Donald Trump asks confused Pittsburgh crowd, ‘How’s Joe Paterno?’

[Botany]

Source: Fox

PITTSBURGH -- Donald Trump's question about Joe Paterno left people baffled.

Speaking to a crowd of supporters in Pittsburgh on Wednesday, Trump asked about Joe Paterno and said, "How's Joe Paterno? We gonna bring that back?"

Paterno died in 2012.

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Others pointed out that Trump mentioned Paterno, the former Penn State coach, in Pittsburgh: the home of the University of Pittsburgh.



Read more: http://fox59.com/2016/04/14/donald-trump-asks-confused-pittsburgh-crowd-hows-joe-paterno/

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ATTN Donald Trump: Paterno is dead, he was fired from PSU, and PSU took down
Paterno's statue because he covered up for a child molester to protect his football
program.

[exboyfil]

1. Among Trump's amazing abilities

Necromancy.

[yuiyoshida]

4. maybe Trump will raise the dead ...

some of his followers probably think so....

[NCjack]

17. Maybe Joe Paterno will vote for Trump in this election. It's possible. /nt

[DaveT]

67. Early and often.

Nt

[hueymahl]

19. That gives him too much credit

Necrophilia, I could believe.

[woodsprite]

27. That would be Ted Cruz. n/t

[LiberalEsto]

2. If only

Drumpf would open mouth, insert foot. And keep it there.

[kwassa]

13. actually, Trump does do that daily, with little negative effect ....

His supporters don't care about accuracy.

[sarge43]

33. If he would jam the other foot in there at the same time,

that's entertainment.

[kwassa]

34. or he could stick the other foot in another, um, orifice.

That's great entertainment!

[sarge43]

39. Must see TV.

[olddad56]

54. he already has his head in that other orifice.

[kwassa]

66. Which makes the act of sticking the foot in the mouth ..

Of the head stuck in that orifice a difficult act to accomplish, but interesting to visualize.

[bullsnarfle]

50. I've been using this one for months:

"How do you break Donald Trump's foot?"

answer:

"Punch him in the mouth."

[blm]

3. Hair for brains. Or…to be more accurate

hairSPRAY for brains.

[Duppers]

36. Made me laugh...out loud.

"Hair for brains."

Excellent.

[blm]

46. Must credit my ex for that. He used to call

Mitch Glazer that when they were writing together.

Google images for Mitch and you'll understand.

http://www.feelgoodfilmblog.com/2014/12/02/scrooged/

[Duppers]

55. I see what ya mean. nt

[blm]

57. ; )

.

[awoke_in_2003]

72. Even his brain is a bad comb over. nt

[Buzz Clik]

5. The man has lost his way. I really think something is wrong with him.

[2naSalit]

21. This is the sort of thing you see

when an absolute narcissist and sel-aggrandizing asshole goes into meltdown from not getting their way.

[Auggie]

29. It underscores that he's not just out-of-touch but also doesn't care ...

I expect his hard-line supporters are going to dump him if this continues. No one wants to be associated with a dunce of this proportion.

[3catwoman3]

61. I work in pediatrics. Trump reminds me...

...of a 2 yr old who has been told he can't have cookies before dinner.

[klook]

42. He brags about sleeping 4 hours a night

That plus narcissism, hubris, sociopathy, and an army of sycophants gives you this result. He's like the product of a very sick psychological experiment.

[Buzz Clik]

43. Sleep deprivation might explain it, but he might sleep 16 hours a night. He's a compulsive liar.

I totally agree with the body of your response.

[randr]

6. Somewhere in the Dons' bubble

Paterno is still a hero.

[Kelvin Mace]

7. Trump will now prove

that you can praise people who protect child molesters, and the majority of conservatives will still vote for you.

[hobbit709]

8. He's dead, Jack.

[Person 2713]

9. Trump rightly assumes his voters would want the statue back up because no pc free dumb

And all colleges look alike to them

[Sunlei]

10. Republicans built that Republican frontrunner

[independentpiney]

11. That's just bizarre on so many levels you would think he'd be unelectable

But so were many of shrubs statements, and we had to endure 8 years of that shit.

[watoos]

12. Paterno took the fall

and I don't want to go OT with this thread, but Paterno died before he could defend himself which made him the perfect scapegoat. People at Penn State certainly covered up for Sandusky and they are on trial for it.

I don't expect Trump to do any rallies in Happy Valley.

[Botany]

14. Paterno was told about Sandusky's actions and covered up his crimes.

Even after Paterno and others had been told of Sandusky's actions they allowed
Sandusky to go on a bowl trip w/the team and bring a young boy too.


http://www.philly.com/philly/news/special_packages/162218515.html

[Number9Dream]

23. Most reports Freeh produced in his post-FBI career have been criticized, if not totally refuted

"The Freeh investigative group didn't interview a single person who was implicated except for Graham Spanier after the report had already been written; that several parts of the report have been proven to be objectively inaccurate; that the Freeh investigators actually colluded with the NCAA throughout the entire independent ”investigation; and that the report has come under so much criticism that the university president, who does not have a Penn State degree and was not at Penn State when this case blew up, is conducting a review of the entire report."

