Dick Cavett: 5 Questions We Should Be Asking Donald Trump (VIDEO)

Dick Cavett, former talk show host, has been featured on American television regularly for decades. He used to be the host of The Tonight Show. With these decades of media experience, he weighed in on the phenomenon (aka media sh*tstorm) that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has created.

He presented to the Hollywood Reporter five questions that the media should be asking Donald Trump:

“1. When did it occur to you that you have what it takes to be POTUS? Before or after you were caught as a child throwing rocks at an infant in a playpen over a fence?”

“2. Why not take this opportunity to address once and for all how your bitter denunciations of trade agreements that take jobs from Americans by sending their business abroad are antithetical to your having your steaks and ties and other novelties manufactured in a variety of foreign countries, creating jobs for foreigners instead of Americans?”

“3. You once said that you like kids but don’t want to raise them: You prefer to give the mother (or mothers) the money and let them do the, um, dirty work. Do you see the mammoth chore of kid-raising, then, as what’s quaintly known as ‘women’s work’?”

‘4. Does it bother you that some say that down deep, Trump is aware of how unqualified he is for The Big Job and keeps trying to blow it? That the only reasons he really might want to be president would be to get two buildings constructed in Russia with his name on them and to wield executive-office pull over the plaintiffs in the Trump University lawsuit? How else can we explain insults to Gold Star parents of a dead hero, the shut-the-baby up incident, the ‘Punch ’em in the face’ admonitions to his most lowbrow set of followers? The list lengthens.”

“5. Would it be more convincing — your claim to know ‘more about ISIS than the generals’ — if you were to, in a burst of patriotism and generosity, share with those benighted generals two or three items of your expertise? If only for, say, the good of the country?”

I’ve thought about many of these things, myself. With every stupid comment Trump makes, I wonder if he knows how this hurts his reputation. Insulting our military would cause anyone else to get hounded by the media. Republicans are supposed to support the troops; I guess Trump never got that memo. Ask these questions, and vote blue in November. We can’t have this ridiculous clown in the Oval Office.

Here is an interview with Cavett from a few months ago:

Featured image via YouTube screenshot.

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