Ping
Just Trump being Trump.
Doesn’t he have a one-legged sister nicknamed `Peg’?
He was obviously mocking the guy physicallywhich doesn’t bother me.Should own up to it.
Could have been worse.
He could have asked a handicapped, paralyzed man in a wheelchair to stand up.
Last year didn’t the Texas Democrats mock now-Governor Abbott for being in a wheelchair?
Seem to recall something along those lines.
Stand up, Chuck
That is pretty hard to believe. The reporter has apparently been covering Trump for decades, Trump opened his remarks by saying something like “you gotta see this guy,” and his impression just happened to pretty closely mimic the arm position and spasticity caused by the reporter’s disability. It strains credibility to suggest that it’s just a coincidence.
And I’m really not sure why Trump would be attacking the guy’s reporting anyway. Back in 2001, the guy reported that some people had been arrested after “allegedly” being seen celebrating. The reporter never reported seeing these celebrations, and never reported that the celebrations had even been corroborated. Which is all he has said recently. Trump is wrong when he says the guy has backed down from his initial reporting.
Where was the outrage when Bath House Barry mocked the Special Olympics?
Biden, telling Missouri state senator Chuck Graham to stand up at a campaign rally, before realizing that Graham is confined to a wheelchair.
If Trump had never seen the reporter then why did he say "you got to see this guy"?
It is astounding just how much the establishment fears Trump.
In their arrogance they telegraphing what they don’t want us to do.
Remember when the Libs made fun of McCain’s disability?
They maligned him for not using a Computer, but he can’t lift his arms to type on a Keyboard due to his Injuries when he Ejected from his Fighter over Vietnam.
They had a field day with that, but they didn’t say a word when Bill Clinton said he doesn’t type Emails. The same non existent Emails Hillary said she responded to 10,000 times.
Makes me want to vote for him more. I’m so sick of walking on eggshells all the time and I’m especially tired of the victim class and the perpetually offended.
Looking but can’t find the video of Obama at a campaign rally mimicking McCain’s walk.
I am sorry to see people here on the forum stooping to gutter politics such as what the nyt is doing. If you have proof Trump know this guy was disabled prove it. A still frame shot is far from proof.
He exposed them and they’re trying to make him pay.
That’s all this is about.
They want to control it all.
When people like that are exposed, they tell even more fantastical lies to assassinate the exposer’s character.
I read that in a psych book.
Smearing.
Narcissism is widespread and institutional now.
However you interpret the incident it is one data point among many. In this campaign there have been many data points recorded and many more will be created before the final ballot is cast.
The objective of the left is to destroy anyone opposing them by magnifying and distorting individual data points to create outrage in segments of the population as well peel off a few supporters. Multiple incidents = multiple opportunities for outrage = more supporters disillusioned or turning away each time. Create enough incidents of real or fake outrage and you eliminate enough support to win against the target. Classic Alinsky.
Trump is not politically correct. Period. If that bothers you, don’t support or vote for the man. At some point in his life he may have said the “N” word. If so, we’ll likely hear about it as the campaign progresses. One we know with certainty, if Hillary has said the “N” word at some point in her life, the press will cover up the data point. If Hillary has in any way disparaged a handicapped person the press will not report it. If there is such a data point, and it comes out despite the self censorship of the media, you can be assured it will be treated like Biden’s comments about Indian convenience store operators or his petting of an official’s wife on camera. The media and the left will fall all over themselves explaining why Hillary’s rude, boorish, immature, or spiteful behavior doesn’t mean anything.
I’m undecided in this race. At this point I’m collecting data points. There is no perfect candidate. If Trump was disparaging the reporter, the incident was rude, boorish, childish, immature, insensitive, and unstatesmanlike. Is this incident by itself disqualifying? Not in my opinion. Remember the US Senate, as well as the majority of the United States citizens per the polls, did not consider Bill Clinton’s sexual escapades and the associated perjury to be disqualifying. The left finds what may have been a crude gesture disqualifying while excusing perjury, fornication outside of marriage the oval office, disparaging remarks about ethnic groups, and the Vice President of the United States petting an official’s wife on television acceptable behavior.
We live in interesting times. Quite frankly, in today’s PC world, there are no real standards of behavior for candidates, people in positions of authority, or average citizens. In our PC world, standards of behavior are defined politically. If your politics lean left, you have a broader playing field than if your politics are conservative.
Knowing the game of the left is to apply constantly shifting and inconsistent standards to individuals, and then express outrage when the standard is violated, I refuse to play the game and let the left’s meme be the determining factor in my decision making. I’ve recorded this single data point about Trump and by the time I walk into a voting booth, if Trump is still on the ballot it will be one of many pieces of evidence leading to vote for or against him.
The one and only perfect human lived over 2000 years ago. There hasn’t been one since. By the time I go to the polls in 2016 the media, the leftists allied with the Democrat Party, and the GOPe will have demonized every candidate on my consideration list. I’m counting on my own sense of morality, my own research, and my own instincts to guide me to the right decision.
Until then, I’m collecting data and enjoying the show. Like him or hate him, Trump has done all of us a favor by blowing up the Bush coronation plan and turning the 2016 Republican nomination into a debate about real issues (immigration, trade, foreign policy, Obamacare) the elites wanted to suppress. Does this service outweigh the mocking of a reporter who directly attacked him? It depends on your point of view.