# Donald Trump's 2016 General Election Campaign **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [May 4, 2016, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901 "2016-05-04T02:37:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 45
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2016, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/881 "2016-06-05T17:46:03Z")
I will add The Notes from James Fallows to my bookmarks. > **[Trump Time Capsule](https://www.theatlantic.com/category/the-daily-trump/)** > [@](#): > > Jake Tapper’s full interview with Donald Trump, aired today, is an important part of the time-capsule process, of recording what was known about the presumptive GOP nominee as the party lined up behind him. But let me point out one very brief segment. > > Trump has claimed that he, unlike Hillary Clinton, was against the Iraq war. Tapper, to his great credit says, What’s the evidence for that? > [@](#): > > “I haven’t been asked that question before,” Trump says, of Tapper’s request for proof that he was against the war before it started going bad. “Nobody’s said that to me before.” > > That is flatly, completely, and 100% untrue. > > It’s a big, fat, easily disprovable lie. It’s hardly the most consequential thing he has gotten wrong, but in its baldness it is amazing. > > * * * > > Back in February, at a Town Hall on this same CNN network, Anderson Cooper asked Trump about a 2002 interview with Howard Stern (!) in which he appeared to support the war. You can see it here. > [@](#): > > Did Trump not remember? Does he assume no one else would? Does he not even recognize the contradiction between what he’s just told Tapper and what the tapes with Cooper reveal? Does he think that if he believes what he’s saying, everyone else will too? > > None of these explanations, or others, is reassuring. The point for now is that the man the GOP is lining up to support calmly told a flat-out lie he should have known would be trivially easy to disprove, and didn’t seemed fazed a bit. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2016, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/882 "2016-06-05T18:00:04Z")
Apologies if this has already been posted: Trump denies having thin skin. [His skin is strong.](https://youtu.be/M9yZL8pTPbE) ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2016, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/883 "2016-06-05T18:25:00Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > Apologies if this has already been posted: Trump denies having thin skin. [His skin is strong.](https://youtu.be/M9yZL8pTPbE) Well that settles that! ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2016, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/884 "2016-06-05T18:55:54Z")
Strong - and thick! ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2016, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/885 "2016-06-05T19:15:29Z")
And it’s so hard, you have no idea. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2016, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/886 "2016-06-05T19:20:47Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Trump says Muslim judges also [might not be fair to him](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-muslim-judge_us_57542cb6e4b0ed593f14ad78): Trump should just announce that he thinks all judges should be banned from the US. That way, he can accuse every one of them of not being fair to him. Case closed! ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2016, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/887 "2016-06-05T19:22:44Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > Apologies if this has already been posted: Trump denies having thin skin. [His skin is strong.](https://youtu.be/M9yZL8pTPbE) Everyone knows oranges have strong skins. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2016, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/888 "2016-06-05T19:23:57Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > Trump should just announce that he thinks all judges should be banned from the US. That way, he can accuse every one of them of not being fair to him. Case closed! Brilliant! And, of course, add, for good measure, that all _IRS auditors_ should be banned from the US! Now they can’t touch him! ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2016, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/889 "2016-06-05T19:32:55Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Brilliant! And, of course, add, for good measure, that all _IRS auditors_ should be banned from the US! Now they can’t touch him! And all of the voters in the US should be banned from the country. Now everyone HAS to vote for him, other wise they’re biased against him! ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2016, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/890 "2016-06-05T19:44:26Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > And all of the voters in the US should be banned from the country. Now everyone HAS to vote for him, other wise they’re biased against him! Odds that Trump has already thought of this…??? Certainly it would be easier to get a table at 21 Club, if all the hoi polloi has been expelled. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2016, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/891 "2016-06-05T19:54:20Z")
