# Trump's Republican primary campaign **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [September 3, 2015, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828 "2015-09-03T18:00:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 193
**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:** [April 19, 2016, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828/3845 "2016-04-19T21:43:22Z")
> [@DiggitCamara](#): > > Pretty ugly video. Looks like it was produced by Jimmy McGill. ---
**Author:** ![DiggitCamara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df788c/32.png) [@DiggitCamara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiggitCamara)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2016, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828/3846 "2016-04-19T23:05:40Z")
> [@Hank\_Beecher](#): > > You must have influenced by Carl Rove and Oliver Drumpf in order to have such a backward and outdated viewpoint. um… what? Was that an attempt to joke? If so, please use emojis. ---
**Author:** ![DiggitCamara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df788c/32.png) [@DiggitCamara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiggitCamara)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2016, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828/3847 "2016-04-19T23:07:00Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Looks like it was produced by Jimmy McGill. [The lawyer?](http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/Saul_Goodman) ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2016, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828/3848 "2016-04-19T23:39:16Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > What do you call making fun of “Drumpf”? > > And I bet you’ve heard people making fun of how ugly German sounds. And again, as someone who was born with a difficult to spell and pronounce German name, I’ve been on the receiving end of it. Okay, I am going to fess up a bit here because I’m just that kind of conscientious, scrupulously honest person (modest as hell, too!). 😉 Not long after the stuff I posted earlier (when I really did consciously believe what I was saying), my wife came in the room and I did something that I just realized I do all the time without really thinking about it. I responded to something she said with “_Ja, Fraulein Schvitzendorfer?_” (The next time, it might be “_Jawhol, Fraulein Horgenschlieber_”: it changes each time into some random “German” name I make up.) So, yeah: “German” sounds funny, sometimes. (Other times, you have names like “Meyer”, “Becker”, and “Bauer”, that aren’t funny at all.) But I just don’t think this is some giant outrage. To compare it with making fun of Chinese names just doesn’t scan. Hundreds of years ago, Vikings conquered a lot of Northern Europe and beyond. Then their descendants conquered farther and wider (the British Empire in particular, plus of course WWII.) The Germanic countries still have very strong economies today, and we are talking about pale-skinned, blue-eyed people who have been treated as the pop culture ideal until very recently. I don’t think we need to cry too much for them. I mean, do you also get exercised over the Swedish Chef on _The Muppet Show_? ---
**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:** [April 20, 2016, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828/3849 "2016-04-20T01:09:15Z")
> [@DiggitCamara](#): > > [The lawyer?](http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/Saul_Goodman) That’s the guy. "Gimme Donald!" ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828/3850 "2016-04-20T01:14:54Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > Hundreds of years ago, Vikings conquered a lot of Northern Europe and beyond. Then their descendants conquered farther and wider (the British Empire in particular, plus of course WWII.) The Germanic countries still have very strong economies today, and we are talking about pale-skinned, blue-eyed people who have been treated as the pop culture ideal until very recently. I don’t think we need to cry too much for them. What do the Vikings have to do with this? ---
**Author:** ![Hank\_Beecher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hank_beecher/32/7275_2.png) [@Hank\_Beecher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hank_Beecher)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828/3851 "2016-04-20T01:20:31Z")
Slacker is claiming that Germans have Viking privilege, and are thus ineligible for the victim status that would be required for Drumpf to be a tasteless, bigoted slur. ---
**Author:** ![truthSeeker2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7cd45c/32.png) [@truthSeeker2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/truthSeeker2)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828/3852 "2016-04-20T01:47:10Z")
Yessss! Now please don’t give any crazy bad comment till June and then till November. ---
**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:** [April 20, 2016, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828/3853 "2016-04-20T01:49:45Z")
> [@truthSeeker2](#): > > Yessss! Now please don’t give any crazy bad comment till June and then till November. The Donald is incapable of such restraint. ---
