Posted on 04/21/2016 7:13:56 PM PDT by Kaslin
On Thursday, Republican frontrunner Donald Trump took the liberal stance on transgender restroom access. Media outlets can call it "moderate" all they want, but it is inescapable that Trump defended biological men using women's restrooms. The Donald is not exactly hesitant to offend people, and transgressing political correctness has been one of the centerpieces of his campaign. He even declared in the past that he would protect Christians and social conservatives, but this acceptance of "transgender rights" may be a sign that he has started pandering to the "center" for the general election.
Conservatives have long warned that Trump is unpredictable, that he would make a horrible Republican standard bearer because he does not represent the classical issues of that party. Now it seems The Donald might be proving them right -- after most of the socially conservative voters in the South already backed the real estate tycoon.
Trump attacked the North Carolina law which reserved multiple-person restrooms in schools and government facilities to only those people of the appropriate biological sex. This law was intended to protect the privacy of girls and boys, men and women, but many companies attacked it as discriminatory. Rather than defending the law -- as those who find The Donald a champion of conservative or politically incorrect values might expect -- Trump trashed it.
"North Carolina did something that was very strong and they're paying a big price and there's a lot of problems," said Trump, who would have left things as they were. "There have been very few complaints the way it is. People go, they use the bathroom that they feel is appropriate, there has been so little trouble."
This stance sounds moderate -- Trump is arguing that there should be no restrictions -- but in reality, it is a complete surrender to a small, vocal minority. If public restrooms must be one way or the other, why side with the infinitesimal minority of people who identify with the sex opposite the one they were born with, rather than the millions of men and women who are comfortable with their birth sex?
Why can we not have more single-serve, unisex restrooms, to avoid the issue entirely? Trump attacked the idea of separate transgender restrooms as a waste of money -- he's right -- but he did not address this solution, which many restaurants have already adopted.
In matter of fact, Trump is incorrect that there has been "so little trouble." Women who claim to have been abused as children are now vehemently opposing the opening of girls' and women's restrooms to biological men. When the New York Times attacked Americans concerned about this issue as effectively insane, controlled by "transgender bathroom hysteria," these disenfranchised people took to Twitter to express their outrage. Regardless of what Trump or the New York Times says, many Americans are concerned about this, and it's not just because of "transphobia."
Nevertheless, The Donald was quite explicit in his support for transgender access. He said that if Caitlyn Jenner (born Bruce Jenner) walked into Trump Tower, The Donald would let her use the restroom of her choice.
If @Caitlyn_Jenner walked into Trump Tower, what bathroom would @RealDonaldTrump suggest she use? #TrumpTODAY https://t.co/E6jLyif6ls
— TODAY (@TODAYshow) April 21, 2016
The Federalist's Ben Domenech once explained why social conservatives in the South might back Donald Trump. Domenech said these voters "have no illusions about [Trump's] unbelief. The difference is that while they believe Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio would be one more round of good soldiers for their cause, they think Donald Trump would be a tank."
But when it comes to actually fighting for conservative values, Trump ends up on the other side. Indeed, in a classic battle involving political correctness, he falls neatly in line. The Donald might not be a tank, but rather a Trojan horse.
Your opinion differs. That does not make this piece a lie.
I’ll vote for Trump if he’s the nominee, but that doesn’t mean we should stop applying pressure from the right.
If its a non-issue then why have laws protecting transexuals rights to use whatever bathroom they choose?
If I can’t tell a transexual then neither can you. So when the pedophile follows your daughter or grand daughter into the restroom, remember that you can’t stop them just because they are a man, because you are unable to tell if they are transexual and that pedophile has a right to follow them in.
Many times I waited for my small girls outside of a public restroom and there is no way in hell I would have let a man walk in while they were inside.
The stupid train has left the station and it is packed with Trump supporters who have literally sold their souls to the huckster.
According to Kerick, who by the way spent a great deal of time down at Ground Zero, Donald Trump displayed incredible generosity and concern towards the volunteers and first responders who worked down at “The Pile” sifting through debris for body remains. Bernie told me without hesitation, “Trump instructed hundreds of his hotel workers to head down to Ground Zero and offer a hand doing whatever needed to be done. Be it hand out water, food, etc, etc.” I asked if the cameras caught any of this? Kerick explained there were no cameras permitted in the area, and Trump knew this. Meaning, he didn’t do it for the fanfare or press clippings. Perhaps Donald did it because he loves America, and because he cares about the American people?
Kerick went on to say Trump himself visited Ground Zero to help lift spirits and to thank the tireless workers who were down there each day and night searching for bodies. “He didn’t have to do it, he wanted to do it. That’s the Trump I know.”
http://dennismichaellynch.com/the-real-donald-trump/
He didn’t back track at ll. He simply didn’t say the things the Cruzers tried to put in his mouth.....as usual.
I guess no one here saw Hannity just now
Did Hannity recite for Trump the “right” answer that conservatives want to hear so that Trump could just nod and say “yes” like usually happens on that show?
Please watch the video of the Today show. It’s pretty self explanatory. The words he said are what he said. Kind of hard to interpret them in any other way.
Yeah, I saw that story.
Money talks. But that is BS. Trump never gave a rat’s butt about ground zero. Never even visited it until he was running for president.
It took running for President to get Donald Trump to travel the 4 miles between his glitzy Fifth Ave. digs and Ground Zero.
