Trump: 'We can't continue to allow China to rape our country'
By Jeremy Diamond, CNN
Updated 10:44 PM ET, Sun May 1, 2016
Donald Trump on Sunday compared the U.S.'s trade deficit with China, which he regularly laments and vows to tackle as president, to rape.
"We
can't continue to allow China to rape our country, and that's what
they're doing," Trump said during his second rally Sunday in Fort Wayne,
Indiana, referring to China's high number of exports relative to the
U.S.
Trump
has repeatedly accused China of manipulating its currency to make its
exports more competitive on the global market and has claimed that China
is "killing" the U.S. on trade.
Sunday marks the first time this
campaign that Trump has used the term "rape" to refer to what he views
as China's dominance in trade with the U.S.
"We're
going to turn it around. And we have the cards, don't forget it. We're
like the piggy bank that's being robbed. We have the cards. We have a
lot of power with China," Trump said Sunday before referring to China's
relationship with the U.S. as rape.
Trump added that he is not "angry at China," but with U.S. leaders whom he accused of being "grossly incompetent."
Trump previously claimed in 2011 that "China is raping this country" as he toured a defense manufacturer in New Hampshire.
Trump's
use of the analogy come as Trump is under fire for remarks he made
about Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton that critics are calling
sexist and for touting the endorsement of boxer Mike Tyson, who was
convicted of rape in Indiana.
Trump
has claimed that Clinton -- a former secretary of state, senator and
first lady -- is using "the woman card" to get elected and that she
would not have a shot at the presidency if she were not a woman.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, Trump's main
competitor in the Indiana GOP primary, slammed Trump for touting Tyson's
support, whom Trump referred to as a "tough guy."
"I
don't think rapists are tough guys. I think rapists are weak, they're
bullies and they're cowards," Cruz said Sunday on CBS' "Face the
Nation."
One of the most effective political ads of the season features
women repeating the many derogatory statements Donald Trump has made
about the fairer sex.
No editorial comment is needed when a candidate’s own words stand alone to expose his flaws, and thus to condemn him.
Just
ask Mitt Romney, whose 47 percent remark effectively ended his
presidential aspirations. Saying that he wasn’t worried about the 47
percent of people who are on some form of welfare was perceived as
exposing a lack of compassion for the poor.
Romney’s ruin on that account may not have been fair, but it was enough.
Trump,
by contrast, can say nearly anything and escape judgment from a
majority of Republican primary voters. Hearing him refer to women as
“bimbo,” “dog” or “fat pig,” — or discuss his own wives’
gastrointestinal functions with Howard Stern — have left him
sufficiently unscathed.
It is understood that Republicans rarely suffer for criticizing
Hillary Clinton. “Hating Hillary” is a chronic obsession on the right,
especially among men for whom Trump spoke when he recently told MSNBC’s
Joe Scarborough that it was too early in the morning for him to listen
to Clinton’s “shouting.”
There’s no denying that a woman’s raised voice is every man’s
nightmare — for so many obvious reasons. For similarly obvious reasons,
it is never politic for a man to point this out.
Unless it seems, you’re Trump.
He and Scarborough were chatting about Trump’s recent comment that
all Clinton had going for her was the female vote and accused her of
playing the “woman’s card.” Just being a woman apparently is playing
this card in Trump’s world, where he prefers that women play the man’s
card. Or, as Trump might say, his “whatever.”
Why not put a bow on that while you’re at it, eh, chap?
Despite the daunting competition, nothing else Trump has said has been further from the truth. That is, until he
said it. In no time, Clinton’s campaign was offering a pink, credit
card-sized “Woman Card” to online donors. Trump also provided Clinton
the sort of touché moment atheists pray for:
“Well, if fighting for women’s health care and paid family leave and
equal pay is playing the woman card, then deal me in,” she said in an
impassioned voice. (Trump-lator: Screeching like a wounded owl.)
Adding confetti and Champagne to his gift, Trump went on: “And
frankly, if Hillary Clinton were a man, I don’t think she’d get 5
percent of the vote. … And the beautiful thing is that women don’t like
her, OK?”
Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you, roared the columnist from her bunker. Do we hear a hallelujah? Hallelujah!
Thus heralding the obvious question: What if Trump were a woman? Imagine a Donna Trump running as a Republican who:
• Got her start with more than $1 million from her father’s business,
parlayed into billions via four bankruptcies and various business
failures.
