going to be quite this severe, but I really knew it was going to be bad."
So as you can see Trump is still unable to fault entirely fault himself for making those racist comments about Mexicans, and instead tries to spin this as some prejudice against "successful" people running for office. Because you know we've never elected a successful man as President in this country.
Well despite Trump's attempts to deflect, the negative reactions to his comments keep right on coming:
For instance Mexico's largest television network has cut ties with Trump.
NACAR is now refusing to hold its annual Camping World Truck Series Awards Banquet at the Trump National Doral Golf Club Hotel in Miami.
And now even Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush, and Mitt Romney have condemned his remarks as well.
And of course this all comes on the heels of NBC dumping "The Apprentice" and Macy's dropping his clothing line.
All of this has caused Trump to label himself "America's whipping post."
And we all thought that Sarah Palin was the queen of self pity and victimization.
I don't know about anybody else but I can hardly wait to see Trump up on the debate stage with the rest of the GOP clown car. That is going to be some "must see TV."
I don't see him making it as far as the debates though I'll laugh my head off watching if he does. His so-called candidacy is going down the toilet and I hope every last dime he has goes with it. Karma is a bitch, Donnie!
ReplyDeleteDo we know yet who the debate moderator is going to be? That alone could make for some must-see-TV!
ReplyDeleteMaybe Sarah Palin?
DeleteBeaglemom
Trump you is on the other side of the fence now.
ReplyDeleteHow does it feel ? You arrogant buffoon.
The sane and rational folks are getting tired of shitholes like you.
Change and empowerment are here to stay.Get over yourself.
Pendejo.We have your number.
He's still clueless.
DeleteHe thinks this is all driven by jealousy because he is "successful".
He has no clue it is because his racism is disgusting to the general population and businesses that rely on the general population are not going to allow themselves to be taken down by his albatross.
Pizza joint in Chicago purchased Trump's renamed left over beer from the local brewer...and it going to donate the proceeds to the International Latino Cultural Center of Chicago. http://b96.cbslocal.com/2015/07/01/chicago-brewery-renames-trump-beer-f-your-hair-ginos-east-buys-the-kegs/
ReplyDeleteBravo for them!!!
DeleteHow wonderful!
DeleteGINO's East is NOT a pizza joint. It isa Chicago icon, one of the originators of Chicago style deep dish pizza,
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuxsuzdHNLo
ReplyDeleteA Mexican laborer responds to The Donald
Sent that video to the DON on Twitter. lol
DeleteI guess The Donald is okay with white guys born in the USA who rape and murder
Delete1:53, who said they had to be born in the US? As long as they're white, he doesn't seem to care. I have yet to hear a single comment from him expressing concern about the violence OTHERS perpetrate - EVER.
DeleteLike most racists bigots, Trump believed that many more people shared his views. Few do. Good lesson for him.
ReplyDeleteI hate to be cynical and rain on your parade, 12:29, but the only ones who are disagreeing with him are those who either are running against him or large corporations who can recognize that it is a good thing for them if they distance themselves from him.
DeleteAs long as he maintains his high position in the polls, the idiot peoples agree with him. Well, THOSE people, anyway, and they even hate themselves!
So, unfortunately that "few do" idea is a bit ...fanciful.
Not nearly severe enough!
ReplyDeleteOT but the only time a palin is named in the media these days is to announce unplanned pregnancy or to state that there were dead wrong.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.forbes.com/sites/brucejapsen/2015/07/05/with-palin-death-panels-debunked-congress-pushes-end-of-life-planning/
I wonder who they will have work with Trump to prepare him for the debates? Will he listen when he is told to keep a steady demeanor and not to be short tempered and reactive?
ReplyDeleteHe'll be as horrible to prepare as was Sarah Palin (run w/McCain - second spot - VP) - but, for some very different reasons.
I wonder how far he'll get in this primary race. This is going to be fun tow watch! Hillary and her team must be enjoying this Republican show of clowns!
I really don't expect to see Trump succeed in this race.
He'll be gone before the debates.
DeleteDonald Trump is nothing more than a pompous ass! A reactive, odd man with one huge ego! I feel for his kids as he is ruining their name and finances.
ReplyDeleteI don't feel sorry for his kids. They've had all kinds of advantages. They can get jobs just like everyone else.
DeleteBeaglemom
His kids are all evil anchor babies, from a immigrant that had babies so she could stay here.
