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Former Miss Universe Says Donald Trump Called Her ‘Miss Piggy,’ Forced Her to Exercise in Front of Reporters
by Gabriella Paeilla
Venezuela native Alicia Machado won the Miss Universe contest in 1996, the same year Donald Trump took over the pageant. But following her victory, she put on weight, leading some to speculate that she’d be stripped of her title (your regular reminder that pageants are gross). But she says it was Trump’s appalling behavior after her weight gain that affected her mental health and caused her to suffer from years of disordered eating.
Machado’s interview with Jim Moret on Inside Edition will air on Thursday night, but in a preview, she says that Trump regularly bullied her, calling her “Miss Piggy” and “Miss Housekeeping.” It somehow gets worse: Trump also called her an “eating machine” on the "Howard Stern" show , and told reporters, “She weighed 118 pounds or 117 pounds and she went to 160 or 170. So this is somebody that likes to eat.” The last bit was punctuated with a trademark Trump smirk, of course.
But perhaps the most disturbing part of Machado’s testimony is the video footage of the time Trump invited media outlets to watch and photograph her working out at the gym. As she told the New York Times, she mentioned to the president of Miss Universe that she wanted some help working out and eating more healthfully:
They took me to New York, installed me in a hotel. The next day, they took me to the gym, and I’m exposed to 90 media outlets. Donald Trump was there. I had no idea that would happen.
I was about to cry in that moment with all the cameras there. I said, “I don’t want to do this, Mr. Trump.” He said, “I don’t care.”
The gaggle of reporters frantically photographing Machado in what should have been a private setting is viscerally upsetting to watch.
At the end of all this, Machado gets the literal last laugh: She’s becoming a U.S. citizen and will be able to vote in the November election. When Moret asks her if she’d vote for Trump, she cracked up on camera. Hard same.
by Gabriella Paeilla
Venezuela native Alicia Machado won the Miss Universe contest in 1996, the same year Donald Trump took over the pageant. But following her victory, she put on weight, leading some to speculate that she’d be stripped of her title (your regular reminder that pageants are gross). But she says it was Trump’s appalling behavior after her weight gain that affected her mental health and caused her to suffer from years of disordered eating.
Machado’s interview with Jim Moret on Inside Edition will air on Thursday night, but in a preview, she says that Trump regularly bullied her, calling her “Miss Piggy” and “Miss Housekeeping.” It somehow gets worse: Trump also called her an “eating machine” on the "Howard Stern" show , and told reporters, “She weighed 118 pounds or 117 pounds and she went to 160 or 170. So this is somebody that likes to eat.” The last bit was punctuated with a trademark Trump smirk, of course.
But perhaps the most disturbing part of Machado’s testimony is the video footage of the time Trump invited media outlets to watch and photograph her working out at the gym. As she told the New York Times, she mentioned to the president of Miss Universe that she wanted some help working out and eating more healthfully:
They took me to New York, installed me in a hotel. The next day, they took me to the gym, and I’m exposed to 90 media outlets. Donald Trump was there. I had no idea that would happen.
I was about to cry in that moment with all the cameras there. I said, “I don’t want to do this, Mr. Trump.” He said, “I don’t care.”
The gaggle of reporters frantically photographing Machado in what should have been a private setting is viscerally upsetting to watch.
At the end of all this, Machado gets the literal last laugh: She’s becoming a U.S. citizen and will be able to vote in the November election. When Moret asks her if she’d vote for Trump, she cracked up on camera. Hard same.
Trump trashes GOP trade agenda
The presumptive Republican nominee's speech, a play for blue-collar support, isn't sitting well with party elites.
By NOLAN D. MCCASKILL and ELI STOKOLS
Donald Trump doubled down on economic populism and protectionism in a speech Tuesday, effectively taking conservative orthodoxy on free trade and tossing it onto the trash pile rising behind him.
