This entire election year has been a total circus. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is just a firehose of vulgar, racist, bigoted comments. He made such a huge deal out of Romney’s 47 percent gaffe in 2012, but he made his own 50 percent comment and no one has heard about it. This should’ve been all over the mainstream media.
In June 2015, Trump made a remark about the 50 million Americans who are in poverty. Mitt Romney made a similar remark during the 2012 election when he said:
“There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. That that’s an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what…These are people who pay no income tax.”
In an interview on Faux News, Trump said this during an interview with Sean Hannity:
“I would create incentives for people to work. People don’t have an incentive. They make more money by sitting there doing nothing than they make if they have a job. We have to create incentives that they actually do much better by working. Right now they have a disincentive. They have an incentive not to work.”
Trumpkin also said:
“The problem we have right now—we have a society that sits back and says we don’t have to do anything. Eventually, the 50 percent cannot carry—and it’s unfair to them—but cannot carry the other 50 percent.”
This intolerant remark shows how rich men can’t identify with most Americans. This comment should’ve been put up front and center when he made it. This should be used to cost him the election.
Here is a clip from the 2012 election with Trump talking about the “47 percent” remark.
Featured image via Twitter.
