Donald Trump and the F-bomb
With scores of people across the South yet to be buried, with houses and schools and businesses and churches to be rebuilt, Donald Trump may be a strange topic to focus on. But perhaps the hazards of real life – flesh, metal and futures twisted by tumultuous winds of fate — are precisely the tools needed to illuminate the tin-foil nature of American politics.
Two days after Donald Trump claimed credit for President Barack Obama’s decision to release his Hawaiian birth certificate, the real estate mogul and prospective GOP candidate late Thursday night gave a speech laced with F-bombs to a Las Vegas crowd of several hundred Republicans, promising to subject rival nuclear powers to dialogue provided by Elmore Leonard.
As if he could treat Hu Jintao as if he were a Chinese version of Gary Busey.
You may find all of Trump’s incestuous recommendations, in their entirety, on YouTube. Here’s a cleaned up version from CBS:
Southerners know how to cuss, with a rhythm and color worthy of study by many New Yorkers. We do not shy away from expressing ourselves. But the best of us demand an elevated form of public dialogue. This is the land where Rhett earned his most grievous black mark for declaring — on the printed, public page — that he didn’t give a damn about Scarlett.
Martin Luther King Jr. surely employed locker-room language to privately rail against the indignities of segregation. But in public, he used G-rated words – powerful, biblical stuff — to bring down Jim Crow.
Unfortunately, what’s said in Las Vegas can’t always stay in Las Vegas. It must, given the networked nature of the world, come our way. Someone needs to tell me how Trump and his language – not just his choice of words, but his ideas, too — can play a constructive role in the Southern heart of the Republican party.
- By Jim Galloway, Political Insider
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117 comments Add your comment
Mona Williams
May 1st, 2011
4:39 pm
Trump’s got my vote…like him or lump him, the guy’s a winner who knows how to make money & is a $ucce$$ful bu$ine$$ man who tells it like it is
Mike
May 1st, 2011
5:16 pm
Donald Trump is nothing more than an egotistical lunatic. He is a disgrace to mankind.
Alabama Communist
May 1st, 2011
5:30 pm
Martin Luther King Jr. surely employed locker-room language to privately rail against the indignities of segregation* Jimbo
No doubt you have never been in a NFL locker-room at half time playing on a Team that is 0-15 as the season ends….
Last Man Standing
May 1st, 2011
5:46 pm
who cares who I am?:
cj:
Yes, I refer to him as Hussein. I could easily call him something else, but I prefer to keep it civil. Do I respect him? No, not at all.
valerie
May 1st, 2011
6:13 pm
jesus was known to drop a few g-dammits after a few bottles of vino.
well'swell
May 1st, 2011
7:33 pm
@LMS
It’s okay. We know what you like to call him. Just make sure you shove it rightfully after “Head” , followed by “In Charge”! YES! THE MOST POWERFUL MAN IN THE WORLD! NOTHING that dribbles from those pork little lips of yours can change that fact.
brian
May 1st, 2011
7:52 pm
Plain and simple Trump is the dictator this country needs to pull it from its knees. Get rid of the senate and congress give him sole power for 4 years. We will get improved service for all us citizens. Rule #1 if you dont drive an american car you pay 10% tariff to lower insurance costs for american car buyers.
Vote for Pedro
May 1st, 2011
8:40 pm
If you seen enough of the Apprentice you know The Donald likes his painkillers a little too much sometimes
RGB
May 1st, 2011
8:55 pm
THE MOST POWERFUL MAN IN THE WORLD IS NOTHING
SouthGeorgiaDawg
May 1st, 2011
8:58 pm
Not to drag up a non-important issue again accept to point out that the Republican’ts kept harping on it because they have no real answers to any of the serious problems facing the Nation. They have no idea how to fix the economy, when actually there are two items that would do wonders towards solving two of the problems. 1. Place requlations back on the energy fields, oil and natural gas. Take both of these items off the commodities market and institute a wind falls profit tax as Jimmy Carter did when OPEC called for an embargo in the late 70’s. This would stop the crippling of the American economy by greedy individuals and companies by freeing up moneies for other sectors of the economy. 2. Raise taxes on the wealthier individals and companies. This is the only ay government has of raising money to carry on the activities that every citizen believes is a must – defense, education, protection (fire and law enforcement), senior citizens and health and safety in our food, clothing, medicine and other everyday necessiaties. s any good businessman knows, when his/her businedss is going in the red, they do not cut incoming revenue and raise spending. And yes before you Republican’ts start, raising spending on military and corporate welfare is just as bad as giving to underserving individuals. As an accounting or bean counter as we are sometimes known, we see everyday what is happening to the little man and small business, not from the Democrats but from the Republican’ts who are only interested in helping the big become inflated at the expense of the masses. America was a great n ation as long as it wanted to help those who needed the help or protection because they fueled the economy not a select few inflated windbags.
jcwalker
May 1st, 2011
9:29 pm
Trump should know that what happens in Vegas actually does NOT stay in Vegas. Remember Tiger Woods?
Richard
May 1st, 2011
9:56 pm
Trump inherited 200 million but I see no one mention that his mismanagement of his money caused him to go bankrupt also. Oh we conveniently left that out of the financial genius braggard. Tell me one thing that great American has ever done for this country. Tell me how much of his fortune is clean. He wants to question Obama, but how many skeletons are hiding in his closet.
Trump/Sheen in 2012!
May 1st, 2011
10:29 pm
duh…. WINNING!
Ole Guy
May 1st, 2011
10:51 pm
Valerie, and many others, seem to delight in non-issues/inconsequential issues which, at the end of the day, mean next to nothing. At this particular point in time, I don’t believe a presidential contender’s Draft status is a big issue. I am not alltogether sure if, given Trump’s age, the issue even exists. Given that he was born way way after the Draft was abolished, your remark, Val, exemplifies the empty-headed (I won’t even call them remarks) blatherings which seem to pop out of the woodwork of bafoons, idiots, and people who really have nothing remotely resembling constructive remarks. Sometimes, Val, it is far better to remain silent than to blab out and remove all doubt.
Rich, you seem to be overlooking one small item: the 200 million which Trump (allegedly) mismanaged was HIS, repeat, HIS to mismanage…NOT public monies but HIS. Be that as it may, Rich, no one can dispute the fact that the mans got the “political gamesmanship” to step out and do what needs doing. Since the Kennedy administration, we have seen, primarily, “fireman leadership. Rather than take proactive measures in warding off the potential “fires” within society (fire prevention), we have seen administration after administration fighting fires which, with well-thought out policies, could have been prevented. I believe Trump has that experience to lay the groundwork for success, both domestic and on the global arena.
The REAL GodHatesTrash, Superstar
May 2nd, 2011
6:58 am
This clown is one of the biggest fooktards in the world. No wonder the GOPers love him.
Bhorsoft
May 2nd, 2011
12:56 pm
The man is the 21st Century version of P.T. Barnum — and he knows “there is a sucker born every minute.”
TMan
May 4th, 2011
8:40 am
Donald Trump is a disgusting, arrogant, incompetent, vulgar person. If the nation even considers electing him it will show the depths to which we have fallen morally.
Who could imagine just a few years ago a candidate for president using the F-bomb in a speech!
I would vote for the Democrat who ran against him if he were the Republican nominee. I’ve never voted Democrat but I’d do so if their candidate were a decent person. Trump makes the abortion supporting President Obama look like a choir boy.