Courtesy of CNN:
Presidential candidate Donald Trump defended himself Sunday from the fierce backlash he's received for criticizing Fox News debate moderator Megyn Kelly, insisting he said nothing wrong and that he values women.
"I cherish women," the real estate mogul told CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union," adding that he did not mean to imply that Kelly asked him sharp questions during the debate because she was menstruating.
"Who would say that?" Trump said Sunday. "Do you think I'd make a statement like that? Who would make a statement like that? Only a sick person would even think about that." (And only an even sicker person would actually say it.)
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Trump handled the moment in characteristic fashion -- refusing to give an inch to his detractors and telling Tapper he did "nothing wrong whatsoever."
He blamed his Republican presidential opponents for fanning the flames of controversy, and claimed he meant to refer to her "nose and/or ears" -- not a woman's period.
Trump attacked several of the Republicans who have criticized his remarks about Kelly.
He pointed to former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush's gaffe over women's health funding last week, saying he "came out horribly" and that the comment about overfunding -- which Bush said was meant to reference Planned Parenthood -- "will go down to haunt him and be the same as Romney's '47%.'"
Trump dismissed South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham and former Hewlett-Packard chief executive officer Carly Fiorina.
Trump also went on to dismiss criticism from Erick Erickson, and pointed out that he himself has said worse things in the past. (That's actually true.)
Trump also suggested that he was much more popular that Fox News darling Megyn Kelly, "On social media I'm the one that's beloved.)
Later on Meet the Press Trump said this:
“When I was attacked viciously by those women, of course, it’s very hard for them to attack me on looks, because I’m so good-looking,” he said.
Holy shit! That is some industrial strength denial this guy is working with there.
Trump's arrogance has now turned him into a parody of himself, where there is literally nobody that can say anything as harmful about him that he has not already said himself.
Kind of reminds you of somebody, doesn't it?
Trump is quite the piece of work.
ReplyDeleteWow. He just continues to show that he just doesn't get how lagging behind he is when it comes to where society stands on the status of a woman and where a leader should stand. His use of the soft, loving word "cherish" and saying that he cherishes women, as if women are supposed to be mollified and stop being bothered, is an example--he doesn't see why what he thinks and says is problematic. And in one of his books he insisted that every woman on his Apprentice show flirted with him whether they did it consciously or not--he is so all-knowing, you know--it is impossible that the “bleeding from…wherever" comment can possibly have been even a subconscious reference to a woman being on the rag, as I imagine Trump phrases things when in private.
ReplyDeleteMost women know exactly what he meant by that remark. Trump is a scum-sucking douchebag, puke chunk... and I am being polite here.
ReplyDeleteDamn, Teresa. I'm in my 70's and can remember the men 'back in the day' referring to women 'being on the rag'! It is nothing new and was very common place at one time. No one ever came out against the men in those days.
DeleteThis is all laughable as far as I'm concerned! Nothing new and different is going on here - Trump isn't saying 'new' things by any stretch of the imagination.
Everyone is just horribly conconcered about being 'politically correct'! What bullshit! Republicans have never been 'politically correct'! Check their history and factual information.
Trump is still leading the Republican party in spite of the news coverage against him...and, this is since the debate! What does that tell you about how Americans are feeling as a whole?
Most Republican men are a nasty breed! Just look at McConnell, McCain, Boehner and many others of them currently holding positions in our 'do nothing' U.S. Congress. Plus, they are the most disliked Congress in history!
They are fucking assholes and nothing more than a joke! They should be ashamed of themselves!
RE : Anonymous1:19 PM
DeleteNo doubt you are in your 70's, your response wreaks of dementia, now run along and get your depends changed and get a fresh drool bib while you mumble nonsense through your dentures grandpa. I am being polite here. :)
But did you realize that the one poll that came out also asked the question if they watched the debate and most of them didn't watch it, nor did they follow the news afterwards. I can't believe they even answered the questions.
DeleteThey must have been Trump paid plants.
"scum-sucking douchebag, puke chunk"
DeletePERFECT!!!!!! ROTFLMAO!
I think I am going to quote my Southern grandma here and stck with "Bless his heart".
ReplyDeleteMy southern grandma and aunts always used it that way, too! I second the "blessing"!
DeleteI think I'm going to quote my Southern Italian Grandmother and stick with "Va Fa In Culo!, Strunzo!"
