Posted on 09/10/2015 9:39:04 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Donald Trump insisted on CNN this morning that he was just referring to Carly Fiorina’s personality in comments made to Rolling Stone about her face.
The exact passage from the extensive interview with the magazine:
With his blue tie loosened and slung over his shoulder, Trump sits back to digest his meal and provide a running byplay to the news. Onscreen, they’ve cut away to a spot with Scott Walker, the creaky-robot governor of Wisconsin. Praised by the anchor for his “slow but steady” style, Walker is about to respond when Trump chimes in, “Yeah, he’s slow, all right! That’s what we got already: slowwww.” His staffers at the conference table howl and hoot; their man, though, is just getting warm. When the anchor throws to Carly Fiorina for her reaction to Trump’s momentum, Trump’s expression sours in schoolboy disgust as the camera bores in on Fiorina. “Look at that face!” he cries. “Would anyone vote for that? Can you imagine that, the face of our next president?!” The laughter grows halting and faint behind him. “I mean, she’s a woman, and I’m not s’posedta say bad things, but really, folks, come on. Are we serious?”
In another part of the article, Trump further says:
Then he pivoted to Carly Fiorina. “Carly was a little nasty to me — be careful, Carly! Be careful! But I can’t say anything to her because she’s a woman. . . . I promised that I wouldn’t say that she ran Hewlett-Packard into the ground. I said I wouldn’t say it! That her stock value tanked. That she laid off tens of thousands of people, and she got viciously fired. I said I will not say that. And that she then went out and ran against Barbara Boxer, and . . . lost in a landslide. And I said, ‘I. Will. Not. Say. That!’ ”
Fiorina was asked about the comments last night on Megyn Kelly’s Fox News show, and replied, “I’m not going to spend a single cycle wondering what Donald Trump means. But maybe just maybe I’m getting under his skin a little bit because I’m climbing in the polls.”
Scott Walker tweeted this morning: “Trump’s personal attacks against @CarlyFiorina are plain inappropriate and wrong. It’s time for these shameless attacks to end.”
Jeb Bush tweeted: “Trumps demeaning remarks are small and inappropriate for anyone, much less a presidential candidate. Carly & country deserve better. Enough.”
“The statement on Carly, I’m talking about her persona. Her persona is not going to be — she’s not going to be president,” Trump told CNN this morning. “And what she’s saying about my hair, I know that’s OK and you won’t defend me.”
“Carly had a terrible time in business. She destroyed a company. You have to get the report from Jeffrey Sonnenfeld of Yale. He’s the expert on Carly. It’s a disaster, and check out Lucent beforehand. So you have Ben saying what he said, you have Carly saying — these are two people that will not be president,” he continued.
Ben Carson was asked at a rally Wednesday how he differed from Trump. “Probably the biggest thing — I’ve realized where my success has come from and I don’t in anyway deny my faith in God,” Carson said. “My humility and the fear of the Lord are riches and honor and life and that’s a very big part of who I am. I don’t get that impression with him. Maybe I’m wrong, but I don’t get that.”
Trump said this morning that the neurosurgeon was “perhaps an OK doctor,” adding “you look at his faith and I think you’re not going to find so much.”
“All of a sudden he becomes this great religious figure. I don’t think he’s a great religious figure. I saw him yesterday quoting something and he was quoting on humility and it looked like he had just memorized it about two minutes before he made the quote. So, you know, don’t tell me about Ben Carson,” Trump said.
“…I have known Ben Carson, of him, for a long time. I never heard faith was a big thing until just recently when he started running.”
I grin at these predictions myself.
I guess it’s human nature to hope a guy you don’t like will drop like a rocks.
What they don’t understand, and never will by choice, is that if Trump were to drop out, we would be back at 2008 and 2012 all over again, in an instant.
How did those turn out?
Some folks sure are pining for those good old days...
I love many things Trump has spotlighted in his campaign, but in this case he comes off as a complete jerk. Besides, he’s one to talk about looks with not only his hair but his scowling pouty face.
Trump is his own worst enemy and his childish name calling and bragging is wearing thin and certainly cannot be considered presidential. What happens when Putin or any other world leader makes a critical remark about Trump if he is elected? What kind of tantrum will he have - with his finger on the button?
Make excuses for Trump, but the fact is he is a bully and a coward. He can dish it out but doesn’t have the guts to stand behind what he says. This is your pitiful hero.
Comes with the territory. With Trump you have to take the bad with the good. But at least there's more good there than bad.
With all the Botox, she looks like John Kerry’s sister.
Can we set a record on how many times this same story will be posted?
There are enough people out there fed up with PC, the MSM, the GOPee and the socialist democrats to elect him to the WH.
I don’t think it will come close to the number of Kim Davis stories posted....
Does Trump sound presidential? Is he demonstrating that he will bring back dignity, respect and honor back to the White House?
This is really just minutiae but the MSM is going to try to elevate it to a cardinal sin. Probably not a great idea to start with the looks stuff but who hasn’t mocked MItt Walker in front of their TV. We do it all the time. He is sloooow. LOL!
I agree with Donald Trump who is Ben Carson to question his faith? Ben Carson is a nice guy I guess and a good doctor but presidential material? No way. His comments on Trump’s immigration plan are just ignorant.
So all in all boys and girls welcome to politics. Its a full contact sport so this stuff is going to continue especially now that all the other GOP candidates are just twisting in the winds.
I'm predicting he'll self-destruct within two months if he doesn't shut his big pie hole with the childish insults. And his performance during the next debate will probably not go so well...
wow, you win the knee pad pretzel award for the day......quite a damned honor...
I’m with you dude....preach it.
Carly’s got bad teeth (see pic above). You’d think with all her money she’s get her bottom teeth straightened out. They are all crooked. Must be the English heritage part of her. The English are notorious for bad teeth.
Women do themselves no favors when they dish it out (and they do it in a number of ways - they *think* they’re being subtle), but they play the gender card when they can’t take it.
You’ll never get ‘street cred’ that way Fiona.
Fact is Carly played the gender card almost from the get-go. Trying to deflect criticism of her abysmal performance at HP; she couldn’t handle the very legitimate boardroom criticism either, from what I hear.
And incidentally, she does have a face that only a mother could love.
But that won't stop the MSM & GOPe from promoting the War on Women meme.
Which is exactly how the GOP establishment consultants play it...destroy the other Republicans first. Ironic that for all his hatred (justified) at the GOP e, he's doing exactly what they would tell him to do here.
so it’s okay is jesus trump does it because carly did it?
Maybe they’re both out of line? Ever think of that? Man enough to admit it?
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