# 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:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**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, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-late-dale-winton-on-trump/812827/41 "2018-04-23T22:16:23Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > 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. Well, Trump himself [has described his hypothetical bravery in response to threat](https://www.gq.com/story/trump-run-school-shooting-rambo), and given his history of unvarnished truthiness we cannot but uncritically accept his claim as anything but gospel. Trump is like John Wayne, John McClane, and John the Baptist all rolled up in one. We can just start referring to him as “Don the John”, which curiously is how some of his favorite, uh, ladyfriends have referred to him for years. As for the fêted illustration of Trump by the o.p., it is just one more pearl in a string of “Oh, I’m not a Trump supporter but look at this supposed evidence of his undeniable greatness!” which feels not just a bit like a thin Monty Python skit stretched out over an entire series, especially with the reference to urinating prostitutes that Trump and his supporters like [Sean Hannity](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pfCLOmpMJPw) somehow just can’t avoid repeating as if they keep regurgitating that “food for thought”. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2018, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-late-dale-winton-on-trump/812827/42 "2018-04-23T22:32:59Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > 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. Agreed, but there’s this: > [@](#): > > I felt compassion for the man before he even uttered a single word. If Trump never uttered (or tweeted) a single word, I’d have a much higher opinion of him too. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2018, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-late-dale-winton-on-trump/812827/43 "2018-04-23T23:04:38Z")
> [@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. Literally what political correctness is, that some try to paint is as a negative is mind boggling. ---
**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 23, 2018, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-late-dale-winton-on-trump/812827/44 "2018-04-23T23:33:47Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > I don’t know who Dale Winton is/was… Dale Winton was “famous” in the UK back in the '90s for hosting the [_Supermarket Sweep_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B47NdPk_7VI&feature=youtu.be&t=66) game show on weekday afternoons when everybody was at work. He was also noteworthy for being both the orangest and the campest man on British television, and someone who spoke mainly in double-entendres. He seemed like a nice man, but he was clearly a very poor judge of character. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2018, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-late-dale-winton-on-trump/812827/45 "2018-04-23T23:46:30Z")
> [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](#): > > Dale Winton was “famous” in the UK back in the '90s for hosting the [_Supermarket Sweep_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B47NdPk_7VI&feature=youtu.be&t=66) game show on weekday afternoons when everybody was at work. He was also noteworthy for being both the orangest and the campest man on British television, and someone who spoke mainly in double-entendres. He was also in the movie of Trainspotting. ---
**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 24, 2018, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-late-dale-winton-on-trump/812827/46 "2018-04-24T00:06:56Z")
> [@Baron\_Greenback](#): > > He was also in the movie of Trainspotting. I had to google that. He has a cameo as a game show host on the TV when Ewan McGregor’s character’s going cold turkey. See it [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYAmt9WRoNo&feature=youtu.be&t=173), although it’s not very exciting [and contains scenes some viewers might find disturbing]. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-late-dale-winton-on-trump/812827/47 "2018-04-24T03:02:13Z")
> [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](#): > > He was also noteworthy for being both the orangest and the campest man on British television, and someone who spoke mainly in double-entendres. It’s just like calling to like. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-late-dale-winton-on-trump/812827/48 "2018-04-24T05:29:17Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > And yet he was right on several things: for instance the Left are bullies and you cannot bully Trump. > [@Czarcasm](#): > > You have unverified opinions, and you found someone about as qualified as you are who has the same unverified opinions. > > _Congratulations!_ “Unverified” is rather more kindness from you than is merited, don’t you think? _Verified to be counterfactual_ seems more accurate. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-late-dale-winton-on-trump/812827/49 "2018-04-24T15:04:42Z")
I’m looking forward to his meeting with Kim Jong Un. Both are masters of the “Give me what I want now and I’ll give you what you want later” school of negotiation and can brook no criticism of themselves. Who’s gonna blink first? ---
**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 24, 2018, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-late-dale-winton-on-trump/812827/50 "2018-04-24T15:27:42Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > Why? You do realise that he was hamming it up as a game show host? Really? Do you have a list of his more intellectual accomplishments to contrast that low-rent, lowbrow silliness? If not, we can assume that that was his best. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-late-dale-winton-on-trump/812827.md?page=2)