Tuesday, August 25, 2015



Donald Trump on CNN with Don Lemon after the first Republican candidates debate.  I wanted you to hear the first clip in this story in its entirety so I'm not accused of taking something out of context.  He said "she starts asking me all sorts of ridiculous questions."

In point of fact, Ms Kelly asked Mr. Trump only two direct questions during the entire debate (she did give me a chance to weigh in on another candidate's response to a question but that wasn't a question she posed to him).  Here they are, from a debate transcript:



KELLY: Mr. Trump, one of the things people love about you is you speak your mind and you don’t use a politician’s filter. However, that is not without its downsides, in particular, when it comes to women.
You’ve called women you don’t like “fat pigs, dogs, slobs, and disgusting animals.”
(LAUGHTER)
Your Twitter account…
TRUMP: Only Rosie O’Donnell.
(LAUGHTER)
KELLY: No, it wasn’t.
(APPLAUSE)
Your Twitter account…
(APPLAUSE)
TRUMP: Thank you.
KELLY: For the record, it was well beyond Rosie O’Donnell.
TRUMP: Yes, I’m sure it was.
KELLY: Your Twitter account has several disparaging comments about women’s looks. You once told a contestant on Celebrity Apprentice it would be a pretty picture to see her on her knees. Does that sound to you like the temperament of a man we should elect as president, and how will you answer the charge from Hillary Clinton, who was likely to be the Democratic nominee, that you are part of the war on women?



KELLY: Mr. Trump, in 1999, you said you were, quote, “very pro- choice.” Even supporting partial-birth abortion. You favored an assault weapons ban as well. In 2004, you said in most cases you identified as a Democrat. Even in this campaign, your critics say you often sound more like a Democrat than a Republican, calling several of your opponents on the stage things like clowns and puppets. When did you actually become a Republican?

 Neither of those questions is ridiculous.  Nor were they inappropriate.  They were tough questions and a professional politician wouldn't have been bothered by them.  But Trump isn't a professional politician.  He's a egomaniacal megalomaniac who refuses to accept responsibility for the things he says about anyone or anything.  Everything is someone else's fault.  He loves what people do and extols their virtues until the moment that they do something he doesn't like.  Then he becomes fanatical about attacking them.  Ms Kelly comes back from a vacation and he starts attacking her again on Twitter on her first night back at work.

That's a lot of things, but it isn't presidential.  The thing that scares me the most about Donald Trump isn't that he's totally unqualified to lead a nation, nor is it that he has no real proposals to do what he says he can do.  What scares me is that this is the kind of man whose ego is so fragile that he might push the button to launch nuclear weapons simply because the leader of another nation really pissed him off.  President's can't let their egos rule their decision making.

Donald Trump is dangerous.  #DumpTrump