Promising to tear up existing trade deals — from the Bill Clinton-era North American Free Trade Agreement to the recently negotiated Trans-Pacific Partnership — and to punish China and other countries that he argued are dealing unfairly with the U.S., the presumptive GOP presidential nominee called for a new era of American economic independence.
Cloaking himself in the anti-globalist garb of British Brexit voters and rising nationalist movements beyond the U.S., Trump blasted Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee, for selling out American workers to “global elites” by supporting free trade.
“This wave of globalization has wiped out totally, totally our middle class," said Trump, standing in front of stacks of compressed metal on the floor of Alumisource, a plant south of Pittsburgh that provides aluminum scrap and other raw materials to the aluminum and steel industries. "It doesn't have to be this way. We can turn it around and we can turn it around fast."
In a rare deviation from his prepared remarks, Trump urged voters to reject Clinton’s “policy of fear and her policy of absolute nonsense because it’s not working and it’s grossly incompetent and we can’t take it any longer, and we’re not going to take it any longer.”
But in running to Clinton’s left on trade as part of a pitch to disaffected blue-collar workers in America’s Rust Belt, Trump managed to further alienate mainstream conservatives.
“This speech flies in the face of what Republicans believe about markets and the economy and free trade,” said Tony Fratto, a Republican consultant and former assistant Treasury secretary. “I think it’s going to be much harder for him to consolidate support among Republicans after this speech.
“Richard Trumka could have given that speech,” he continued, referencing the president of the AFL-CIO, the country’s biggest organized labor group.
Amazingly enough, Trump’s speech brought Big Labor and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce together in their opposition to it, with both organizations blasting Trump on Twitter.
“Under Trump’s trade plans, we would see higher prices, fewer jobs and a weaker economy,” the U.S. Chamber of Commerce tweeted from its official account, starting a storm of tweets torching Trump during his speech, each of which linked to a page on the organization's website with the headline: “Trump’s Trade Policies Would Make America Recession-Bound Again.”
Trumka, meanwhile, linked to an article reporting on Trump “cheating workers” and pointed out that the candidate vowing to create American jobs produces clothing under his personal brand in foreign countries where labor is cheaper.
Trump, in so emphatically planting this policy flag on trade in the heart of the country’s old industrial core, appears to be laying bare a political calculation: that he believes the older, white voters likely to be receptive to his message are more critical to his White House bid than the class of Republican donors he’s attempting to engage.
“If you run a business, how can you support a candidate who is explicitly saying he's going to tank international trade? This would be disastrous for many of their companies, not to mention our economy,” said Tim Miller, a GOP operative who served as a spokesman for Jeb Bush and an anti-Trump super PAC during the GOP primary.
“Take that speech and hand it to any of the big Republican donors and ask them if they can live with that, and they can’t,” Fratto said. “They couldn’t even mouth the words out loud. He’s actually making Hillary Clinton a more palatable alternative for a lot of Republicans.”
But Trump’s promise to restore manufacturing jobs, in part, by increasing tariffs on goods produced by companies moving jobs overseas, is likely to register with those white, working-class voters who powered his primary campaign.
Asserting that China, not yet part of TPP, would enter the agreement “through the backdoor at a later date,” Trump promised to “appoint the toughest and smartest — and I know them all — trade negotiators to fight on behalf of American workers.”
He also called for the U.S. to declare its economic independence again. But to do that, he said, requires a reversal of “two of the worst legacies of the Clinton years”: NAFTA and China’s entry into the World Trade Organization.
He ticked through the economic impact of both policies, calling the former “the worst trade deal in history” and crediting the latter for “the greatest jobs theft in history.”
And he hammered the former secretary of state for not only praising the TPP — which Trump cast as “the greatest danger yet” — but calling it the “gold standard,” a point the Republican National Committee has also seized on, attacking Clinton for backtracking on her support of the deal after she launched her presidential campaign.
Clinton’s primary challenger, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, has railed against the TPP and other trade deals. As secretary of state, Clinton advocated for the TPP dozens of times but maintained that she never worked on the deal directly. Last fall, however, Clinton announced during an interview with PBS’ Judy Woodruff that she opposed TPP, noting that she didn’t believe it would meet the high bar she set for it.
