Has the Trump blood comment crossed the line? [W: 373]

[haymarket]

Apparently the Donald is blaming Meagan Kelly's menstrual cycle for tough questions that bruised him in the GOP debate on Thursday night.

2016 Republican debate: Donald Trump's Megyn Kelly war - POLITICO

Donald Trump is once again pushing the limit, bringing Megyn Kelly’s anatomy into a feud that had already opened him to charges of sexism — and the risk of losing support among the Fox News anchor’s rabid following.
After a day of escalating hostility, Trump took his attacks on Kelly to the next level on Friday night, apparently insinuating that the moderator had been menstruating when she questioned him during Thursday’s first Republican debate.
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“You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her — wherever,” he told anchor Don Lemon during an appearance on CNN.
Unlike undocumented immigrants, John McCain or Rosie O’Donnell, the Fox News anchor enjoys a huge following among the network’s viewers, who happen to make up the core of the Republican primary electorate. So picking a fight with Kelly — as Trump did when he chided her during a tough debate question about insults he’s lobbed at women, dissed her in the spin room, and tweeted his complaints about her — carries risks that Trump’s other feuds do not.
So does making such a gendered attack on a journalist at a time when his party is battling the perception that it’s waging a “war on women.”

Has Trump gone over the line of common decency here or will his supporters on the right come up with excuses and rationalizations for this one like they have for the 'on your knees' comment pretending it was not an oral sex reference?

Just how far can this buffoon go exercising bad taste and poor judgment to get attention and far right votes?

 

[reinoe]

Apparently the Donald is blaming Meagan Kelly's menstrual cycle for tough questions that bruised him in the GOP debate on Thursday night.

2016 Republican debate: Donald Trump's Megyn Kelly war - POLITICO



Has Trump gone over the line of common decency here or will his supporters on the right come up with excuses and rationalizations for this one like they have for the 'on your knees' comment pretending it was not an oral sex reference?

Just how far can this buffoon go exercising bad taste and poor judgment to get attention and far right votes?

Megyn Kelly is a bimbo, or at least she plays one on t.v.

 

[Crosscheck]

If Trump hadn't been in the debate the tv viewing population would have been greatly decreased.

He is like The Iron Shiek of the WWF of yesteryears. Everybody hated him and yet filled the arenas in hopes of seeing his butt get kicked. Trump had the audacity to mock one who spent 6 years as a POW.
It is all a show.

Fox's GOP debate had record 24 million viewers

Fox's GOP debate had record 24 million viewers - Aug. 7, 2015

 

[Superfly]

Apparently the Donald is blaming Meagan Kelly's menstrual cycle for tough questions that bruised him in the GOP debate on Thursday night.

2016 Republican debate: Donald Trump's Megyn Kelly war - POLITICO



Has Trump gone over the line of common decency here or will his supporters on the right come up with excuses and rationalizations for this one like they have for the 'on your knees' comment pretending it was not an oral sex reference?

Just how far can this buffoon go exercising bad taste and poor judgment to get attention and far right votes?

I told my husband last night that the only way the people on the far, far right who are following him will stop following him is if he insults religion or guns. They are too hardcore for any other reason. Everything he has said has been "A-OK" thus far. But let him insult religion or guns, and he's done for.

 

[OrphanSlug]

It very well may have backfired, there is an invite that has been taken back now.

I am not saying the one "disinvite" is everything, but it would be foolish to suggest being told to not come to an event he was to give a keynote speech at is nothing either. It is clear that Trump likes the spotlight, and says things that fuel a potential base into the early poll leads. That said, going after Megyn Kelly was not very bright. Like her or hate her for whatever reason, the fact is she speaks to a fair number of Republicans on a regular basis. You may not agree with her but she has a following. With that crowd her opinion carries weight.

I have no choice but to offer that Trump deciding on airing a personal level conflict while campaigning was not bright at all.

