There are many words we can use to describe 2016 GOP frontrunner Donald Trump: Bully, misogynist, Islamophobe, racist, jerkweed, thin-skinned, pompous, and now to those we can add weirdo.
Why do I say that? Well, take a look at this 1996 photo of the Donald with his daughter, Ivanka, who was 15 years old at the time:
A picture of Donald Trump, with his daughter Ivanka, perched atop two concrete parrots having sex. pic.twitter.com/TFse8gM1An
— Tim Ireland (@bloggerheads) January 31, 2016
Hey, maybe this picture was taken with very innocent intent (God knows I sure hope it was), but let’s step back for a moment and perform a bit of a critical analysis on the photo: First of all, the way Ivanka is looking at her dad and touching his face is kinda strange, but I’ll give the girl a pass on that one. Now take a look at the sculpture the two Trumps are sitting on. It’s two birds (macaws? parrots? does it really matter?) who appear to be having sex. Yeah, that’s real appropriate for a Dad-daughter picture.
And when you view this photo in light of some of the things Trump has said about his daughter, it starts to make your skin crawl. Consider what Daddy Trump said when asked how he’d feel if Ivana posed for Playboy:
“It would be really disappointing — not really — but it would depend on what’s inside the magazine. I don’t think Ivanka would do that, although she does have a very nice figure. I’ve said if Ivanka weren’t my daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her.”
That’s pretty damn pervy in my humble opinion. And then we have this:
“You know who’s one of the great beauties of the world, according to everybody? And I helped create her. Ivanka. My daughter, Ivanka. She’s 6 feet tall, she’s got the best body. She made a lot of money as a model—a tremendous amount.”
There’s nothing wrong with a father being proud of his daughter, even of her beauty, but somehow when I read this kind of thing coming from Trump’s mouth and consider his pattern of trophy wives who are younger than him, it gets very close to the line of being just weird as hell.
This is the guy we want leading the country? What, Roman Polanski wasn’t available?
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