“The TPP, as it’s known, would be the death blow for American manufacturing,” Trump said, adding that the deal would undermine America’s economy and independence.
Trump argued that the TPP would create an international commission that would be influenced by Wall Street donors.
“It should be no surprise then that Hillary Clinton, according to Bloomberg, took a ‘leading part in drafting the Trans-Pacific Partnership.’ Please remember that, especially in November,” Trump said. “She praised or pushed the TPP on 45 separate occasions, and even called it the ‘gold standard.’”
“Hillary Clinton was totally for the TPP just a short while ago, but when she saw my stance, which is totally against, she was shamed into saying she would be against it, too,” Trump continued, while boasting that he also shamed Clinton into saying “radical Islamism.”
“But have no doubt that she will immediately approve it if it’s put before her. That is guaranteed. Guaranteed. She will do this just as she’s betrayed American workers for Wall Street and throughout — throughout her career.”
Beyond attacking Clinton, Trump laid out several proposed trade initiatives of his own. His prepared remarks included footnotes and further citations to make his case, and his usual bombast was replaced with footnotes citing news organizations — some of which his campaign has banned from its events, including POLITICO and The Washington Post — and specific sections of trade acts, including the Trade Act of 1974 and the Trade Expansion Act of 1962.
Trump said he would order the Commerce secretary to identify trade violations foreign countries are using to harm American workers and direct agencies to use all legal tactics to end such practices, as well as renegotiate th
e terms of NAFTA “to get a better deal — by a lot, not just a little, by a lot — for our workers.”
“And if they don’t agree to a renegotiation, which they might not because they’re so used to having their own way — not with Trump, they won’t have their own way — then I will submit under Article 2205 of the NAFTA agreement that America intends to withdraw from the deal.”
The real estate mogul would tell the Treasury secretary to “label China a currency manipulator” and vow that any nation that devalues their currency “to take unfair advantage of the United States — which is many countries — will be met with sharply, and that includes tariffs and taxes.”
The billionaire also said that he would tell the U.S. trade representative to bring cases against China — both in America and with the WTO. The U.S. and China have a complex, sometimes tense relationship, and past U.S. presidents have tread lightly around imposing retaliatory tariffs against China because of the two nations’ economic co-dependence. Trump, however, once suggested placing a 45 percent tariff on imported Chinese goods.
“China’s unfair subsidy behavior is prohibited by the terms of its entrance to the WTO, and I intend to enforce those rules and regulations, and basically I intend to enforce the agreements for all countries, including China,” Trump said.
But if China doesn’t halt its “illegal activities” — which Trump noted includes theft of American trade secrets — he said, while emphasizing that he loves saying this, “I will use every lawful presidential power to remedy trade disputes, including the application of tariffs.”
Trump also targeted globalization, blaming politicians for “aggressively pursuing” a policy that cost Americans jobs and benefited the financial elite while leaving millions of workers “with nothing but poverty and heartache.”
“Our politicians took away from the people their means of making a living and supporting their families,” Trump said, while faulting globalization for wiping out the middle class.
But it doesn’t have to be this way, Trump said.
“We can turn it all around — and we can turn it around fast,” he said. “But if we're going to deliver real change, we're going to have to reject the campaign of fear and intimidation being pursued by powerful corporations, media elites and political dynasties.
The people who rigged the system for their benefit will do anything — and say anything — to keep things exactly as they are.”
Those same people, Trump continued, are backing Clinton “because they know as long as she is in charge nothing’s going to change.” Inner cities will remain poor, factories will stay closed, borders will continue to be left open and special interests will maintain their control, Trump said.
“Hillary Clinton and her friends in global finance want to scare America into thinking small — and they want to scare the American people out of voting for a better future,” Trump said. “My campaign has the opposite message.”
Trump again boasted that he was right about the Brexit vote. The United Kingdom on Friday voted to leave the European Union, but Trump will say Britons voted to “take back control of their economy, politics and borders.”