Now if you ladies and gents want to have a debate on Megan Kelly we can do that, but it takes us further away from the intention of what it likely to happen if Trump turns his attention on the one platform to speak to potential supporters... FoxNews and their viewers. Moreover, all it will take is the brand of being sexist and it will no longer matter if Trump secures the far right and takes the nomination *or* he splits the party running by running as an Independent. Liberals and a much larger audience will crucify him as arrogant, sexists, racist, belligerent, etc.

And that will hand the election gift-wrapped to the opposition. Everyone in this thread must know this...

That remark crossed the line, said RedState.com editor Erick Erickson. He disinvited Trump from the RedState Gathering, a conservative event featuring GOP presidential hopefuls this weekend in Atlanta. Trump was scheduled to give the keynote speech Saturday night.

"I have tried to give a great deal of latitude to Donald Trump in his run for the presidency," Erickson wrote.

"He is not a professional politician and is known for being a blunt talker. He connects with so much of the anger in the Republican base and is not afraid to be outspoken on a lot of issues. But there are even lines blunt talkers and unprofessional politicians should not cross. Decency is one of those lines.

Donald Trump: Megyn Kelly had 'blood coming out of her wherever' - CNNPolitics.com

 

[CMPancake]

"Megan Kelly questioned me on my misogynistic comments because she was on the rag.” ~ Donald Trump most likely.

 

[ocean515]

Apparently the Donald is blaming Meagan Kelly's menstrual cycle for tough questions that bruised him in the GOP debate on Thursday night.

2016 Republican debate: Donald Trump's Megyn Kelly war - POLITICO



Has Trump gone over the line of common decency here or will his supporters on the right come up with excuses and rationalizations for this one like they have for the 'on your knees' comment pretending it was not an oral sex reference?

Just how far can this buffoon go exercising bad taste and poor judgment to get attention and far right votes?

I guess the better question is what statements of Trumps will become the latest fodder for Progressives to obsess over? Or is it just fear that in your face truth is too hard to deal with?

 

[SenorXm/Sirius]

This guy Erickson(who in the past has made comments about women which also crossed the line) and other conservatives now have a problem with Trump because he attacked a conservative woman reporter on Fox. But in the past when Trump, and other conservatives made awful comments about women the GOP, RNC, etc. had no problem with those comments.

Any women who votes GOP really, really isn't paying attention to what the hell is going on in the GOP nowadays.

 

[Fletch]

Apparently the Donald is blaming Meagan Kelly's menstrual cycle for tough questions that bruised him in the GOP debate on Thursday night.

2016 Republican debate: Donald Trump's Megyn Kelly war - POLITICO



Has Trump gone over the line of common decency here or will his supporters on the right come up with excuses and rationalizations for this one like they have for the 'on your knees' comment pretending it was not an oral sex reference?

Just how far can this buffoon go exercising bad taste and poor judgment to get attention and far right votes?

I don't find the comment itself all that offensive. I mean, I have heard a variation of that sort of comment thousands of times from both men and women. What it really exposes is how petty the man is and how undisciplined he is, what a bully he is and how vindictive he is. None of which are qualities anyone should want in a president.

 

[haymarket]

I don't find the comment itself all that offensive. I mean, I have heard a variation of that sort of comment thousands of times from both men and women. What it really exposes is how petty the man is and how undisciplined he is, what a bully he is and how vindictive he is. None of which are qualities anyone should want in a president.

While I was offended at the remark, you made some good points bout him being undisciplined and a bully and vindictive. Let combine your insight with the observation by Carly Florin on Thursday that Trump has conveniently reversed his positions on several major issues including health care and abortion - and may be a man without any real principles. Do we want that combination in the White House controlling such massive power?

 

[Excon]

Apparently the Donald is blaming Meagan Kelly's menstrual cycle for tough questions that bruised him in the GOP debate on Thursday night.

2016 Republican debate: Donald Trump's Megyn Kelly war - POLITICO

Has Trump gone over the line of common decency here or will his supporters on the right come up with excuses and rationalizations for this one like they have for the 'on your knees' comment pretending it was not an oral sex reference?

Just how far can this buffoon go exercising bad taste and poor judgment to get attention and far right votes?

Your whole post is an exercise in dishonesty.
His appeal is not just to those that you claim are far right, even Democrats support him.

