# The late Dale Winton on Trump **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 20, 2018, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-late-dale-winton-on-trump/812827 "2018-04-20T22:54:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Majestic\_Lee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Majestic\_Lee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Majestic_Lee)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2018, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-late-dale-winton-on-trump/812827/21 "2018-04-21T22:12:55Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > “His attack on political correctness is reason enough, but that’s still not it.” > > Donald Trump did not attack “political correctness”. Trump attacked common decency, humanity, and respect. Ditto… ---
**Author:** ![Daffyd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daffyd/32/8923_2.png) [@Daffyd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daffyd)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2018, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-late-dale-winton-on-trump/812827/22 "2018-04-22T02:50:49Z")
What makes this ridiculous screed even worse is that Dale Winton was a Gay man. Actually, that should read “self-hating Gay man”… ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2018, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-late-dale-winton-on-trump/812827/23 "2018-04-22T03:12:52Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > Food for thought. More like rancid junk food for idiots. ---
**Author:** ![Covfefe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ee7513/32.png) [@Covfefe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covfefe)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2018, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-late-dale-winton-on-trump/812827/24 "2018-04-22T03:40:01Z")
I was somehow expecting better (should’ve checked the origin of the link first). Everything’s a game, a grand illusion for some. ---
**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2018, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-late-dale-winton-on-trump/812827/25 "2018-04-22T03:51:58Z")
Listening to the MAGAs is arguably even more surreal than the election was. Any single tweet of trump’s you can find something petulent, many things self-serving, and something factually untrue. Let alone listening to what he actually says off the cuff. Just once I want to listen to Trump speak with one of his supporters watching beside me. What will they say when I ask “You hear that? You understand how moronic and childish that is, and how it even contradicts what he said yesterday, right?” ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2018, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-late-dale-winton-on-trump/812827/26 "2018-04-22T04:01:38Z")
You’ve reposted a political opinion piece from… _Dale Winton!?_ As _food for thought?!_ I’ve literally been chuckling away for several minutes now. I stop and then suddenly I remember that someone’s posted a political opinion piece by Dale “Supermarket Sweep” Winton as the O.P. of a thread, as if its some sort of pearl of wisdom or launchpad for debate, and then I start chuckling again. I’m not seeing anything new or insightful in what he says, anyway. I guess we can at least now add Dale Winton to the long list of “celebs” that have supported Trump. ---
**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2018, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-late-dale-winton-on-trump/812827/27 "2018-04-22T07:36:03Z")
FYI; Dale Winton only became _the late_ Dale Winton a few days ago. So that’s why the article got republished: they scoured his body of work for any words of wisdom. What a tragedy that this was the best. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2018, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-late-dale-winton-on-trump/812827/28 "2018-04-22T08:31:45Z")
And yet he was right on several things: for instance the Left are bullies and you cannot bully Trump. ---
**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2018, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-late-dale-winton-on-trump/812827/29 "2018-04-22T09:26:43Z")
Even if both those things were true (and they aren’t), the fact that some people are trying to defend the president in those terms shows just how shitty things have got. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2018, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-late-dale-winton-on-trump/812827/30 "2018-04-22T12:33:54Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > And yet he was right on several things: for instance the Left are bullies and you cannot bully Trump. Then why does he cry like a whining little bitch every time Mueller’s investigation implicates another of his close associates? The fact that he lashes out doesn’t mean he can’t be bullied. In fact I believe he can be easily bullied & manipulated. There are people in his orbit that have tons of dirt on him, it seems. That he has no capacity for shame or self-awareness does not mean he cannot be punished. It just means that when it does happen, in whatever form, the wreckage will be a huge public spectacle. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2018, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-late-dale-winton-on-trump/812827/31 "2018-04-22T12:55:13Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > And yet he was right on several things: for instance the Left are bullies and you cannot bully Trump. I don’t agree that either of those is true. Of more relevance is that Trump is a bully. A bully towards anyone who disagrees with him, including regular citizens. To say he’s a disgrace to the office of the president would be an understatement. