Three days after the debate Trump and his campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, continue to whine about everything under the sun as it relates to the debate. The microphone wasn’t right, maybe a conspiracy there, Lester Holt “was great” but then again he wasn’t. It is enough to give one victimhood whiplash.
“Donald Trump, the sore loser”
The two issues with the most incessant and long-lasting whining from Team Trump are Hillary’s “not nice” ads against Trump, and they continue to smear Alicia Machado, Miss Universe who is now a voting US citizen, with nasty innuendo and attacks.
As a result of the debate aftermath Donald Trump looks more like a sniffling whiner playing the “oh, woe is me” victim card than a decisive leader who can be trusted to stand up to international dictators and terrorists.
It started when Trump went on Fox & Friends the day after the debate to double down on his shameful misogynistic and sexist remarks about Machado:
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“That person was a Miss Universe person. And she was the worst we ever had. The worst, the absolute worst. She was impossible. [...]
She was the winner and she gained a massive amount of weight. It was a real problem.”
Trump showed less restraint in addressing former Miss Universe Alicia Machado, who claims the real estate mogul berated her for her physical appearance. Machado is featured in an ad for the Clinton campaign, in which she said Trump called her “Miss Piggy” and “Miss Housekeeping”:
Here is the ad:
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Then Trump went on Bill O’Reilly’s show and the whining continued:
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“Trump Goes After Machado Again”:
In the situation Donald Trump is in with former Miss Universe Alicia Machado, any media professional or really anyone with a conscience would say this: "We quarreled many years ago. It's in the past. I truly wish her the best." Done and done.
But just an hour ago Trump went on O'Reilly to again trash Machado, now saying that he saved her job, gave her a shot at not being fat and this is the thanks he gets. Yes, he really said that. "You know, they wanted to fire her. The company itself wanted to fire her. I saved her job ... I saved her job because I said that's going to -- I did that with a number of young ladies. The staff itself [wanted to fire her]. Look what happened. Look what I get out of it. I get nothing. A lot of things are coming out about her."
Transcript:
O’REILLY: Other avenue they are going to come after you is the women card. They are going to say that you are a mean guy and you don't respect women. Do you have anything further to say on this Miss Universe thing?
TRUMP: No, not much. I hardly know this person. This was a person 20 years ago. She wasn't a successful, you know, I sold the Miss Universe contest for tremendous price about, you know, six months ago. Worked out great. So I don't have anything to do with it anymore. But I really enjoyed it when I had it. But this is a person, Bill that that was the first one under my ownership. She did not do well. She had a lot of difficulty. And, you know, they wanted to fire her. The company itself wanted to fire her. I saved her job. I will bet you if you put up and added up all the time I spoke to her probably less than five minutes. I mean, I wasn't -- I had nothing to do with this person, but they wanted to fire her. I saved her job because I said that's going to -- I did that with a number of young ladies. The staff itself. Look what happened. Look what I get out of it. I get nothing. A lot of things are coming out about her.
I'm not going to say anything. I couldn't care less. Somebody I don't know. Don't know certainly very well. I saved her job because they wanted to fire her for putting on so much weight it is a beauty contest. Say what you want, Bill. It's a beauty contest. I said "Don't do that. Let her try and lose the weight." You can imagine? I end up in a position like this. So that's the way it is. I really just don't know her.
O’REILLY: Do you think that was a cheap shot by Secretary Clinton to bring that up?
TRUMP: Well, I think it was. A lot of things are coming out that I wasn't aware of. They say she threatened the life of a judge and got involved in all sorts of problems and some reports just came out 20 minutes ago about her. You know, if that turns out to be true. A lot of the things that are turning out to be, perhaps, true, I think it's going to make Hillary look extremely bad. But, again, I helped somebody and this is what you get for helping somebody. I just don't know her.
What a disgusting whiner.
“Look what I get out of it. I get nothing.”
”You can imagine? I end up in a position like this. So that's the way it is.”
”I helped somebody and this is what you get for helping somebody.”
His campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, is just as whiny, going around playing the victim card.
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“Megyn Kelly lectures Kellyanne Conway like a child for whining that Hillary isn’t playing ‘nice’”:
Donald Trump campaign spokeswoman Kellyanne Conway walked into a buzzsaw Wednesday night on the normally welcome Fox News network, only to have Megyn Kelly blitz her with a rundown on Trump’s lifelong history of demeaning and smearing women.
As Conway attempted to reframe Monday night’s debate, the Fox News host cut her off and took issue when the Trump campaign manager complained about Clinton running “not nice” ads against Trump.
“Kellyanne, come on,” Kelly said to her as she were a child. “It’s not nice? They are running for president! Of course she going to hit him with negative ads.”
When Kellyanne Conway interjected “but the ads should be true” Megyn Kelly seemed taken aback, stunned, and then put Kellyanne straight:
The ads that she is running about him, when it comes to his comments about women, use his words, Kellyanne, use his words.”
The Huffington Post also ridiculed Kellyanne Conway’s incessant post-debate whining on America Live with Megyn Kelly:
Donald Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway spectacularly blundered during an interview with Fox News’ Megyn Kelly on Wednesday in her defense of the Republican presidential nominee’s habit of attacking women.
Conway complained that Trump was unfairly criticized after Monday night’s debate. She added that Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton had attempted to “rough him up,” during the debate and in campaign ads, over “a couple of comments he’s made over 25 years or so with respect to women.”
Kelly took the opportunity to hit Conway hard.
“Kellyanne, come on,” she responded. “The ads that she’s running about him when it comes to his comments on women use his words.”
That’s the beauty of the ads; They use Trump’s OWN WORDS, nothing is misrepresented or left to one’s imagination.
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Role Models:
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She continued after Conway tried to play down the extent of Trump’s misogynistic statements.
“You know that’s not true. You know he has repeatedly made comments about women ― about their looks, their size, their weight, even in this campaign,” Kelly said, referencing his stabs at the looks of his former GOP rival Carly Fiorina and businesswoman Heidi Cruz, who is the wife of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), and Clinton.
Conway again said she didn’t understand why Clinton keeps hitting him with negative ads.
“Because she’s killing him with women and she sees an advantage there and is trying to exploit it,” Kelly said matter-of-factly.
I liked the editor’s note at the end of that Huffington Post article:
Editor’s note: Donald Trump regularly incites political violence and is a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist and birther who has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims — 1.6 billion members of an entire religion — from entering the U.S.
Trump and his surrogates, in particular his campaign manager Kellyanne Conway, but also others (i.e. Rudy Giuliani here and here) constantly whine about how Trump is treated by the media, his opponent, moderators, people from his past. It goes strongly counter to Trump’s attempt to portray himself as the virile, strong alpha male, and instead it makes him look weak, peevish, and a sniveling whiner blaming others for his own shortcomings and mistakes, a victim of Hillary’s “not nice” treatment.
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