You assume his blood comment means something that is just might not and then compound that with saying his "knees" comment was an oral sex reference to back up your assumption when it wasn't.

For starters you might want to familiarize yourself with the way the man speaks. It was nothing more than him loosing his train of thought and moving on to the next thought.
Then you might want to familiarize yourself with what he actually said in regards to the Knees comment, it is obvious he was trying to make a funny retort, and then familiarize yourself with what the woman felt he meant by it.

Knees comment.

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The woman's take on it.

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Will this hurt him? It very well may if folks disengage from rational thought like your assumptions do, which seems to be a prevalent feature amongst the extreme.

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I told my husband last night that the only way the people on the far, far right who are following him will stop following him is if he insults religion or guns. They are too hardcore for any other reason. Everything he has said has been "A-OK" thus far. But let him insult religion or guns, and he's done for.

This has nothing to do with the far right. Even Democrats support Trump.

 

[ocean515]

This guy Erickson(who in the past has made comments about women which also crossed the line) and other conservatives now have a problem with Trump because he attacked a conservative woman reporter on Fox. But in the past when Trump, and other conservatives made awful comments about women the GOP, RNC, etc. had no problem with those comments.

Any women who votes GOP really, really isn't paying attention to what the hell is going on in the GOP nowadays.

LOL.

Oh, I'd suggest women who vote GOP know exactly what is going on. It's probably not helpful to imply 1/3rd of women who identify with a party affiliation don't know what they are doing.

 

[Superfly]

This guy Erickson(who in the past has made comments about women which also crossed the line) and other conservatives now have a problem with Trump because he attacked a conservative woman reporter on Fox. But in the past when Trump, and other conservatives made awful comments about women the GOP, RNC, etc. had no problem with those comments.

Any women who votes GOP really, really isn't paying attention to what the hell is going on in the GOP nowadays.

Erika Hill tried to corner him into saying that he felt like what Trump said was wrong, and he just wouldn't do it. She asked him a couple of times, in a couple of different ways, and he just wouldn't get on board with saying what he said was wrong. The closest that he got was saying that Trump was running for President, and in doing so, people should monitor what they say.

What you have said makes so much sense as to why he wouldn't go on the record against Trump's remarks.

 

[rhinefire]

More than Trump so putting him aside why do you think he is the darling of the media and so popular? What does it say about Americans opinions about politicians??

 

[polgara]

LOL.

Oh, I'd suggest women who vote GOP know exactly what is going on. It's probably not helpful to imply 1/3rd of women who identify with a party affiliation don't know what they are doing.

Greetings, ocean515. :2wave:

:agree: Women usually know better than men do, since women are generally more emotional and worry more. It's not women who are starting wars all over the planet, playing "one-upman-ship" because of ego.

 

[haymarket]

Your whole post is an exercise in dishonesty.
His appeal is not just to those that you claim are far right, even Democrats support him.

You assume his blood comment means something that is just might not and then compound that with saying his "knees" comment was an oral sex reference to back up your assumption when it wasn't.

For starters you might want to familiarize yourself with the way the man speaks. It was nothing more than him loosing his train of thought and moving on to the next thought.
Then you might want to familiarize yourself with what he actually said in regards to the Knees comment, it is obvious he was trying to make a funny retort, and then familiarize yourself with what the woman felt he meant by it.

Will this hurt him? It very well may if folks disengage from rational thought like your assumptions do, which seems to be a prevalent feature amongst the extreme.

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This has nothing to do with the far right. Even Democrats support Trump.

Wonderful post proving that denial is not just a river in Egypt. I strongly support your desire to follow the advice of Tammy Wynette and STAND BY YOUR MAN.

 

[Excon]

Wonderful post proving that denial is not just a river in Egypt. I strongly support your desire to follow the advice of Tammy Wynette and STAND BY YOUR MAN.

Your post is what shows the ignorance of the common man jumping to conclusions.

 

[SenorXm/Sirius]

While I was offended at the remark, you made some good points bout him being undisciplined and a bully and vindictive. Let combine your insight with the observation by Carly Florin on Thursday that Trump has conveniently reversed his positions on several major issues including health care and abortion - and may be a man without any real principles. Do we want that combination in the White House controlling such massive power?