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2018, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-late-dale-winton-on-trump/812827/32 "2018-04-22T13:26:30Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > I don’t agree that either of those is true. Of more relevance is that Trump is a bully. A bully towards anyone who disagrees with him, including regular citizens. To say he’s a disgrace to the office of the president would be an understatement. The one thing that I think Trump was absolutely right about is this: If you tell people a lie, no matter how egregious, enough/many/most will believe it. It’s the single iota of “truth” on which his entire life is built. ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2018, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-late-dale-winton-on-trump/812827/33 "2018-04-22T14:12:02Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > And yet he was right on several things: for instance the Left are bullies… Really? Have you never looked at a deplorable’s or an alt-right troll’s twitter feed? Bullying and hating on people is their way of life. These people voted Trump into power precisely _because_ he’s a bully. > [@Quartz](#): > > …and you cannot bully Trump. Trump’s a bit paradoxical in that he’s probably the most thin-skinned leader the Western world has seen in modern times, but he also has absolutely no sense of embarrassment or shame. Seriously, posting in earnest the political opinion of Dale Winton - _Dale Winton!_ - for serious discussion is farcical, and something that could come straight out of _Brass Eye_ or _The Onion_. Like when **Clothahump** recently complained about critics of Trump on these boards having no self-control. Critics of _Trump!_ ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2018, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-late-dale-winton-on-trump/812827/34 "2018-04-22T16:10:47Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > And yet he was right on several things: for instance the Left are bullies and you cannot bully Trump. You have unverified opinions, and you found someone about as qualified as you are who has the same unverified opinions. _Congratulations!_ ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2018, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-late-dale-winton-on-trump/812827/35 "2018-04-22T16:23:46Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > It’s the basic way a con works. The con man convinces you that you’re part of the con; the two of you are working together to rip off some other guy. You knows a con is occurring but you think you’re on the inside. But you’re the sucker. The other guy who is supposedly the victim is another con man and the two of them are working together to rip you off. > > Trump is the con man and Trump voters are the suckers. They think Trump is on their side and they’re working together to stick it to somebody else. But Trump is playing them. A [perfect story](https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/trump-lied-to-me-about-his-wealth-to-get-onto-the-forbes-400-here-are-the-tapes/2018/04/20/ac762b08-4287-11e8-8569-26fda6b404c7_story.html?utm_term=.3c89db57d8a4) of the conman at work, complete with tape recordings of him running the scam. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2018, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-late-dale-winton-on-trump/812827/36 "2018-04-23T14:35:44Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > And yet he was right on several things: for instance the Left are bullies and you cannot bully Trump. Did Noam Chomsky give you a swirly? Did Bernie Sanders stomp on your shoe box diorama? Was the “KICK ME” sign on your back in the handwriting of Howard Zinn? Show me on the Eugene V. Debs doll where the bad leftist hurt you. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2018, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-late-dale-winton-on-trump/812827/37 "2018-04-23T17:57:07Z")
> [@beowulff](#): > > Thanks, but I’ll go hungry. Have a Trump Steak, straight from [The Sharper Image online store](https://www.sharperimage.com/si/view/product/Trump+Steaks/888888). Psyche! You can’t; the brand went out of business two months after they started selling them. Yet more evidence of Trump’s astonishing business acumen. > [@QuickSilver](#): > > Then why does he cry like a whining little bitch every time Mueller’s investigation implicates another of his close associates? The fact that he lashes out doesn’t mean he can’t be bullied. Heck, [he got bullied by a small German woman with a bowl cut and pouted like a three year old about it](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=B3eFZMvNS1U&t=32s). Gott, that never gets old! Between that and [Trump being attacked by a bald eagle](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o7_OWYrLVOU), these pretty much sums up Trump in a nutshell. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2018, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-late-dale-winton-on-trump/812827/38 "2018-04-23T18:28:43Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > Have a Trump Steak, straight from [The Sharper Image online store](https://www.sharperimage.com/si/view/product/Trump+Steaks/888888). Out of curiosity, is the slogan of The Sharper Image still, “SkyMall for Those Afraid to Fly?” ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2018, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-late-dale-winton-on-trump/812827/39 "2018-04-23T21:31:37Z")
> [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](#): > > Seriously, posting in earnest the political opinion of Dale Winton - _Dale Winton!_ - for serious discussion is farcical, Why? You do realise that he was hamming it up as a game show host? ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2018, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-late-dale-winton-on-trump/812827/40 "2018-04-23T21:43:15Z")
I don’t know who Dale Winton is/was, but anybody that describes Donald Trump as fearless obviously doesn’t know his ass from a hole in the ground. The opinions of such a fool are not food for thought, they are waste for flushing. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-late-dale-winton-on-trump/812827.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-late-dale-winton-on-trump/812827.md?page=3)