“I was on the right side of that issue, as you know — with the people — I was there. I said it was going to happen. I felt it,” Trump said. “While Hillary, as always, stood with the elites, and both she and President Obama predicted that one — and many others — totally wrong. “ Now it's time for the American people to take back their future. We’re gonna take it back. That’s the choice we face. We can either give in to Hillary Clinton's campaign of fear or we can choose to believe again in America.”
The presumptive Republican nominee's speech, a play for blue-collar support, isn't sitting well with party elites.
By NOLAN D. MCCASKILL and ELI STOKOLS
Donald Trump doubled down on economic populism and protectionism in a speech Tuesday, effectively taking conservative orthodoxy on free trade and tossing it onto the trash pile rising behind him.
Promising to tear up existing trade deals — from the Bill Clinton-era North American Free Trade Agreement to the recently negotiated Trans-Pacific Partnership — and to punish China and other countries that he argued are dealing unfairly with the U.S., the presumptive GOP presidential nominee called for a new era of American economic independence.
Cloaking himself in the anti-globalist garb of British Brexit voters and rising nationalist movements beyond the U.S., Trump blasted Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee, for selling out American workers to “global elites” by supporting free trade.
“This wave of globalization has wiped out totally, totally our middle class," said Trump, standing in front of stacks of compressed metal on the floor of Alumisource, a plant south of Pittsburgh that provides aluminum scrap and other raw materials to the aluminum and steel industries. "It doesn't have to be this way. We can turn it around and we can turn it around fast."
In a rare deviation from his prepared remarks, Trump urged voters to reject Clinton’s “policy of fear and her policy of absolute nonsense because it’s not working and it’s grossly incompetent and we can’t take it any longer, and we’re not going to take it any longer.”
But in running to Clinton’s left on trade as part of a pitch to disaffected blue-collar workers in America’s Rust Belt, Trump managed to further alienate mainstream conservatives.
“This speech flies in the face of what Republicans believe about markets and the economy and free trade,” said Tony Fratto, a Republican consultant and former assistant Treasury secretary. “I think it’s going to be much harder for him to consolidate support among Republicans after this speech.
“Richard Trumka could have given that speech,” he continued, referencing the president of the AFL-CIO, the country’s biggest organized labor group.
Amazingly enough, Trump’s speech brought Big Labor and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce together in their opposition to it, with both organizations blasting Trump on Twitter.
“Under Trump’s trade plans, we would see higher prices, fewer jobs and a weaker economy,” the U.S. Chamber of Commerce tweeted from its official account, starting a storm of tweets torching Trump during his speech, each of which linked to a page on the organization's website with the headline: “Trump’s Trade Policies Would Make America Recession-Bound Again.”
Trumka, meanwhile, linked to an article reporting on Trump “cheating workers” and pointed out that the candidate vowing to create American jobs produces clothing under his personal brand in foreign countries where labor is cheaper.
Trump, in so emphatically planting this policy flag on trade in the heart of the country’s old industrial core, appears to be laying bare a political calculation: that he believes the older, white voters likely to be receptive to his message are more critical to his White House bid than the class of Republican donors he’s attempting to engage.
“If you run a business, how can you support a candidate who is explicitly saying he's going to tank international trade? This would be disastrous for many of their companies, not to mention our economy,” said Tim Miller, a GOP operative who served as a spokesman for Jeb Bush and an anti-Trump super PAC during the GOP primary.
“Take that speech and hand it to any of the big Republican donors and ask them if they can live with that, and they can’t,” Fratto said. “They couldn’t even mouth the words out loud. He’s actually making Hillary Clinton a more palatable alternative for a lot of Republicans.”
But Trump’s promise to restore manufacturing jobs, in part, by increasing tariffs on goods produced by companies moving jobs overseas, is likely to register with those white, working-class voters who powered his primary campaign.