The New Yorker finally graced the hallowed ground of the National Sept. 11 Memorial & Museum in lower Manhattan Saturday for the first time. The GOP front-runner racked up another first, giving $100,000 to the institution, the only time he has made a donation, the Daily News has learned.
The cash was followed by a Trump quip taking a shot at GOP challenger Ted Cruz’s statement earlier this year mocking “New York values.”
Trump expressed his admiration for the museum — and added, “This is what ‘New York values’ are really about.”
Trump has often invoked the terror attacks on the campaign trail. But when he was just a real estate scion, Trump never found the time to pay his respects to the nearly 3,000 people who lost their lives on 9/11 — despite his claims that he “lost hundreds of friends” at the World Trade Center
Notice that the first time he gave a dime was after he was running for president.
Believe what you want.
He trashed NC for recognizing basic scientific facts.
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WHAT basic scientific facts????????????????????????
You know that Ted Cruz will probably win on the 2nd.
Trump has over 50% more delegates than Cruz. He has received millions more votes during the primary. Trump's popularity is soaring. Cruz continues to drop like a rock, all he can talk about is Trump. This issue is just one more example of Cruz being completely off message. Ted has not done well in any battle ground states. He cannot win in the general.
It does not look like Trump will have any problem getting to 1237. Trump is now the presumptive nominee. Even if Trump somehow came up a little short, the leadership will steer enough unpledged delegates to get Trump over the top and avoid a disastrous contested convention.
Even if this was to go to a "second vote" there is no way that Ted can get the hundreds of additional votes that he would need to get to a majority. Cruz has a bunch of GOP insiders on his campaign team. Ted doesn't have a "brilliant ground game"; Ted has had the insiders fixing the game. Ted's operatives who have been installed as other candidates pledged delegates are loyal to the party not Cruz. The party is finally starting to come to the realization that Trump is going to be the guy. It is over for Ted.
You're seriously quoting Media Matters here, one of the most leftist web sites in the world?
Do you not realize that women have always had the right to undress in private without having naked men be able to watch them? Only left-tards want to "progress" beyond common sense rules like that.
I want an American born on American soil, whose father took the time to teach him the good things in life, (you can see that in Trump’s children) and he built his company in America, and Americans are in deep trouble right now..
How do you think a Cuban green card holder, who high tailed it off to Canada when the draft came for Viet Nam so he didn’t have to go...who married a woman here in the States, with two girls, went to Canada and married, at the same time had another wife and a son in Canada...then came back and divorced them both...and was a Canadian until he gave up his citizenship in Canada and he doesn’t have one here, just explain to me how all this works to raise a decent, well rounded person? You can’t....
I happen to agree with Trump that this is just another tempest in a teapot. A crowded subway offers more THREAT to a person’s dignity than a bathroom that is used for a few minutes at the most.
and how do you know so much about it?
+1 :^D
And you were there and seen all this?
They sure as heck didn't walk into the guys’ bathroom dressed as gals. THINK, folks!
HarleyLady was telling the truth. Would you like to read the truth? Here’s what is posted on FR, more at links.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3423442/posts
The Real Donald Trump (helping ground zero, Levin owes Trump a big apology).
Dennis Michael Lynch ^ | http://dennismichaellynch.com/the-real-donald-trump/
Posted on 4/21/2016, 5:33:57 PM by true believer forever
According to Kerick, who by the way spent a great deal of time down at Ground Zero, Donald Trump displayed incredible generosity and concern towards the volunteers and first responders who worked down at “The Pile” sifting through debris for body remains. Bernie told me without hesitation, “Trump instructed hundreds of his hotel workers to head down to Ground Zero and offer a hand doing whatever needed to be done. Be it hand out water, food, etc, etc.” I asked if the cameras caught any of this? Kerick explained there were no cameras permitted in the area, and Trump knew this. Meaning, he didn’t do it for the fanfare or press clippings. Perhaps Donald did it because he loves America, and because he cares about the American people?
Kerick went on to say Trump himself visited Ground Zero to help lift spirits and to thank the tireless workers who were down there each day and night searching for bodies. “He didn’t have to do it, he wanted to do it. That’s the Trump I know.”
Ruddy said he was speaking recently with former New York City Police Commissioner Bernie Kerik, who told him that after the 9/11 attacks, Trump called to say he was emptying out his buildings and his staffs, sending 500 to 1,000 of his people to Ground Zero to help. Trump even came to the site to help.
Ruddy said when other business owners were thinking about evacuating the city, Trump took the opposite approach.
“There were no press conferences, no photo ops,” said Ruddy. “That’s the sort of good Donald Trump that we all know. I’ve chatted with him and said, ‘Hey, look, you’ve got to stop attacking all of the people that you’re going to need in the general election.’”
http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/ruddy-delusional-dangerous-trump/2016/03/18/id/719812/
We never let our “small girls” go into a public restroom alone. The fact that you and Ted keep using this as a talking point shows either that you are not a parent or that you are not the one who took car of your kids. Either way both of you are liars or you are both really stupid. No one lets small girls or small boys go into public restrooms alone. This has been true for as long as my wife and I have been alive.
That is one of the primary reasons this is a stupid NON-ISSUE. Real parents accompany their kids into public restrooms. They never tell a little boy or a little boy to use the bathroom alone ever. This is the stupidest line of crap that I have seen Cruz try. How damned STUPID are you?
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