"You know that virtually every report Freeh has produced in his post-FBI career has been criticized, if not totally refuted. Oh, speaking of the FBI, surely you know that Freeh is universally considered one of the worst directors in the history of the Bureau. Freeh was eventually forced to resign from the FBI."

http://onwardstate.com/2015/01/20/an-open-letter-to-keith-olbermann/

Read the whole letter at link.

[Botany]

25. Forget the Freeh report

A former QB for PSU who was working as an assistant coach told Paterno to his face that
he saw Sandusky raping a boy in the team's showers. After Paterno was told about this
Sandusky's keys to the the facilities were taken away from him.

[Trajan]

28. Ah ... A Sandusky supporter ...

It's been quite a while ...

Good luck with that ...

[Number9Dream]

71. Brilliant refutation of Mr. Horne's op-ed (Sarcasm)

That was a brilliant point by point refutation of Mr. Horne's letter (Sarcasm). It seems that you were too lazy to either read the letter or attempt an intelligent rebuttal regarding a complex situation. Instead, you went directly to vile name-calling. Only the anonymity of the internet allows a gutless coward to call a complete stranger a supporter of child molestation.

[Trajan]

73. I smell a rat ...

You want my full name? ... I'll be glad to offer it if you demand it ...

I don't want to spend a single solitary SECOND bothering with this apologist nonsense ...

You can go to ... Heaven ... For all I care ...

[LynneSin]

49. Happy Valley would be perfect for Donald Trump

I grew up on the outskirts of Happy Valley and the people that live in that region are rabid republicans, many who are buying into the shit that Trump is spewing.

Sure bringing up Paterno might not be the highlight of Trump's rally in Happy Valley. But if Trump can stick with his regular racist, sexist, homophobic speech he'll be a huge hit.

Of course we are talking about the regular population of people who live in Happy Valley and not the students that attend PSU.

[maddiemom]

58. Yeah, and he was getting pretty old for a major coach, when it all started.

Pushing seventy, I believe, and mid-eighties when he finally was fired (and died shortly thereafter). I'm not a Penn State grad, but was married to one through the Paterno idolatry era, and attended many games during those years. The reverence given the man for so many years seemed ridiculous for this on and off football fan, depending on the team or if I were dating a player ( I dated a Jr. H.S. coach once, in fact). Nonetheless, I felt the way "JoePa" was treated over this was a total tragedy. Overreaction at its worst, considering Paterno did much to earn respect compared to most other major college coaches. And Yeah, Trump's Pittsburgh speech was unbelievable considering the Pitt/Penn State rivalry for decades.

[radicalliberal]

74. As usual, the image of an idolized coach or football program --

-- is more important than the victims. The reaction of many of the Penn State fans was despicable. Just to give a single example: One of Sandusky's victims was outed against his wishes at the high school he was attending at the time. The grandmother of one of the Penn State football players walked up to the mother of the victim and said, "Now my grandson's team is going to lose, and it's all your son's fault!" The victim was a senior, but he had to drop out of school before he could graduate because he was being bullied relentlessly by classmates who blamed him for the firing of Paterno. (I guess Sandusky had nothing to do with it.) In the meantime, Franco Harris said he was going to bring a life-sized cardboard image of Paterno to the next Penn State game to protest Paterno's firing. Did it ever occur to him that he could have helped the bullied victim greatly by addressing the student body in an auditorium assembly to leave the bulled victim alone? I guess not.

Watch out, rape victims. When your perpetrator has been a player(s) or a coach, most of the time you won't get any justice. You're likely to be persecuted by some, if not many, of the fans -- namely, those who have created a rape culture for their sport.

[sofa king]

15. Wow.

I remember when George W. Bush was saying inexplicable and embarrassing things like this, and I remember confidently saying to a friend on the other side of the couch, "there is no way that a guy this stupid can be President."

That year I was making four times what I make now, had full health insurance coverage and a retirement plan. Who's the stupid one, now?

[muriel_volestrangler]

16. What would "we gonna bring that back?" mean, anyway?

Ignoring the multiple faux pas (Paterno is dead, he covered up paedophilia, he was at Penn State, not Pitt), what would "we gonna bring that back?" even mean for someone popular in the city he was talking in?

Unless he was saying "let's have a two minute hate about Paterno". Which I wouldn't put past Trump ...

[frylock]

52. That was my read.

A dig at Penn St.

[maddiemom]

59. Well, Trump's "people" did try to spin it that way, later.

But what does most of what Trump says mean, anyway?

[ailsagirl]

18. .....

[bemildred]

20. That's funny. nt

[FSogol]

22. Maybe he should consider Joe Paterno for VP! That'll show the Rince Prebuis who's really in charge.

[Initech]

24. OMG, this is an epic fail on multiple levels. I love it.

[forest444]

26. Would that this had happened on October 14, rather than March 14.

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Especially because rumor has it that the Donald is overly fond of underage derrière himself.

http://gawker.com/here-is-pedophile-billionaire-jeffrey-epsteins-little-b-1681383992

[jtuck004]

30. The real estate swindler is calling for Child Molester Zombies. Great. n/t

[me b zola]

31. I'm beginning to think that Trump and Palin are the same person

[Duppers]

44. LoL!

Good one. There's truth there...sharing brains perhaps.