Delete(Loosely translates to "Go screw a butt, Turd!") It doesn't translate well, but it's the ultimate insult a woman can give a man. (It has nothing to do with a person's sexual orientation nor anti gay)
Debate Backfires On Fox News As Crazies Trump, Cruz, and Carson Rise to Top 3 In New Poll
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Trump digs in, plows ahead
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Trump camp in crisis
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Gee, I wonder if he knows what President Obama felt when trump put him through that birther shit?
ReplyDeleteNot an iota....yet.
DeleteNo, he doesn't. Trump believes and feels that he was the sole reason President Obama presented his long-form birth certificate.
DeleteWho's he think he is Derek Zoolander? Really good looking, hardly! Looks like a frog wearing a bad wig.
ReplyDeletePierce Brosnan, George Clooney, Paul Newman -- Hollywood dreamboats -- would never, ever refer to themselves as "I'm so good-looking."
ReplyDeleteThat opinion is for others to make, not Donald Trump about himself. Really good-looking people are humble about it, because they know the praise will pour in, no matter what they say or do.
Donald Trump looks like a day-old crumpet, covered with orange icing. His mouth looks like an underwater creature.
His eyes are the slits of a preying monster. His hair is hilarious, which he's been trying to hide in the last few days with a baseball cap, but it's the outstanding sign of a man too vain to admit his hair loss and forget the dye job and the comb over.
Who would date this guy if they knew nothing about his "billions?" No one.
Trump "cherishes" women? What a gross way to put it.
ReplyDeleteBesides, we all the know the kind of women he cherishes, the ones who are pigs, cows, losers, fat, or lactating.
Sure he cherishes women. He cherishes them...just as long as they stay thin and dumb and wrinkle-free. And as long as they continue to lavish him with flattery and adoration. As soon as they start to show a few flaws, it's out with the old and in with a new model.
DeleteHe's done it with wives and I have no doubt he's done it with any female employees he deigns to allow within the sphere of his Amazingness.
Don't know if many of you watched various programs regarding Trump during the past couple of days. But, women have come out and been interviewed that actually have worked with Donald Trump. They were 'not' negative about him and assuredly didn't reflect he was anti-women!
DeleteRemember, you cannot believe everything that is being put out there!
@anon 1:56pm
DeleteI don't care what someone on his payroll says, I have heard his words out of his own mouth and that is all I need to know what an asshat he is. Now run along Sarah and go help Bristle prepare for that latest abstinence fetus she is carrying.
2:19 PM You are really a ???! 1:56 PM is not a 'Palin' and is someone who doesn't favor or support any of the Palins!
DeleteYou were projecting as usual (I can pick you out as to your writings on this blog).
Get a grip and keep your sources and thoughts more accurate!
Everything that is put out there, 1:56? Like comments from women who have worked with Trump? As opposed to the words that actually come out of his mouth or out of his twitter account? So, which one should we believe?
DeleteI'm going with the words that are "put out there" by Trump, himself.
FOX and Megyn are taking big time heat too! How come no one is covering that?
ReplyDeleteI think The Donald is doing nothing more than playing everyone and he knows how to do it! He has still maintained his ratings, is number one amongst the clown car candidates and the media and Republicans don't know how to handle him except come out 100% against him!
I've never seen such an onslaught. The Republican party is going down and Hillary Clinton will be elected POTUS! In spite of what the media is doing to discredit her too.
We are one fucked up nation due to the Republican party of the past ten years and the media that is also guided by the Republicans.
Voters will prove them wrong!!! Screw Republicans on the national, state and local levels! They have done nothing but harm our nation and could care less about America or Americans that put them in their seats.
Repeal citizens united.
DeleteEveryone know, or those that didn't now do, that Trump is a misogynist.
ReplyDeleteThere is a reason Trump has had to buy his wives, other than his white pasty ( maybe it's fake tan orange also) micropenis.
Where is Sarah, no comments? She will keep quiet as to stay safe. Where is Sarah on the coming of her new grandchild, no comment to stay safe. Do you ever notice when an issue comes up and Sarah doesn't want to get her tit in the wringer, she absolutely says nothing. What a chicken. I doubt we will be seeing Bristol anywhere around Sarah because of photographers ready to take growing pictures. Sarah never says anything at all about Tripp or Track's babies either. What does she have against her grandchildren.
ReplyDeleteThis is the smartest we ever see Sarah Palin! Whenever she keeps her mouth shut, which hasn't been very often.
DeleteShe's learned the hard way and knows she has little input anywhere in our world!
This is getting very, very good!!