• Wouldn’t disclose tax returns and donated to numerous Democrats, including Hillary Clinton.
• Ran a university wracked by allegations of fraud.
• Imported two of her three husbands from overseas, one of them on a
“model” visa, and dumped the second husband days before their prenuptial
agreement could hurt her wallet.
• Put her third husband on her plane, naked and handcuffed on a bear rug for a photo shoot she said was “classy.”
• Said her son was so handsome she’d date him if he weren’t her son.
• Said women who had abortions should be punished (if abortion were illegal).
• Knew nothing about foreign policy or even how to pronounce the names of countries.
• Routinely cursed, called people names, demonized her opponents, as
well as Mexicans, Muslims and others, and called men dogs, morons and
fat slobs.
If Trump were a woman, not only would he not get 5 percent of the
vote, he’d be tarred, feathered, branded and ridden out of town backward
on a donkey. Voters, male and female, would recognize immediately that
such a woman was inappropriate, lacking in quality and character,
perhaps more than a little crazy — and utterly unqualified to be
president of the United States.
The only thing Trump’s got going for him, one is tempted to say, is
the men’s vote, which is no way to deflect accusations of a GOP war on
women. But as Trump himself would assert: At least he’s keeping it
classy.
Daily Show Digs Up Most Disturbing Donald Trump Daughter Clip Yet
by Tommy Christopher | April 6th, 2016
One of the worst running jokes in a campaign full of them has been Republican frontrunner Donald Trump‘s truly gross habit of sexualizing his daughter, Ivanka Trump, but you really haven’t seen anything yet. On Wednesday night, The Daily Show revealed that they had dug up a 1994 clip from an episode of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous
(which was apparently still on in 1994) in which Trump took his
windowless-van parenting style all the way to eleven. There is really no
way to prepare yourself for this.
Click Here to Watch the 1994 Interview Clip: http://www.cc.com/video-clips/8wmfl1/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-tales-from-the-trump-archive---donald-trump-s-history-of-misogyny
That’s right, folks, Donald Trump speculated about his then-infant
daughter Tiffany Trump’s potential breast size and legs that won’t quit.
Here’s to all the lucky people who went long on brain bleach stock
yesterday.
IN Focus Exclusive: One-on-one with Donald Trump’s son
Posted May 1, 2016, by Jake Miller
PARKE COUNTY, Ind. - Who would have thought an interview with the
son of a billionaire who’s running for president would happen in rural
western Indiana near an old barn, but if you know Donald Trump Jr., this
is exactly where he’d be.
“Very much. That was the way we were brought up,” said Trump dressed from head to toe in camo.
38-year-old Trump, the eldest son of Republican presidential
candidate Donald Trump, was hunting turkeys Thursday near Marshall,
enjoying the outdoors.
“It's a big part of my life so I’m a pretty big advocate for the outdoors, for hunting, shooting and fishing,” said Trump.
He and his friends bagged a bird earlier in the morning.
“I did get a turkey we did well,” Trump said smiling.
As an avid hunter, Trump says his father will not add to existing federal gun laws.
“It’s the second amendment. It’s not like it was some ridiculous
afterthought 400 years later. I mean it was the second thing after
freedom of speech and religion. That’s a big deal. That’s gotta be
protected,” said Trump. "All you’re doing is preventing law abiding
citizens from defending themselves. Criminals are not gonna follow the
laws.”
Trump says money should be spent on a real solution.
“We spend a lot of money trying to get rid of guns and we’re
defunding state budgets to deal with mental health issues,” said Trump.
Trump hopes Hoosiers agree with his father’s stance comes through for him on May 3.
“Indiana actually has the chance to really make a difference in this
election. I think if we have a resounding win here on Tuesday, we just
end it. I mean, it’s pretty much over,” said Trump.
Trump believes this campaign is making history in American politics.
“It’s just incredibly moving it’s really historical. It’s pretty cool
to be a part of it even if I’m only a small fly on the wall," said
Trump. Trump calls his father's campaign a movement.
“He’s just gonna do an amazing job for this country and he’s gonna
make people’s voices heard and it’s gonna matter again,” said Trump.
On Tuesday Senator Ted Cruz to choose former candidate for president
Carly Fiorina as a running mate, Trump says it's too little too late.
“It doesn't matter. I've never heard of a candidate who’s not even
half way to the nomination to announce a vice presidential candidate. It
doesn't make any sense to me,” said Trump.
As for a running mate for his father, Trump says there are many options.