**Author:** ![truthSeeker2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7cd45c/32.png) [@truthSeeker2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/truthSeeker2)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828/3854 "2016-04-20T02:10:09Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > The Donald is incapable of such restraint. 2 bad comments, 1 on abortions, 1 on global warming. Rest of whatever I heard seems OK in my book. (I am not an American but I don’t mind anti-immgration comments) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ace)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828/3855 "2016-04-20T02:12:56Z")
I think his campaign may have hit on the solution: let him speak for a few minutes and then whisk him off the stage. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828/3856 "2016-04-20T02:27:44Z")
> [@truthSeeker2](#): > > 2 bad comments, 1 on abortions, 1 on global warming. Rest of whatever I heard seems OK in my book. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828/3857 "2016-04-20T04:01:05Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > I’m watching MSNBC. They just had a reporter talking to a poll worker in Queens. She was telling him that they have lots of registered Democrats coming in and asking to vote for Trump, which of course they can’t do since it’s a closed primary. When told that they can’t vote for Trump, most of them don’t want to vote for anybody. OTOH, lots of independents, not registered as either Dems or Repubs, would like to vote in the primary for Trump, or Hillary, or Bernie, but they can’t vote for anyone. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828/3858 "2016-04-20T07:18:25Z")
Good! Nice to see a big state take party membership seriously. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828/3859 "2016-04-20T18:44:20Z")
One of Trump’s foreign policy advisers, Joseph Schmitz, is involved in a lawsuit in Montana against two Native American tribes, claiming they are conspiring with Turkey to develop nuclear weapons in order to spread a Turkish form of Islam. > **[Trump's foreign policy advisor thinks Turkey is conspiring with Native...](https://www.rawstory.com/2016/04/trumps-foreign-policy-advisor-thinks-turkey-is-conspiring-with-native-americans-to-build-nukes/)** > > One of Donald Trump's top foreign policy advisors is trying to wrest control of a Montana dam from two Native American tribes as part of a bizarre anti-Muslim campaign.Joseph Schmitz, an attorney and former Pentagon inspector general, was tapped as... ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828/3860 "2016-04-20T18:47:16Z")
[Racist former New York gubernatorial candidate Carl Palladino used racial slurs against President Obama while celebrating Trump’s New York victory](http://www.rawstory.com/2016/04/trump-surrogate-celebrates-new-york-victory-by-using-racist-raccoon-slur-against-obama/)(Palladino stood right behind Trump at his victory speech last night). ---
**Author:** ![Hank\_Beecher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hank_beecher/32/7275_2.png) [@Hank\_Beecher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hank_Beecher)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828/3861 "2016-04-20T18:56:41Z")
“Coon” is the slur. “Racoon” is an animal well known to many people for ending up where it shouldn’t be. I have never heard “racoon” used as a racial slur. He couldn’t use “rat”, that nickname belongs to Cruz. [I have heard it used as a joke, though.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHbg7te2D98) ---
**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:** [April 20, 2016, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828/3862 "2016-04-20T19:00:44Z")
> [@Hank\_Beecher](#): > > “Coon” is the slur. > > “Racoon” is an animal well known to many people for ending up where it shouldn’t be. > > **I have never heard “racoon” used as a racial slur.** He couldn’t use “rat”, that nickname belongs to Cruz. > > [I have heard it used as a joke, though.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHbg7te2D98) Where do you think “coon” came from? ---
**Author:** ![Hank\_Beecher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hank_beecher/32/7275_2.png) [@Hank\_Beecher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hank_Beecher)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828/3863 "2016-04-20T19:06:04Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Where do you think “coon” came from? From the word raccoon. Just like the word pickininny came from the Portuguese word for small. That doesn’t mean every reference to a black person as small has a racial dimension. The alteration of the original term is what identifies it as a slur. ---
**Author:** ![Hank\_Beecher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hank_beecher/32/7275_2.png) [@Hank\_Beecher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hank_Beecher)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828/3864 "2016-04-20T19:07:09Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > One of Trump’s foreign policy advisers, Joseph Schmitz, is involved in a lawsuit in Montana against two Native American tribes, claiming they are conspiring with Turkey to develop nuclear weapons in order to spread a Turkish form of Islam. > > [Trump's foreign policy advisor thinks Turkey is conspiring with Native Americans to build nukes](http://www.rawstory.com/2016/04/trumps-foreign-policy-advisor-thinks-turkey-is-conspiring-with-native-americans-to-build-nukes/) [QUOTE=rawstory] Trump’s anti-Muslims views are well known, but he doesn’t much like Native Americans, either. [/QUOTE] Yeah, real good neutral source :rolleyes: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828.md?page=192) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828.md?page=194)