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Yesterday, Trump's "whatever" was in reference to Meygn's nose, now he has included her ears. Tomorrow he will add her anus to the reference. Keep going, Donnie boy. You are getting warmer...
ReplyDeleteNose and ears? I didn't see or hear that! Which network covered it?
DeleteAnus? Who would want to see either of Trump's or Megyn's? Yuk!!!
Megyn, definitely a peek.
DeleteTrump is suffering from Oozing Ego Syndrome. Really, Donald? Have you no mirrors in your lavish-but-tacky home?
ReplyDeleteI never thought we'd see a bigger narcissistic asshole than Sarah Palin. Donny Trump has met his match!
ReplyDeleteI read some of the other Trump quotes from this morning's shows. His narcissism has truly reached record-breaking pathological - and frightening - levels.
ReplyDeleteI can just imagine his office and home, filled with portraits and mirrors so he can constantly gaze upon his most valued treasure.
How can anyone listen to this megalomaniac and think he should be permitted within 10 miles of the White House???
His narcissism isn't growing, probably the same as it has has always been. It's just more on public display right now. And out in public is where he is going to meet his match somehow, and it won't be a gorgeous blonde who will say anything for money, a la Megyn Kelly.
DeleteI'd be very curious what the turnover rate was for live-in household help at the Trump residence when Donald was in wee formative and grade school years. Surely his upbringing and cleaning up his messes was never undertaken by those who actually created him.
ReplyDeleteHow much money on top of a doubtlessly ironclad no-disclosure contract was enough to deal, day after day, with the cost in one's destroyed spirit as well as physical and mental decline? If this is the quality of self-control one has at 69, what do you suppose, for instance, 11 was like...?
I suspect he was quite the little monster.
DeleteHe mentioned that he was sent away to an all boys Military Academy because he had 'become a handful'.
Delete11 was like now. Because he is still 11 in personality and public behavior. Think about it...
Delete"Blood Libel" anyone?
ReplyDeleteTrump would sue the makers of Cialis and Viagra if his erection didn't last four hours.
ReplyDeleteAll four inches.
DeleteThis is not the first time that Donald Trump has continued to make stupid remarks in the face of objective facts. I'm writing about his Birther Crap. Even after President Obama showed the long form of his birth certificate, Trump kept repeating the inuendo "well, if you want to believe him," stuff. Finally, President Obama made Trump the butt of his jokes at one of the White House Correspondents Dinner.
ReplyDeleteTrump respects women? He objectifies women in his beauty pageants. He said that his daughter had a beautiful figure and he would date her if she wasn't his daughter. He has traded in each wife for a younger model. There is nothing about Donald Trump that says that he supports women, that they will be "his thing" when he is elected president.
Who makes the dumber remarks, Sarah or Donald? Sarah's fame was short-lived. She went from zero to sixty when McCain nominated her and she ran for VP (and lost). She thought that she was cashing in when she quit her job as governor to appear on Fox and take the book and reality show deal. Now, she's nothing more than a joke.
Trump has much more money and he has been a public joke for a much longer period of time. There was his out-there marriage to Ivana, where they truly were a garish, boorish couple. Their breakup was equally flamboyant, with Trump stashing both his wife and his mistress, the future Mrs. Trump #2 in the same hotel in Aspen. His divorce was more fodder for the tabloids. He has been making obnoxious headlines for his land deals to set up golf courses and just about everything else. The only world where he had not tried making a splash was the political world. The good news is that it was his own former campaign manager who said that the stuff that Trump said as a real estate mogul or tv show host should not be said by a politician. The stuff that got Trump into the headlines is not the stuff that should be good for a politician. I hope that his early ratings don't last and that people have better sense than to keep supporting Trump as a serious candidate. They saw through Sarah Palin, and I hope that they will see through Trump, too.
I can't help but wonder...Hey, Sarah! See what you could have had. You didn't even have to work at it, just throw your name in and you could have been right where Donald Trump is!
ReplyDeleteYou could be getting all this attention. All you have to do is through your name in and start saying all those outlandish things you are so famous for.
It doesn't have to cost you anything, just use your line about how you are running a "rouge" campaign and post stuff to Facebook and Twitter.
You'll get into the first few debates and then you can scream discrimination and play the victim if you get booted from any of the debates.
That will give you lots of self-righteous creds that should bring you tons of money in the future.
Sarah Palin would never have made it as far as Trump has! She doesn't have the smarts or ability to work the press/media as he does. Plus, he has one hell of a lot more money than does Sarah!
DeleteSarah also wore out her welcome with the media, Republican party, Alaskans and the majority of Americans!