"You have to bring in people that know how to play whether it’s
business or whether it’s politics so, he’s gonna bring in someone that
has some of that experience, but now’s not the time,” said Trump.
Right now, they want to make sure the Trump message is heard here in
Indiana and they are hoping to make an impact over the next five days
until the May 3 primary.
Trump calls California protesters 'thugs and
criminals' after his Secret Service detail was forced to walk him over a
highway and in the back of a hotel at the state Republican Party's
annual convention
By
David Martosko, Us Political Editor For Dailymail.com
and
Kalhan Rosenblatt For Dailymail.com
Published: 30 April 2016
| Updated: 1 May 2016
Donald Trump has blasted the protesters who swarmed the outside of the state Republican Party's annual convention in San Francisco where he was due to give a speech.
In a tweet
he posted on Saturday, the GOP front runner called the demonstrators
'thugs and criminals' after he was forced to sneak in the back door of
the Hyatt Regency hotel in the suburb of Burlingame.
'The
"protesters" in California were thugs and criminals. Many are
professionals. They should be dealt with strongly by law enforcement!'
Trump tweeted.
On
Friday Trump had to be led across a grass highway median and in a
back-door loading dock at the Hyatt Regency to avoid the furious
protesters.
Donald Trump lashed out at the
protesters who forced him to enter the Hyatt Regency in a San Francisco
suburb through a loading dock because of their ferocious demonstrations
'That was not the easiest entrance
I've ever made': Trump joked with the Republican crowd when he
eventually took the stage after being smuggled into the venue, saying
they got to walk through lobby while he was being pushed in the back.
'I felt like I
was crossing the border': Trump called back to his showpiece pledge
about building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border
Trump felt like he 'was crossing the border, actually,' he said.
Led
by his regular protective detail and Trump's private bodyguard Keith
Schiller, the Republican front-runner's arrival became a full-blown
media spectacle, with cable news channels interrupting their broadcasts
for helicopter live-shots.
Their
audiences were treated to the sight of the 69-year-old Trump hopping
nearly three feet down from a cement barrier to the grass below,
skirting between two chain-link fences, and then climbing uphill in his
expensive suit and shoes while local police and California Highway
Patrol kept liberal activists at bay on the other side of the hotel.
'That
was not the easiest entrance I've ever made,' Trump joked when he
eventually took the stage. 'My wife calls – she says, "There are
helicopters following you"'
'And
then we went under a fence, and through a fence. Oh boy, I felt like I
was crossing the border actually, you know? I was crossing the border
but I got here.'
'You all walk through the lobby. I'm going under fences!' he told the audience of party loyalists.
As he
finished his remarks, a mashup of his stump-speech themes, Trump looked
offstage to his security detail that was getting ready to take him out
the same way he came in.
'I know they're waiting,' Trump said.' They're gonna take me under a fence, through a field.'
'Oh, you have no idea the route they have planned for me to get out of here!'
At
least one person was detained outside as shouting matches between
anti-Trump protesters and pro-Trump supporters occasionally clashed. A
few protesters even stole an American flag and burned it, drawing angry
responses from both sides. A Trump effigy was also burned.
Outsmarted: Instead, Secret Service
and private security guards led Trump (at center, flanked on all four
sides) down a concrete ramp to a steep jump down to grass, and then
uphill toward
Photography by Matt Slocum/AP/PA Photos/ Rex/Shutterstock
By Ailis Brennan
Donald Trump is many things, but few of us anticipated the “king of the jungle” sex symbol painted so colourfully by researchers polling Middle America’s female population.
Donald
Trump appears to inspire some worryingly carnal reactions in a certain
female demographic. A study carried out by pollsters in Pittsburgh
focused on the so-called “Walmart moms”, women who have at least one
child under the age of 18 and who have visited America’s largest
supermarket chain at least once within the last month.
When researchers asked GOP “Walmart moms” which car they would compare Republican candidate Donald Trump to, responses included a “Ferrari”, a “Porsche”
and a “muscle car”. When questioned about which animal they would liken
to the billionaire property mogul they answered a “bulldog”, a “lion”
or, most curiously, “an unpredictable cat”.
"These Moms praised
him as someone who speaks his mind, stands his ground, and is
refreshingly politically incorrect," the researchers wrote, noting that
the study also found comparisons between Trump and “a boxer who stands his ground” Unsurprisingly, Ted Cruz
didn’t come out so well, prompting responses in the animal category as a
“gorilla — almost human” or “like a neighbour’s dog — you don’t know if
they’re going to bite”. John Kasich was described either as “too sane”
or simply provoked a baffled “Who?”