Asserting that China, not yet part of TPP, would enter the agreement “through the backdoor at a later date,” Trump promised to “appoint the toughest and smartest — and I know them all — trade negotiators to fight on behalf of American workers.”
He also called for the U.S. to declare its economic independence again. But to do that, he said, requires a reversal of “two of the worst legacies of the Clinton years”: NAFTA and China’s entry into the World Trade Organization.
He ticked through the economic impact of both policies, calling the former “the worst trade deal in history” and crediting the latter for “the greatest jobs theft in history.”
And he hammered the former secretary of state for not only praising the TPP — which Trump cast as “the greatest danger yet” — but calling it the “gold standard,” a point the Republican National Committee has also seized on, attacking Clinton for backtracking on her support of the deal after she launched her presidential campaign.
Clinton’s primary challenger, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, has railed against the TPP and other trade deals. As secretary of state, Clinton advocated for the TPP dozens of times but maintained that she never worked on the deal directly. Last fall, however, Clinton announced during an interview with PBS’ Judy Woodruff that she opposed TPP, noting that she didn’t believe it would meet the high bar she set for it.
“The TPP, as it’s known, would be the death blow for American manufacturing,” Trump said, adding that the deal would undermine America’s economy and independence.
Trump argued that the TPP would create an international commission that would be influenced by Wall Street donors.
“It should be no surprise then that Hillary Clinton, according to Bloomberg, took a ‘leading part in drafting the Trans-Pacific Partnership.’ Please remember that, especially in November,” Trump said. “She praised or pushed the TPP on 45 separate occasions, and even called it the ‘gold standard.’”
“Hillary Clinton was totally for the TPP just a short while ago, but when she saw my stance, which is totally against, she was shamed into saying she would be against it, too,” Trump continued, while boasting that he also shamed Clinton into saying “radical Islamism.”
“But have no doubt that she will immediately approve it if it’s put before her. That is guaranteed. Guaranteed. She will do this just as she’s betrayed American workers for Wall Street and throughout — throughout her career.”
Beyond attacking Clinton, Trump laid out several proposed trade initiatives of his own. His prepared remarks included footnotes and further citations to make his case, and his usual bombast was replaced with footnotes citing news organizations — some of which his campaign has banned from its events, including POLITICO and The Washington Post — and specific sections of trade acts, including the Trade Act of 1974 and the Trade Expansion Act of 1962.
Trump said he would order the Commerce secretary to identify trade violations foreign countries are using to harm American workers and direct agencies to use all legal tactics to end such practices, as well as renegotiate th
e terms of NAFTA “to get a better deal — by a lot, not just a little, by a lot — for our workers.”
“And if they don’t agree to a renegotiation, which they might not because they’re so used to having their own way — not with Trump, they won’t have their own way — then I will submit under Article 2205 of the NAFTA agreement that America intends to withdraw from the deal.”
The real estate mogul would tell the Treasury secretary to “label China a currency manipulator” and vow that any nation that devalues their currency “to take unfair advantage of the United States — which is many countries — will be met with sharply, and that includes tariffs and taxes.”
The billionaire also said that he would tell the U.S. trade representative to bring cases against China — both in America and with the WTO. The U.S. and China have a complex, sometimes tense relationship, and past U.S. presidents have tread lightly around imposing retaliatory tariffs against China because of the two nations’ economic co-dependence. Trump, however, once suggested placing a 45 percent tariff on imported Chinese goods.
“China’s unfair subsidy behavior is prohibited by the terms of its entrance to the WTO, and I intend to enforce those rules and regulations, and basically I intend to enforce the agreements for all countries, including China,” Trump said.
But if China doesn’t halt its “illegal activities” — which Trump noted includes theft of American trade secrets — he said, while emphasizing that he loves saying this, “I will use every lawful presidential power to remedy trade disputes, including the application of tariffs.”
Trump also targeted globalization, blaming politicians for “aggressively pursuing” a policy that cost Americans jobs and benefited the financial elite while leaving millions of workers “with nothing but poverty and heartache.”
