The latest Donald Trump garbage fire: Crudely insulting Caroline Kennedy and Bernie Sanders
...The GOP frontrunner hadn’t had a new controversy over his attacks on women in a few days. So in his first speech since the debate, at a Michigan Lincoln Day event, he smacked down Caroline Kennedy, the beloved daughter of the late President Kennedy who is now the ambassador to Japan. Earlier, he suggested Sen. Bernie Sanders should have smacked down the female Black Lives matters activist who blocked his speech in Seattle last weekend....
“We use Caroline Kennedy in Japan. She couldn’t even believe she got the job. They said ‘Would you like the job?’; she said ‘Really?’ — but my daughter Ivanka likes her, so she has to be a good person.”
But details about whether Kennedy asked for the job or had it handed to her don’t matter to Trump; the point is to single out a woman and deride her as unqualified, when less than a third of U.S. ambassadors today are women. The truth is, wealth and connections have always played a huge role in the selection of ambassadors, in both parties. He also insists she’s doing a bad job as trade negotiator with Japan – but that’s not her job at all. Not that we expect Trump to master the details of U.S. foreign service....
Tougher still was hearing Trump insult Sen. Bernie Sanders’ manhood, because Sanders turned over his microphone to female Black Lives Matter protesters in Seattle last weekend. “I thought that was disgusting. That showed such weakness, the way he was taken away by two young women,” Trump said. “That will never happen with me. I don’t know if I’ll do the fighting myself, or if other people will, but that was a disgrace.”
So he might “fight” the women from Black Lives Matter himself? Trump has the bearings of a physical coward, who lets his money and his mouth fight his battles, so I don’t expect to see that. But again, he’s telling his insecure male followers about the way he’d tame women – particularly black women – if they make him president...
via Salon:
http://www.salon.com/2015/08/12/the_latest_donald_trump_garbage_fire_crudely_insulting_caroline_kennedy_and_bernie_sanders/
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