Oh, poor Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump! He was so so sad tonight, up on that big old debate stage.
He looked so defeated and so overwhelmed.
While his opponent, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, appeared to be happy and confident, Mr. Trump seemed to be his usual petulant, whiny self. He repeatedly fell back on is old tried and true position of “nuh, uh.” When Secretary Clinton referred to Trump’s initial support for the invasion of Iraq, he answered “Nuh, uh.” When she talked about his sexist comments, his answer was, “Nuh, uh.” No I didn’t.
I’ve seen more sophisticated arguments from fourth graders.
This time around, in this first Presidential debate, Donald Trump decided to attack his opponent for her ads.
In what has become a very recognizable character trait in the Republican nominee, Trump complained to the nation that Hillary Clinton is using ads against him that are “not nice.”
Isn’t that a hoot? “Not nice?”
I was a teacher for a few decades. I can just see the little boy with no friends, coming up to me to complain about the mean kids. I would ask what was wrong, and that boy would say that they kids weren’t being “nice.”
Poor sad boy.
So what was actually said by the man who thinks that he should be the leader of the free world? Here are his words:
“Hillary is hitting me with tremendous commercials. Some of it is entertainment, some of it—somebody who has been very vicious to me, Rosie O’Donnell. I said very tough things to her and I think everybody would agree that she deserves it and nobody feels sorry for her. But you want to know the truth. I was going to say something extremely rough to Hillary and to her family and I said to myself, I can’t do it. I just can’t do it. It’s inappropriate. It’s not nice. But she’s spent hundreds of millions of dollars on negative ads on me, many of which are absolutely untrue. They’re untrue and they’re misrepresentations and I will tell you this, Lester, it’s not nice and I don’t deserve that.”
Oh, my God. How adorably pathetic is that? She is hitting him with “tremendous” commercials? And they are “not nice?” In his signature rambling style, he brought in Rosie O’Donnell and Clinton’s family. What??
The best part is that poor pitiful Donald is complaining that Hillary was misrepresenting his actions.
So I wonder how he’d explain the fact that those “not nice” ads are pretty much just filled with videos of Donald himself actually saying those words that he wants to deny?
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