“Our politicians took away from the people their means of making a living and supporting their families,” Trump said, while faulting globalization for wiping out the middle class.
But it doesn’t have to be this way, Trump said.
“We can turn it all around — and we can turn it around fast,” he said. “But if we're going to deliver real change, we're going to have to reject the campaign of fear and intimidation being pursued by powerful corporations, media elites and political dynasties.
The people who rigged the system for their benefit will do anything — and say anything — to keep things exactly as they are.”
Those same people, Trump continued, are backing Clinton “because they know as long as she is in charge nothing’s going to change.” Inner cities will remain poor, factories will stay closed, borders will continue to be left open and special interests will maintain their control, Trump said.
“Hillary Clinton and her friends in global finance want to scare America into thinking small — and they want to scare the American people out of voting for a better future,” Trump said. “My campaign has the opposite message.”
Trump again boasted that he was right about the Brexit vote. The United Kingdom on Friday voted to leave the European Union, but Trump will say Britons voted to “take back control of their economy, politics and borders.”
“I was on the right side of that issue, as you know — with the people — I was there. I said it was going to happen. I felt it,” Trump said. “While Hillary, as always, stood with the elites, and both she and President Obama predicted that one — and many others — totally wrong. “ Now it's time for the American people to take back their future. We’re gonna take it back. That’s the choice we face. We can either give in to Hillary Clinton's campaign of fear or we can choose to believe again in America.”
Hello all
Female in a governing role !
I was raised in a city where a woman was elected mayor http://ottawa.ca/en/residents/arts-...tage/witness-change-visions-andrews-newton-14.
Current Premiers Christy Clark B.C,Kathleen Wynne Ont.,Rachel Notley Alberta,.
In Germany Chancellor Angela Merkel and some others
There is talented women
Cheers
Booker
Like the way he always does... Either he does denies everything or claims it is a leftist source
ound: Denial is his most common reaction. He knows the truth but is too arrogant to accept it like most rightists. His responses are very emotional also. LolAlso what he does is he answers like a politician. He will reply without ever answering the query. Here is an example of that. So funny.
Most rightists live in delusions as you can see.
So Hillary Clinton has 1 family out of 4 families whose relatives died in Benghazi not blaming her.
But if you read the answer to the first question, you can realize how much BULLSHIT the answer is because this poor sister of Chris Stevens is placing the blame on the wrong party, Congress, when it really belongs to Obama and Clinton. Here's why.
Congress makes and passes the budget the prior year for the current year. The embassy in Libya, which is brand new since Qaddafi had just been defeated and killed by his own people that year. So the mental midgets known as the Obama and Clinton decided to open an Embassy in a country where card carrying Al Qaeda members were the average citizen and the military had been dissolved. So what's this about budget?
The correct answer to that question was, why the hell was an Embassy built in a place like Benghazi in the first place. It wasn't Congresses idea to open an Embassy. Plus, Embassies are the #1 target in the Terrorist handbook. They represent actual territory of the US, or whatever other Country they want to attack.
Keep on posting moronic interviews, Doc.
Like the way he always does... Either he does denies everything or claims it is a leftist source
Also what he does is he answers like a politician. He will reply without ever answering the query. Here is an example of that. So funny.
Most rightists live in delusions as you can see.
Delusions? No that belongs to Leftists like you, Cloud500 (not be confused with Cloudsurf.
Hillary will be charged. Just wait. And Leftists like you will complain it's political even when the amount and quality of evidence of her law breaking is overwhelming.
Leftists are known for propaganda so I never trust a Leftist source.
Also, I am not arrogant. Perhaps you should go back and read the mod's post on how to address other members?
And perhaps you're projecting your own arrogance on to me, but I won't say that out loud not to embarrass you.
But that's different. Hillary is running on the "I am a woman" platform and that's the ONLY reason why anyone should vote for her.
She can't run on her record. It's a disaster.
She can't run on her honesty. She belongs in prison because of her dishonesty and actions (keeping and using a private unsecured non-authorized email server to conduct official Confidential and Secret business) while she was Secretary of State.