[LynneSin]

48. Should we ask them for their birth certificates when they need to use the public restrooms?

[skypilot]

32. It's probably better that...

...he made this gaffe in Pittsburgh. It would probably have gone over a whole lot worse if he'd actually made it in State College, PA.

[chknltl]

35. Good thing Trump hasn't gone to Spain!

Francisco Franco is still dead too!

[L. Coyote]

37. He also wants Ronald Reagan to speak at the convention. They share a dementia issue ...

Another sign of trump's incipient Alzheimer's, sadly for him. We should not make fun of another person's health problems, but when we are threatened with another demented leader, we must do something before it is too late.

I'm not sure Trump's wife could handle the daily astrology needs.

[Orrex]

38. Why would he ask Pitt about Penn State?

That's not even tone-deaf; it's flat-out stupid.

[blue neen]

40. Ain't that the truth?

[Spitfire of ATJ]

41. Guess Trump has to find a new source for his sad passions.

[Duppers]

45. Omnoodles!! That should hurt his poll nos.

Even the dimwits know Paterno's history.


Had to call my hubs to tell him this one...gees he laughed so hard I had to hold the phone away from my ear.

[LynneSin]

47. Idiot obviously isn't aware that Pittsburgh area folks aren't the biggest Penn State fans

I found that Penn State craziness is the strongest in between Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. There use to be a huge UPitt/Penn State rivalry in football but when PSU went to the Big 10 that kinda died out a bit.

Although people in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia follow college sports (hey wasn't that a Philly team that just won the NCAA Men's Baskeball Tournament!), I've always found that the big cities are huge fan of their professional sports. Penn State is huge for all that space in between Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. I grew up an hour outside of Penn State Main campus and those people were RABID for Penn State sports and especially Joe Paterno and his football team. I moved to the Philly Burbs and found that people were more rabid for Philly pro-sports teams.

[frylock]

51. This was a dig at Penn St

[Fuddnik]

53. At least he didn't ask them about the Browns.

He's probably saving the Steelers for the convention in Cleveland.

[catbyte]

56. ...

What a dumbass.

[LibDemAlways]

60. I think he has no idea what goes on beyond the

bubble he lives in. He vaguely knows that Joe Paterno was the Penn State coach. He has no idea that Penn State isn't in Pittsburgh. He never heard of the Sandusky scandal. He doesn't know Paterno died. I honestly think he was trying to connect with the crowd by referencing Paterno and alluding to a football championship. This is a guy who only knows money, his buildings, and golf. When he ventures beyond one of those topics, he's out of his element.

[tclambert]

62. Oh, great, now Trump's supporters are gonna try to raise a Joe Paterno statue on the Pitt campus.

I'm SO confused!

[MrScorpio]

63. I'm still waiting for Trump to eat a baby while screwing a llama in the middle of Times Square

Or is that eating a llama while screwing a baby? Never mind.

Either way, this Cheeto tinted clown's moronic half wit fans will allow him to get away with anything.

[Botany]

64. Trump: I could 'shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose voters'

http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/23/politics/donald-trump-shoot-somebody-support/

But in this case he was messing w/football fans and even if they support Drumpf
if they are fans of Pitt then they might not be so forgiving of Donald this time.

[Algernon Moncrieff]

65. I suspect he was half listening to a briefing about what gets conservatives fired up in Pennsylvania

There is a subset of conservative Pennsylvanians that devoutly, fervently believe the following:

1) Joe Paterno was a saint and he knew nothing about what Sandusky was really doing
2) The Freeh report is filled with half-truths and outright lies
3) ESPN led the liberal media in a witchhunt against JoePa
4) Mike McQueary is a shameful opportunist
5) The removal of Paterno's statue from Penn State was a travesty of the highest order.

Trump half listened to some explanation of this, and translated it to "How's Joe Paterno? We gonna bring that back?"

[John1956PA]

76. Great explanation (n/t)

[MADem]

68. Did they all yell "DEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" back at him???? nt

[joedogs]

69. LMAO

I do believe the Donald is confused as usual and was thinking of Joe the Plummer from Sara Palin and John McCain fiasco who also turn out to be a fraud but know one corrected his dumb ass and i do believe The Donald isn't following the 6 p's of business and politics [ proper planning prevents piss poor performance ]

[SpankMe]

70. Eary onset dementia. n/t

[Thespian2]

75. the EGO plods onward...

Found this definition of Donald Trump in my electronic dictionary:

Narcissistic personality disorder (DJT) is a personality disorder in which a person is excessively preoccupied with personal adequacy, power, prestige and vanity, mentally unable to see the destructive damage they are causing to themselves and mostly others.

There is no bottom to the cesspool which is DJT's brain...

[pasto76]

77. OH SHIT!

LAWLZ!

[sofa king]

78. I just realized...

I just realized that you use the same basic headline with any question Donald Trump asks in public.

"Donald Trump asks confused (Place Name) crowd, &quot Anything)?"