DeleteHis kids won't have a clue (I'm suspecting) w/o the guidance of their Dad. They have been raised in a 'rich' bubble and educated well.
DeleteIt is said all of his adult children have jobs within some of the Trump companies.
Seriously doubt any of them will ever have to go 'outside' to find jobs.
He's destroying the GOP
ReplyDeleteA quick look around at the mass Republican implosion on the Sunday shows provided ample evidence that Donald Trump is destroying the Republican Party.
http://www.politicususa.com/2015/07/05/proof-donald-trump-destroying-republican-partys-chances-2016.html
Ooops?
ReplyDelete:-D
DeleteWhat Donald is really saying is "when did all these minorities get so uppity? Don't they know their place? And how dare they hold me responsible for my racism!".
ReplyDeletePlus, don't forget what he has said and thinks about President Obama!
DeleteTrump is a fucking jerk and embarrassment to our country that is showing himself all over the world! Surely his behavior is going to be detrimental to his business! Feel for his poor kids in having a parent the likes of "The Donald"!
Celebrity has always offered air-tight insulation from reality. Trump's reaction, while appalling to anyone with some decency and morals, surely makes sense in his head, someone who has never had to face any accountability.
ReplyDeleteYep
DeleteAgreed about the insularity re celebrity. I would add that many CEOs operate this way as well (usually not the good ones) where their statements are rarely challenged, leading to more insularity.
DeleteThe disturbing bit is that he's shot up in the polls. So politically, he's been rewarded by a segment of the population even as everyone else is deeply repulsed by him.
Wait a second, isn't his first wife an immigrant and his kids with her only first generation? Even worse, their mother wasn't even a citizen when they were born, so Donnie, Jr, Ivanka and Eric are ANCHOR BABIES!
DeleteI hadn't paid much (if any) attention to Trump until he started to do the political fan dance some years ago. Until then, I had no idea:
ReplyDelete1. He came across as stupid in the same way as Sarah (see vacuous).
2. He was as big a narcissist as Sarah.
3. He was a bigot.
It's a very poor way to present yourself to the modern world Donald. You should have kept your mouth shut.
Please remember too that many years ago, Donald Trump took out a full page ad in NY papers to cement the 'wilding' cases against young (teen-aged 'black males') when a white female jogger was raped and brutally beaten in 1989.
DeletePBS, Ken Burns did a documentary, The Central Park Five in 2014.
dowl
Rick Santorum: All undocumented immigrants ‘obviously are coming with a bad intent’
ReplyDeletehttp://www.rawstory.com/2015/07/rick-santorum-all-undocumented-immigrants-obviously-are-coming-with-a-bad-intent/
Ol' Frothy is next.
Here's hoping that Trump keeps polling high with the nutwings.
ReplyDeleteI want him on that debate stage so bad I can taste it.
I'm talking serious cocktails and a whole lot of sack food.
Does anybody know who Bristol's latest baby daddy is or when she's due
ReplyDeleteFocus, this is a post about Donald Trump.
DeleteBristol could be protecting anyone. Including Trump. The Palins get around in mysterious ways.
DeleteDonald Trump has yet to claim Bristles latest bastard also too. The Palin's are all out huntin' again this weekend to find her a baby daddy before she drops with latest spawn, so far, not a one baby daddy or potential baby daddy has stepped forward.
DeleteDGM
DeleteYou are nothing here but another poster. This is Gryphen's blog and he, and only he, can sensor what he wants up. So run along back to the pee and you can share your confederate flag waving stories on how you waved it on Independence Day.
Your right I am just a poster on here and I like that Gryphen allows my comments. if it was up to you and the other sheeple on here you would ridicule and ban me. I fly the Stars and Stripes and have been banned from c4pee. I like keeping an open mind unlike the majority on here. You can't deny that probably 90 % of the posters are on here to profess their hate for Silly Sarah. The comment above is made by one of them.
DeleteTrump is rich because he was handed his fortune by his father. Only Donald Trump would run for President in this first attempt at political office. Running for the United States Congress or Governor is below his stature, and below his ego. DUMP TRUMP!
ReplyDeleteDonald Trump is doing major harm to the Republican party and they waited a good two weeks (the clown car candidates) before they even began coming out against him. Way too slow and their words are pretty much the same - they were provided the info as to what to say!!