She's solely running on her notoriety and she would be the first woman to be President, which would be pathetic because there are far more qualified women then her to be elected.
She's qualified for Leavenworth and that's it.
Not true. A good % already claimed to vote for her as a vote against that clown that would be a worldwide disgrace...
Cheers,
It's getting better indeed. But mostly right now the woman that raised to the top are women of steel who had to overpass layers of misogynist men.
Women are less prone to make decision based on the fact that they simply want to prove they are right and the others are wrong (except in a relationship, where strangely it's the opposite haha).
Bukowski: "the problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts while the stupid ones are full of confidence".
Women Leaders. I've never picked or voted for anyone based on gender anyway. Human beings are basically the same. Only the individual varies from each other, not whether they are male or female. There have been many great and terrible leaders. The record of bad and good ones among males and females is mostly the same. All motives are HUMAN with minor distinctions.
Trump versus Clinton. Clinton is the typical politician with all the pluses and minuses associated. Whether she's worse or better is going to be about what your priorities and political convictions lead you to think. Did she commit a crime? One thing is certain. After two years and all the efforts to find cause nothing illegal has been found, cry as you may about what you want to believe. Overall she comes off as rational and steady emotionally in how she approaches issues. Trump is a rich businessman who came from money. His father gave him a million dollar loan and title to significantly valued real estate holdings, yet his business skills have lead to 4 bankruptcy bailouts. Despite his stance against Washington politics he's used the lobbyist insider track whenever it suited him. He comes off as emotional, extreme, unstable.
Why do many support Trump???
In one analysis support for Trump comes from visceral gut reaction, not thought out policies.
.......
From the Conservative National Review
http://www.nationalreview.com/artic...pporters-principle-conservatives-triumphalism
If there is one thing this primary has taught us, it’s that much of the “true” conservative opposition to Obama and the Republican establishment was far less based in principle than it was in power — a desire to claw its way up by tearing others down. And this ambition was so deeply felt, so visceral, that it was simply presumed that any rage or frustration over Trump’s victory was based almost entirely on the notion that his rise meant his opponents’ personal eclipse, not on despair that long-advanced moral, cultural, strategic, and economic principles were now in peril.
Every political campaign requires compromise, but the extent to which Donald Trump’s “conservative” supporters abandoned one core tenet of their ideology and morality after another to advance their man — and themselves — was breathtaking.
Men and women who had demanded consistent conservatism embraced a candidate who flip-flopped by the hour. Former advocates of individual liberty cheered a man who proudly advocated rollbacks of critical constitutional liberties. Champions of limited government shrugged their shoulders at Trump’s embrace of the entitlement state and call for state-run health care. Critics who had spent years decrying the dishonesty of the Clintons and the lawlessness of Obama wrapped both arms around a shameless liar who pledged executive actions that would make even Loretta Lynch blush.
After scorning an Obama foreign policy built on a combination of hard-left ideology and hopeless naïveté, Trump’s supporters embraced a foreign policy built on a combination of bluster, insanity, and ignorance. It’s intolerable that Obama met with Iranian leaders. It’s fine that Trump is willing to meet with Kim Jong Un. Critics of Obama’s stagnant recovery shrugged their shoulders as a reality-TV star spewed threats to start trade wars and declared his willingness to default on American debt — two policies that would devastate working-class American families, Trump’s alleged core constituency.
Conservatives who expressed outrage at Democratic name-calling and incivility are proud to back a man who mocks people with disabilities, spews insults at any woman who crosses him, turns on fellow Republicans with a viciousness never seen in primary politics, and peddles bizarre conspiracy theories. Obama said that Republicans “cling” to guns and religion, and these people howled with outrage. Trump said that fellow Republicans lied their way into a deadly war, and his people were unmoved. Men and women who decried identity politics knowingly and gleefully stoked online mobs of white supremacists to threaten and intimidate Trump’s critics.
