by Pa Rock
Citizen Journalist
Donald Trump has a penchant for name-calling and belittling people, especially women. He is so well known for his dismissive and often vulgar attitude toward women that American television actress Meghan Markle referred to him as "divisive" and "misogynistic" on a television interview program back in 2016 when Trump was running for president.
That would have been about the time that Donald Trump, a presidential candidate, shocked the nation by referring to his opponent, Hillary Clinton as "such a nasty woman" in their third televised debate. Trump's heated remark was one of the most unpresidential ever uttered in front of a national audience. In the years since that offensive exclamation, Trump has continued to refer to women who are critical of him as "nasty." He has used the term at least twice in relation to Senator Kamala Harris of California, and he also referred to Carmen Yulin Cruz, the Mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico, and a fierce Trump critic, as "nasty."
Trump has also called his former aid, Omarosa Manigualt as a "dog" and referred to comedienne and actress Rosie O'Donnell as a "pig." Clearly Meghan Markle's labeling of Donald Trump as a misogynist was spot-on.
But that was then, 2016, and now things have changed. Trump has been elected to a job that allows him to play unlimited golf, and Miss Markle married well and is now the Duchess of Sussex and the wife of the man who is sixth in line to the British throne. Trump is just days away from a state visit to Great Britain where he will reportedly be dragging his entire family along, like so many Clampetts, to meet the British royalty. And those royals, who liked Obama but only tolerate Trump, will do their civic duty and meet with Trump at various events - all of the royals save one. The Duchess of Sussex has declined to hobnob with the Trump's thanks to her handy excuse of having just delivered a child - a boy who is seventh in line to the British throne.
(And that probably works just fine for the Clampetts . . . er . . Trumps because the Duchess of Sussex is just an American, after all, and she is biracial, with a black mother, and clearly not the sort of individual that any Trump would run with under other circumstances.)
But Donald Trump, being Donald Trump, took an already strained situation and managed to make it worse.
A reporter from a British tabloid, The Sun, interviewed Donald Trump this past week regarding his upcoming state visit to Great Britain, and the reporter took that opportunity to needle Trump about the Duchess calling his a misogynist two years ago when she was only a lowly television actress. Trump was royally baited - and he bit!
After being informed of Markle's remark, Trump said that he had not heard that before - and then added: "I didn't know she was nasty." He then blathered on about he hoped she was okay and that he was sure she would do "excellently" as a royal. Yaddah, yaddah, yaddah. But he did use the word "nasty" in direct reference to the wife of Prince Harry.
The Duchess of Sussex is right not to meet with Trump, but she should set the baby excuse aside and be more honest. Trump is divisive and misogynistic, - just as she noted three years ago - and he constantly projects his own bad qualities onto others by calling them names like dog, and pig, and nasty.
Duchess Meghan should turn her newly-minted royal nose up at Trump and his family of hillbillies as they swoop in on Britain - and so should the rest of the royal family. An insult to one should be regarded as an affront to all.
Donald Trump is a such a nasty man, and the British royal family - and particularly Prince Harry - should acknowledge that by refusing to associate with him in any manner whatsoever during the upcoming visit.
The British government should, in fact, cancel the visit.
Citizen Journalist
Donald Trump has a penchant for name-calling and belittling people, especially women. He is so well known for his dismissive and often vulgar attitude toward women that American television actress Meghan Markle referred to him as "divisive" and "misogynistic" on a television interview program back in 2016 when Trump was running for president.
That would have been about the time that Donald Trump, a presidential candidate, shocked the nation by referring to his opponent, Hillary Clinton as "such a nasty woman" in their third televised debate. Trump's heated remark was one of the most unpresidential ever uttered in front of a national audience. In the years since that offensive exclamation, Trump has continued to refer to women who are critical of him as "nasty." He has used the term at least twice in relation to Senator Kamala Harris of California, and he also referred to Carmen Yulin Cruz, the Mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico, and a fierce Trump critic, as "nasty."
Trump has also called his former aid, Omarosa Manigualt as a "dog" and referred to comedienne and actress Rosie O'Donnell as a "pig." Clearly Meghan Markle's labeling of Donald Trump as a misogynist was spot-on.
But that was then, 2016, and now things have changed. Trump has been elected to a job that allows him to play unlimited golf, and Miss Markle married well and is now the Duchess of Sussex and the wife of the man who is sixth in line to the British throne. Trump is just days away from a state visit to Great Britain where he will reportedly be dragging his entire family along, like so many Clampetts, to meet the British royalty. And those royals, who liked Obama but only tolerate Trump, will do their civic duty and meet with Trump at various events - all of the royals save one. The Duchess of Sussex has declined to hobnob with the Trump's thanks to her handy excuse of having just delivered a child - a boy who is seventh in line to the British throne.
(And that probably works just fine for the Clampetts . . . er . . Trumps because the Duchess of Sussex is just an American, after all, and she is biracial, with a black mother, and clearly not the sort of individual that any Trump would run with under other circumstances.)
But Donald Trump, being Donald Trump, took an already strained situation and managed to make it worse.
A reporter from a British tabloid, The Sun, interviewed Donald Trump this past week regarding his upcoming state visit to Great Britain, and the reporter took that opportunity to needle Trump about the Duchess calling his a misogynist two years ago when she was only a lowly television actress. Trump was royally baited - and he bit!
After being informed of Markle's remark, Trump said that he had not heard that before - and then added: "I didn't know she was nasty." He then blathered on about he hoped she was okay and that he was sure she would do "excellently" as a royal. Yaddah, yaddah, yaddah. But he did use the word "nasty" in direct reference to the wife of Prince Harry.
The Duchess of Sussex is right not to meet with Trump, but she should set the baby excuse aside and be more honest. Trump is divisive and misogynistic, - just as she noted three years ago - and he constantly projects his own bad qualities onto others by calling them names like dog, and pig, and nasty.
Duchess Meghan should turn her newly-minted royal nose up at Trump and his family of hillbillies as they swoop in on Britain - and so should the rest of the royal family. An insult to one should be regarded as an affront to all.
Donald Trump is a such a nasty man, and the British royal family - and particularly Prince Harry - should acknowledge that by refusing to associate with him in any manner whatsoever during the upcoming visit.
The British government should, in fact, cancel the visit.
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