The study predictably showed that these women were dismissive of claims that Donald Trump regularly displayed misogynistic behaviour, including making disparaging allusions to the physical appearance of Ted Cruz’s wife, Heidi Cruz, insinuating that broadcaster Megyn Kelly
had “blood coming out of her everywhere” at a Republican debate and
reminding us all that “it doesn't really matter what [the media] write
as long as you've got a young and beautiful piece of ass.”
Donald Trump Won’t Say Whether Any of His Sex Partners Needed an Abortion
By Christina CauterucciApril 4 2016 2:20 PM
Donald Trump speaks at a town hall event on April 2, 2016 in Racine, Wisconsin.
Darren Hauck/Getty Images
Donald Trump appalled progressive observers and anti-choice activists
alike last week when he told MSNBC’s Chris Matthews that, if abortion
were banned, women who terminated their pregnancies should be punished. His remarks were logically in line with anti-abortion rhetoric, but so wholly terrifying to moderate voters that he was forced to walk back one of his statements for perhaps the first time in his campaign.
In last week’s MSNBC interview, Trump said that in his America, a man
would not bear any responsibility for his partner’s illegal abortion.
But if terminating a pregnancy really is murder (as anti-choice
advocates like to claim) and a moral breach worthy of legal retribution
(as Trump suggested), why wouldn’t a partner who helped coordinate or
pay for the abortion be an accessory to the crime?
Maureen Dowd’s column in Sunday’s New York Times might hold some clues to Trump’s reasoning. In their conversation, Trump tried to redeem himself from recent depictions of his misogynist worldview. “It was a mistake,” he said of his retweeting of an image that disparaged Ted Cruz’s wife, Heidi. “I attack men far more than I attack women, and I attack them tougher,” he said of his repeated ridicule of women’s looks.
When Dowd baited him with an anecdote about a recent New York
fundraiser for Hillary Clinton’s LGBT supporters, where Rosie O’Donnell likened him to Lord Voldemort,
Trump said “I won’t comment on Rosie” and “I wish her the best,”
declaring that he’s “making progress” by refusing to insult O’Donnell in
the press.
As for Trump’s disturbing abortion remarks, Dowd went personal:
Given his draconian comment, sending women back to back
alleys, I had to ask: When he was a swinging bachelor in Manhattan, was
he ever involved with anyone who had an abortion?
“Such an interesting question,” he said. “So what’s your next question?”
How should we interpret the GOP frontrunner’s non-answer, which seems
curiously demure for such a bombastic self-promoter? “It Sure Sounds
Like Donald Trump Has Paid for an Abortion or Two in His Life,” Mother Jones mused—a
plausible read, since any candidate would deny such an allegation
outright unless it contained some element of truth. Then again, Trump
seems to have no compunction in lying about other unsavory facts of his past and campaign, and when he’s caught in those lies, he just comes up with a new story to explain them away. Why wouldn’t he deny helping a former partner obtain an abortion, even if he had?
Trump’s powerful, tough-guy image rests on his history of womanizing
and wielding power over women by reducing them to sex objects. He is a
self-styled lady-killer, and his unapologetic boasting about his sexual
history is one reason why millions of voters consider him a manly man
who can take our country back from namby-pamby Obama. Trump has taken
great pride in his ability to attract and sleep with beautiful women—the
subtext of his initial attack on Heidi Cruz was that his macho sexual
prowess made him better qualified for the presidency than the clean-cut
weenie, Ted Cruz.
In years past, when the narrative of American conservatism was
largely controlled by religious values voters, the prospect of a past
partner’s abortion might have derailed a Republican candidate. But
Trump’s followers don’t mind that he was once vocally pro-choice, and
they love when he brags about taking hot women to bed. Of course, if a
voter accepts Trump’s alleged decades of casual extramarital sex, she
shouldn’t be surprised that he may have, at one time, somehow
participated in a partner’s abortion. Trump, however, is counting on
folks to resist making that logical leap: If he admitted to any
complicity in a woman’s abortion, he’d alienate the religious
Republicans and independents he still needs to win a general election.
But if he denied it flat out, he’d undermine his own virile image, which
is as vital to his own fragile self-esteem as it is to the support of
voters who want a libidinous playboy in the Oval Office.
