Trump called her Miss Piggy and Miss Housekeeping
Then there’s Trump’s attitude to women.
At the end of Monday night’s presidential debate, Hillary Clinton accused Donald Trump of taunting one of his former Miss Universe contestants about her weight.
Clinton said the Republican nominee’s criticisms of Alicia Machado, a Venezuelan who won the Miss Universe contest in 1996, was “one of the worst things he said” about women. “He called this woman Miss Piggy. Then he called her Miss Housekeeping because she was Latina.”
It’s a wonder he didn’t make her clean his toilets.
While Trump appeared to dispute Clinton’s accusation on the debate stage, he called into Fox and Friends Tuesday morning and once again called Machado fat.
“I know that person. That person was a Miss Universe person,” Trump told the Fox News morning show. “And she was the worst we ever had, the worst, the absolute worst, she was impossible,” he said. “She gained a massive amount of weight, and it was a real problem. We had a real problem. Not only that, her attitude.”
Trump had bought the Miss Universe pageant or contest or whatever it is, so he apparently considered Alicia Machado his property too.
With his past statements about Machado playing into critiques Clinton wanted to make at Monday night’s high-profile debate, the Clinton campaign was quick to pounce. An hour after the debate ended, her campaign tweeted a two-minute video about Machado’s experience with Trump.
“He was very overwhelming. I was very scared of him,” she says in Spanish. “He’d yell at me all the time. He’d tell me ‘you look ugly’ or ‘you look fat.’ Sometimes he’d ‘play’ with me and say ‘Hello Miss Piggy, hello Miss Housekeeping.’ “
https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/780611407221960704
Something else she says in that video is that she did a lot of commercials as Miss Universe, and her contract said she got ten percent of the revenue. She never got it. So she’s yet another employee stiffed by Trump the billionaire. Yeah, let’s make that guy president.
Trump seems to have the identical view of women that you would find Paul Elam or Roosh V expressing. Too fat? Who gets to decide? Apparently Trump thinks he’s the arbiter of other people’s bodies.
We all think things that are unpleasant or unfair. We can’t help it. But decent people learn when to keep their unpleasant or unfair thoughts to themselves. I don’t understand people who never learned to do this. Trump thinks this contestant was fat and unattractive. That’s not very kind. But to say it out loud? To repeat it? To believe so strongly in your innate superiority that even your prejudices and insults deserve to be shared with the world? To believe that your outbursts will automatically make people side with you?
Sure, Ben. Most of us learn that in grade school. But Trump functions like a 3 year old – all id. The world revolves around him, and he’s supposed to get what he wants. When he doesn’t get it, he throws a tantrum. And meanwhile, he blurts out whatever he’s thinking, while the rest of us, even if we were to agree with him (and I think most of us don’t) would keep quiet. That doesn’t make us dishonest. Most of the things we think don’t really need to be said.