[Senate Majority Head Coward won’t say if Trump’s judge attack was racist](http://edition.cnn.com/2016/06/05/politics/mitch-mcconnell-donald-trump-judge-racist/index.html) > [@](#): > > Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell refused three times to say Sunday whether Donald Trump’s attacks on a Latino judge were racist. > Instead, in an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” the Kentucky Republican would only say he “couldn’t disagree more” with Trump’s comments. I’ll bet his spine is a cheap knock-off made in China. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2016, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/892 "2016-06-05T20:10:49Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > [Senate Majority Head Coward won’t say if Trump’s judge attack was racist](http://edition.cnn.com/2016/06/05/politics/mitch-mcconnell-donald-trump-judge-racist/index.html) > > I’ll bet his spine is a cheap knock-off made in China. A chocolate eclair has more spine than McConnell. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2016, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/893 "2016-06-05T21:01:38Z")
Pointing out that a Hispanic judge may have fallen prey to the myth that attacking illegal immigration = racism against all Mexicans/Hispanics and that said judge might therefore be biased against him is not racism. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2016, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/894 "2016-06-05T21:17:56Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > Pointing out that a Hispanic judge may have fallen prey to the myth that attacking illegal immigration = racism against all Mexicans/Hispanics and that said judge might therefore be biased against him is not racism. There’s a difference between favoring border security and stating that Mexico sends us their rapists, their drug dealers, their criminals. I am sure that the judge has handled cases involving flaming racist assholes before and will give Trump as fair a trial as he would anyone else. What Trump is attacking is the judge’s personal integrity and ginning up anti-Hispanic fever among his deranged supporters. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2016, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/895 "2016-06-05T21:26:05Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > Pointing out that a Hispanic judge may have fallen prey to the myth that attacking illegal immigration = racism against all Mexicans/Hispanics and that said judge might therefore be biased against him is not racism. Don has questioned a federal judge’s integrity based on his ethnicity. He’s called him “a Mexican” repeatedly, even though it’s been pointed out to him repeatedly that the judge is an American, born and raised in Indiana. No one’s calling Don “a German,” so why is Don calling this guy “a Mexican?” It couldn’t be to gin up anti-Mexican/anti-Latino sentiment, right? What if a black candidate were using loaded language to gin up anti-white sentiment? Would that be acceptable to you, or would you consider it racist? ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2016, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/896 "2016-06-05T21:29:43Z")
> [@MacCat](#): > > Cat got your tongue Donald? Haven’t heard but a few _absolutely pathetic_ tweets since Thursday, and after a year of daily bile, the silence is deafening. He must be preparing a _yuuuge_ rebuttal, with all the best words, and no teleprompter, of course. > > Reality is setting in. Having to deal with an eviscerating Dem instead of the sad and tremulous GOPer competition, _and_ the humiliated Media ready to turn on the wounded and floundering huckster, I want to see and hear him as he circles the bowl, taking the GOP with him. > > The Emperor is naked. You want to know who has shut up? Paul Ryan - one tweet since the endorsement, about Ali, when he was averaging about 2 a day prior. (@Pryan, not @SpeakerRyan, which is helmed by an intern) ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2016, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/897 "2016-06-05T21:33:10Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > Pointing out that a Hispanic judge may have fallen prey to the myth that attacking illegal immigration = racism against all Mexicans/Hispanics and that said judge might therefore be biased against him is not racism. No, but saying that a Mexican judge (FTR, he’s an American of Mexican descent) can’t do his job as a judge because of his ethnicity is racist – and that’s what Donald said. He also denied that saying it is racist. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2016, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/898 "2016-06-05T21:37:26Z")
And he said it about any Muslims who may be judges, and in time, somebody will get him to say the same about female judges, black judges, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2016, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/899 "2016-06-05T21:38:49Z")
[Ben Stein is emblematic of what is wrong with the modern Republican Party.](https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jun/04/ben-stein-interview-donald-trump-economics) Stein says about Trump: "I don’t think Trump knows a goddamn thing about economics’ " When asked how the economy would do under Trump, Stein says "It would get much worse. In terms, it would be a disaster. Trade is very important. " But he says he will vote for Trump anyway. To hell with how he’ll damage the country. Why? "I’ll vote for him, by the way. I’ll vote for him because I think he does personify a kind of national pride which I think has been lacking in the Obama days " So basically, Stein is wiling to vote for someone who he is sure will seriously damage the economy, because “America, Yay!” That’s it. That’s all that matters. Good God. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2016, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/900 "2016-06-05T21:40:40Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > You want to know who has shut up? Paul Ryan - one tweet since the endorsement, about Ali, when he was averaging about 2 a day prior. (@Pryan, not @SpeakerRyan, which is helmed by an intern) Well, Ryan is an Irishman, and so he is biased against Trump. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901.md?page=44) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901.md?page=46)