DeleteI suggest that Republicans are in continued big trouble in 2016! And, they only have themselves to blame.
One more example of a desperate Republican trying to win over hearts and minds of bigots and racists. In the end, they lose big time.
ReplyDeleteModern American conservatism is racist to the core
ReplyDelete...And yet this kind of historical mis-remembering is virtually a requirement for being a modern conservative in the United States. It’s why Donald Trump can say, with no sense of misgiving (and Bill O’Reilly heartily agree) that thanks to defective black culture and bad parenting, black children are “in worse shape today” than at any other time in American history, including, one presumes, that time during which they were being forced to pick cotton from dawn to dusk, beaten or mutilated for learning to read, raped by depraved owners, sold away from their families, or relegated to deliberately inferior separate and unequal schools (or in some cases denied education altogether).
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/07/anti-racist-tim-wise-modern-american-conservatism-is-racist-to-the-core/
Trump exploits tragic shooting to reinforce his racism
ReplyDelete...The reality is that Trump is using the actions of one person as a representation of all Mexican immigrants. It’s no surprise that he’s doing this to add some legitimacy to the racist comments he made during his candidacy announcement.
Both Univision and NBC severed ties with Trump after he said that “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re sending people that have lots of problems…they’re bringing drugs, they’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.”
He conveniently omits that undocumented immigrants have risked death and rape to enter a foreign country for better opportunities for themselves and their families. Earlier this year, there were reports of Border Control agents who were charged with raping women trying to cross the border. Is it a coincidence that Trump didn’t mention that inconvenient truth?
Ever since his controversial statements, Trump has been trying to prove that he’s not racist, but fearlessly honest about the realities of illegal immigration. What’s laughable is how he thinks anecdotal evidence is enough to prove his point. It reminds me of climate change deniers who mention a single day of heavy snowfall to “prove” that the environment isn’t suffering from greenhouse gasses.
Imagine if a presidential candidate drew conclusions about all white people based on the actions of Dylann Roof? It would be egregious, and no one would take that person seriously. But CNN/ORC polling indicates that Republicans list Trump among their top contenders. What does that say about the right?
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/07/trump-exploits-tragic-shooting-to-reinforce-his-racism/
Or all Easstern European immigrants (like his ex-but still good buddy Ivana) with the Boston bombers?
DeleteI will NEVER forget Trump's racist remarks about President Obama! They were horrible and still of record. Calling for his birth certificate, his college grades, etc. Trump is an embarrassment to America - much the same as were Sarah and Todd Palin!
DeleteTrump is a horrible piece of work! How did they raise someone like him?
Gotta say how impressed I am at the way NASCAR is not backward and coming forward to exclude bigotry and welcome all Americans. They obviously mean business.
ReplyDeleteNascar IS a business, and all their clients are NOT backwards rednecks. A good business will never do anything to offend a block of their clients, no business should ever knowingly lose a client, especially over dumbazz stuff.
Delete"Whipping post" is he? So who is tied to the post for the whipping? Hm, who deserves a little reprimand? Thinking. Thinking....
ReplyDeleteHe insults Gregg Allman Band.
DeleteHe's dumber than Palin...but not by much.
ReplyDeleteI think the thing on his head has attacked his brain.
ReplyDeleteWhat's funny is, he never really considered seriously running for President. This has always been the side show leading up to the next episode of The Apprentice. Now he may have to seriously run in order to carry the title Former Presidential Candidate. It's the latest trend in Republican resume fluffing. You get to carry the title for the rest of your life.
ReplyDeleteAnyone here from Chicago? Are there pictures of the re-named beer - the 'Chinga Tu Pelo' one? Please post one!
ReplyDeleteIf all the nations refuse to send their contestants to Trump's pageant. Trump will be stuck with wife number for a long time.
ReplyDeleteTo misquote a woman I respected, Ann Richards
ReplyDelete"Poor Donald, was born with a golden toupee in his mouth"
It pleases me that Donald is feeling the pain so quickly. It also pleases me that the other GOP wannabees were hemming and hawing and shitting their pants for three long weeks before coming out against him and his filthy remarks.
Especially Jeb Exclamation Point, His wife is hispanic, he should have come out day 1 to denounce and distance himself from Trump. What took so long? Had to discuss it with your donors first?
Screw Trump, he'll pay his way to the stage, and I, for one can't wait.