But no matter. Trump was winning, and when Trump was winning they were winning. Consequently, we learned that their much-vaunted conservatism was a mere means to an end. Virtually every character defect or ideological blind spot they condemned in others, they overlooked or even justified in Trump.
Trump versus Clinton. Clinton is the typical politician with all the pluses and minuses associated. Whether she's worse or better is going to be about what your priorities and political convictions lead you to think. Did she commit a crime? One thing is certain. After two years and all the efforts to find cause nothing illegal has been found, cry as you may about what you want to believe. Overall she comes off as rational and steady emotionally in how she approaches issues. Trump is a rich businessman who came from money. His father gave him a million dollar loan and title to significantly valued real estate holdings, yet his business skills have lead to 4 bankruptcy bailouts. Despite his stance against Washington politics he's used the lobbyist insider track whenever it suited him. He comes off as emotional, extreme, unstable.
Why do many support Trump???
In one analysis support for Trump comes from visceral gut reaction, not thought out policies.
.......
From the Conservative National Review
http://www.nationalreview.com/artic...pporters-principle-conservatives-triumphalism
If there is one thing this primary has taught us, it’s that much of the “true” conservative opposition to Obama and the Republican establishment was far less based in principle than it was in power — a desire to claw its way up by tearing others down. And this ambition was so deeply felt, so visceral, that it was simply presumed that any rage or frustration over Trump’s victory was based almost entirely on the notion that his rise meant his opponents’ personal eclipse, not on despair that long-advanced moral, cultural, strategic, and economic principles were now in peril.
Every political campaign requires compromise, but the extent to which Donald Trump’s “conservative” supporters abandoned one core tenet of their ideology and morality after another to advance their man — and themselves — was breathtaking.
Men and women who had demanded consistent conservatism embraced a candidate who flip-flopped by the hour. Former advocates of individual liberty cheered a man who proudly advocated rollbacks of critical constitutional liberties. Champions of limited government shrugged their shoulders at Trump’s embrace of the entitlement state and call for state-run health care. Critics who had spent years decrying the dishonesty of the Clintons and the lawlessness of Obama wrapped both arms around a shameless liar who pledged executive actions that would make even Loretta Lynch blush.
After scorning an Obama foreign policy built on a combination of hard-left ideology and hopeless naïveté, Trump’s supporters embraced a foreign policy built on a combination of bluster, insanity, and ignorance. It’s intolerable that Obama met with Iranian leaders. It’s fine that Trump is willing to meet with Kim Jong Un. Critics of Obama’s stagnant recovery shrugged their shoulders as a reality-TV star spewed threats to start trade wars and declared his willingness to default on American debt — two policies that would devastate working-class American families, Trump’s alleged core constituency.
Conservatives who expressed outrage at Democratic name-calling and incivility are proud to back a man who mocks people with disabilities, spews insults at any woman who crosses him, turns on fellow Republicans with a viciousness never seen in primary politics, and peddles bizarre conspiracy theories. Obama said that Republicans “cling” to guns and religion, and these people howled with outrage. Trump said that fellow Republicans lied their way into a deadly war, and his people were unmoved. Men and women who decried identity politics knowingly and gleefully stoked online mobs of white supremacists to threaten and intimidate Trump’s critics.
But no matter. Trump was winning, and when Trump was winning they were winning. Consequently, we learned that their much-vaunted conservatism was a mere means to an end. Virtually every character defect or ideological blind spot they condemned in others, they overlooked or even justified in Trump.
And so do you...you ideologue. That was a fucking sexist statement that you made about men. You are so fucked in the head you don't even realize it. You fucking Alan Alda/Phil Donahue wanna be.
Feelings....I've got feelings.....
@hungry 101
Wow! very impressed! You used 4 times the F*** word in 2 sentences. It shows how wide is your knowledge. Did you ever consider changing your handle to angry101???
Wow! very impressed! You used 4 times the F*** word in 2 sentences. It shows how wide is your knowledge. Did you ever consider changing your handle to angry101???
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