So our boy Donald Trump finally killed his campaign. And ingeniously enough, he did it eleven years ago. But for those who don’t know yet, Donald was talking to Billy Bush, the former Access Hollywood host in 2005 and not realizing a mic was hot, said some nasty stuff about women. Again. But worse. A lot worse.
“I don’t even wait.” Trump says. “And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything — grab them by the p—-.”
In a statement shortly after the video’s release, Trump dismisses its importance.
“This was locker room banter, a private conversation that took place many years ago,” the GOP presidential nominee says. “Bill Clinton has said far worse to me on the golf course — not even close. I apologize if anyone was offended.”
AND here’s the problem. Trump said a lot more than I’ve quoted here. It’s all in the stories and there’s audio online. I don’t think the issue is “if anyone was offended”. Trump is not offending women, this goes far beyond that. Trump’s comments here are likely making women physically sick. There’s something viscerally horrible about what he is saying here, and how casually he is saying it. These words put him in a dark and frightening category. He sounds predatory. He sounds devoid of restraint, of any kind.
These are the words that will guarantee women come out in mass against him. There isn’t a woman in the world who hasn’t met a man like Trump. These women can be conservative, liberal, young, old, rich, poor, white, black, Latino, Asian, it doesn’t matter what kind of women they are, all have met this kind of man. And they all hate him.
So, I’m going to call it. Time of death for the Trump campaign. October 7 at 7:03 PM EST, which is when the Washington Post uploaded the story.
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You do know that Trump has had several rape allegations , one of them coming from a woman who says he raped her when she was 13. Google it. Trump was friends with a man that was actually notorious for being with underage girls and Trump has made statements about this man that were rather supportive of him. Also google what Trump has said about a 12 year old Paris Hilton. You don’t really believe that Trump only degrades and assulats women with his words do you? Although that should be reason enough alone to call him out. And nothing… Read more »
No, this doesn’t scare me and it doesn’t make me sick. It’s crude talk, but men have talked like this to each other for as long as I can remember telling their stories of sex. I’ve overheard men talk like this many times. These comments were said bu Trump, in private to a friend some years ago. People change and their lives change
LOL! Oh please, when single men get together, especially men that have easy access to lots of beautiful women, they talk to each other about their encounters. Most women have overheard these conversations between men. Trump made those comments to a friend some years ago and is going in a different direction now, so who cares?
sure, some men do talk like this. But a lot of men don’t. Just like some women put on a good face in public but then also can talk degradingly about men behind closed doors. You tell me which people men and women alike respect more? The ones that show respect for each other no matter if someone’s watching or not, or the ones that believe degrading the other gender in intimate settings is just dandy? Your comments are just as belittling to men as they are to women. And one has to wonder how you would feel if a… Read more »
Why would anyone be surprised by this? This is a man and I use the term “man” very loosely who said that “he could shoot someone and nothing would happen to him”.
It’s so sad and beyond the imagination that he is one of our presidential nominee’s. What has become of our culture and nation?