There's many reasons Trump will not, or should not be in politics, let alone president. But 1 of the biggest reasons is he is very thin skinned. He can not let any criticism of him go, every time he has to respond, he has to get even, he is very childish.

Every politician is criticized, even great presidents like Lincoln and FDR were often criticized. Politicians have to be thick-skinned. Trump has to 1 up everyone, he has to always dominate others. Which causes him to be mean and vindictive. We don't want someone like that with his finger on the nuclear button.

 

[rocket88]

I guess the better question is what statements of Trumps will become the latest fodder for Progressives to obsess over? Or is it just fear that in your face truth is too hard to deal with?

Actually I think it will be fun to see Which con hero wins. Can you say mean things about Fox if you're Trump?

Your pathetic attempt to make it about the left is transparent. This is a right on right fight. All you guys here.

 

[haymarket]

Your post is what shows the ignorance of the common man jumping to conclusions as you have.

Insulting me does not remedy the problem Trump has nor does it speak to the issue at hand - this IS NOT ABOUT ME.

I absolutely love it when I predict what the reaction of the apologists on the far right will be and then you do exactly what I predicted. Like Jackie Gleason used to proclaim before exiting the stage.... "how sweet it is!!!"

 

[Fletch]

There's many reasons Trump will not, or should not be in politics, let alone president. But 1 of the biggest reasons is he is very thin skinned. He can not let any criticism of him go, every time he has to respond, he has to get even, he is very childish.

Every politician is criticized, even great presidents like Lincoln and FDR were often criticized. Politicians have to be thick-skinned. Trump has to 1 up everyone, he has to always dominate others. Which causes him to be mean and vindictive. We don't want someone like that with his finger on the nuclear button.

And his responses are childish. Calling people stupid, or fat, or losers are the types of retorts thrown around by first graders, not presidential candidates.

 

[ocean515]

Greetings, ocean515. :2wave:

:agree: Women usually know better than men do, since women are generally more emotional and worry more. It's not women who are starting wars all over the planet, playing "one-upman-ship" because of ego.

Hi Polgara :2wave:

I think it's safe to say ego certainly has a better home in the minds and actions of men than in women. I suppose there is a genetic component that men are designed to protect the territory and take on "enemies", which requires bravado and sabre rattling, while women are more focused on stability and safety on the home front.

I think what is getting Trump headlines is his propensity to say what is on his mind, rather then through the filter of handlers and focus groups. It shouldn't be lost on candidates that people are desperate to support politicians unafraid to speak their minds. Witness the rise of Christy when his so called "abrasive" New Jersey attitude began to make headlines.

For me, I think Trumps "I Don't Have Time To Be P.C., Neither Does This Country" line was great.

 

[rocket88]

There's many reasons Trump will not, or should not be in politics, let alone president. But 1 of the biggest reasons is he is very thin skinned. He can not let any criticism of him go, every time he has to respond, he has to get even, he is very childish.

Every politician is criticized, even great presidents like Lincoln and FDR were often criticized. Politicians have to be thick-skinned. Trump has to 1 up everyone, he has to always dominate others. Which causes him to be mean and vindictive. We don't want someone like that with his finger on the nuclear button.

I think that it's very bad when he can't even get past friendly media.

 

[SenorXm/Sirius]

Actually I think it will be fun to see Which con hero wins. Can you say mean things about Fox if you're Trump?

Your pathetic attempt to make it about the left is transparent. This is a right on right fight. All you guys here.

Over the past few weeks many conservatives have been trying to blame Trump's publicity and popularity on the Dems, and the 'liberal' media. But as you said this is all a right on right fight. The GOP helped create the monster that is Trump, now THEY can't control him. This has nothing to do with the left or the Dems.

 

[haymarket]

I think that it's very bad when he can't even get past friendly media.

Yesterday, right wing radio shock jock Mark Levin ranted and railed for his entire first hour how the Fox News liberal media was out to get Trump. Amazing. Truly amazing!!!!