And, the country knows too much about her lies and fraudulent life!
I am a bit surprised that so many here are taking his remarks at face value. To me, it seems like he's playing a character one might see while watching wrestling on TV. I've never liked him and presume he's quite an asshat in real life, but talking about his "good looks" seems way more WWE character than delusion.
ReplyDeleteIn late 60s and early 70s my manager's, co-workers and subordinates were much worse that the Donald is being in his current misogyny. I think Trump is a dinosaur from that age.
DeleteHe's such a dumbinint male...
DeletePardon me while I go get more popcorn!
ReplyDeleteCherish. Note how he pointedly did NOT say RESPECT. No, cherish.
ReplyDeleteHis mentally ill ego will be his downfall (along with the GOP, one hopes)
Reading this, the first thing that came to mind was John Lennon in the 60s saying that The Beatles were more popular than Jesus Christ.
ReplyDeleteAs for "because I'm so good looking," beauty is in the eye of the beholder, Donnie, and you aren't.
That straw colored comb over, which gets longer and more ridiculous automatically disqualifies Trump from being called "good looking." His piggy fat face doesn't help, and when he talks, he looks angry. He always looks angry.
DeleteI told my husband about what was being said on this blog, and then we started laughing about that "eeew" TV moment when the solidified white saliva ball formed in the corner of Trump's mouth. So appealing.
Delete5:02 Actually they were. I couldn't find it but will link some Wiki stuff here.
DeleteOne also must be careful not to take the Lennon More Popular Than Christ quote out of context. Wiki is interesting.
But, I digress. As I was saying, at the height of their popularity and having had been around and famous for a while at the time of Lennon's quote, it is not farfetched to think that more people around the world were familiar with the Beatles than with Christ.
Remember, music transcends language, culture and religion. And also add in the fact that the Christian religion is not universally believed and you see it could be possible.
Add in today's technology and I wouldn't be surprised if a few other mega-rock-stars couldn't also say: "At this given moment in time, more people know of us than know of Jesus Christ."
Right now we have 2.2 billion Christians on the planet. Out of 7.1 billion people. Since Christianity tends to be a Western religion and much of Christianity is centered in the Western world, is it safe to say most Christians have heard about the Beatles?
The next question would be what percentage of the non-Christian world population know the Beatles vs. those who don't. Extrapolate out how many might know of Christ vs those who never heard of the guy, etc.
When you think about the numbers you see that it is possibly true that even today, more people know about the Beatles than do J.C.
Here's what the Vatican newspaper said several years ago on the subject, via wiki.
"In a 2008 article marking the 40th anniversary of the Beatles' double album The Beatles (also known as the "White Album"), the Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, issued the statement:
"The remark by John Lennon, which triggered deep indignation, mainly in the United States, after many years sounds only like a 'boast' by a young working-class Englishman faced with unexpected success, after growing up in the legend of Elvis and rock and roll. The fact remains that 38 years after breaking up, the songs of the Lennon-McCartney brand have shown an extraordinary resistance to the passage of time, becoming a source of inspiration for more than one generation of pop musicians."[31]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/More_popular_than_Jesus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religious_populations
Donald, Donald. Donald---oh my.
ReplyDeleteWhat a buffoon! Donald "cherishes" women? Since when? The quality I admire most about him is his intense admiration for his looks, and his graceful humility. Did I mention his way with words? He's been on every network's sunday program (phone ins while his wig is being cleaned by his illegal immigrant mail order cleaning lady.
ReplyDeleteI never thought I'd say this, but "Thank You, Mr. Trump!"
You've somehow managed to put a ball gag on Sarah's Facebook, and Brancy's as well, we women "cherish" you for it, honest. When you win, and you know you will, pick Bill Cosby as your running mate. Thank me later, jackass!!
He is very thin skinned.
ReplyDeleteYikes, he actually thinks he's very good looking. Oh my. The fact is that he's extremely ugly and it's impossible to find one positive thing to say about his face or body. On a talk show several years back, I heard him say that his wife can confirm that he has very nice legs. I sure don’t want to ever see those. He may even have passable legs, but the thought of having to see where they grow from, the hunched giant white whale part of him, naked in bed at night...ick.
ReplyDeleteAnd his comment makes no sense in terms of what he’s applying it to. He says women can’t criticize his looks and so have to say something else critical. No. They could criticize his looks but that’s not what they’re interested in. They’re criticizing aspects of him that are about what actually matters to them. He so does not attribute brains to women. This statement of his is just more proof of it and proof that he is such a relic of another era.
I just hope while all the media is giving The Donald all the attention and air time, one of those other mental cases that was at the debate doesn't manage to sneak ahead.
ReplyDeleteI am hoping Trump goes down and takes the GOP with him.
Imagine if Megyn Kelly had asked Trump a really tough question like "What books do you read"? It's that damn gotcha media again.
ReplyDeleteHey, I don't read the books. I write the books. In fact, I'm rich, so I can have people write my books for me.
DeleteI just finished a bowl of popcorn, hand popped like we all used to make it (remember when we thought Jiffy Pop was the latest technology?!?).
ReplyDeleteI think the Trump knows how to play to his audience. Like the person earlier said it's like the wresting on TV. Just hype and playing along with a script.
The bigger the boasting and the more audacious the comments, the more attention he gets. I doubt he will even remember or care what he said this time 3 years from now.
Sarah Palin fine tuned that technique. The problem I see with Trump (in terms of politics, not his hate, etc.) is that, like Sarah, there are people who totally agree with him to whom he is giving voice and making it all seem OK for us to go back to the way it was in the 50s.
Also, too, what else is scary is that there are those who will say that Trump has wonderful business experience and if he can run a multi-million dollar business, he can easily run the U.S. government.
Sarah-Palin v. 2.2.
Nancy French takes Erik Erikson to task for cancelling on Trump, at Patheos:
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trump thinks he's good looking? lol what a narcissist. he's way down on the "good looking" scale. even most of his nemesis's the "illegals" got him beat in the looks department.
ReplyDeleteWHAT? "No one holds a grudge like Palin."
ReplyDeleteAint that the truth!
Just ask Levi
Just ask David Letterman
Just ask Katie Couric
Just ask Trooper Wooten
Just ask the town of Wasilla
Just ask Alaska
Just ask McCain
Just ask President Obama
Just ask any media that refuses to kiss Sarah Palin’s and the Palin gang's ass
Huffington Post :
Palin's Shameful Silence on Trump's Misogyny
Alaska's quitter governor and the Tea Party's queen diva Sarah Palin uses her Facebook page to comment on all things political, including touting Donald Trump's candidacy for the presidency. But when it comes to Trump's outrageously sexist comments about her former colleague at Fox News, Megyn Kelly, Palin has remained shamefully silent about El Donaldo's latest round of misogyny.
So much for Mama Grizzly solidarity with conservative women like Kelly, with whom Palin once declared: "We are the women's movement!"
When Trump recently assaulted John McCain -- who plucked Palin from obscurity in August of 2008 to join him on the Republican ticket -- it was an entirely different matter. Palin immediately came to Trump's defense, calling him a hero and blaming the scuffle on the media. It was an act of betrayal directed at McCain -- and yet another instance of her blatant duplicity -- that only Palin could pull off.
Trump, of course, has been nothing more than a serial sexist when it comes to his constant attacks on women: He has called women "ugly," "fat," "dogs," "slobs," "bimbos," "extremely unattractive," ad infinitum, all leading up to his allegation this weekend that Kelly was menstruating during the Republican presidential primary debate Thursday tonight.
I guess in Palin World, that all makes you a "hero." So be it...
No one holds a grudge like Palin.... (aint that the truth)
Read more at Huffington Post
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/7963048
Washington Post :
ReplyDeleteSick of Trump-mania?
.... It’s nothing compared to 2008’s Palin-sanity. Palin's on that chart, too -- hers is the red line, as it is on the graphs below. We tracked the number of news mentions by week for Palin for the first eight weeks she was on the scene, and they make Trump's towers look like distinctly un-classy....
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/08/05/sick-of-trump-mania-its-nothing-compared-to-2008s-palin-aganza/
Sarah take a good look at the charts. It shows how relevant you really are.
In order to keep her name in the news, Sarah Palin has to create controversy and ride on the coattails of people like Trump, the Duggar family, President Obama and anybody else who is being reported in the news. What's really sad is Sarah Palin rode the coattails of America's Medal of Honor Recipient and now discarded him and also rides on the coattails of her daughter Bristol Palin and her blog written by Sarah Palin’s ghostwriter.
Why can't Sarah Palin be satisfied with the money she grifted from our nation and hideout in her Wasilla compound looking angrily from her tower at the people of Wasilla who once liked her and now hates her?
He's very Adamic. "It was the woman that YOU gave me SHE caused me to...". So similar reasoning as in "the garden". Leading anyone forward?
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