My mother had senile dementia so I'm sort of used to the early signs now. And I've always thought that Donald Trump might be in the early phases of Alzheimers or Senile Dementia by the ways he does things. He's an intelligent man but the way he speaks to people who love and support him is as if they were all his children or something. It's like there are pieces missing there big time. Because if he really cared about them he would give them more than platitudes like you give to children when you don't want to tell them the full truth about just how bad the world really is.
WASHINGTON--
After winning the Michigan and Mississippi primaries Tuesday night,
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gave what might be the
most bizarre and unhinged press conference of his political career. The
candidate spoke at Trump ...
He compared himself to Abe Lincoln in a press conference after winning the Michigan and Mississippi primaries.
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WASHINGTON-- After winning the Michigan and Mississippi primaries
Tuesday night, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gave what
might be the most bizarre and unhinged press conference of his political
career.
The candidate spoke at Trump National Golf Club in Jupiter, Florida,
where he was flanked by piles of his company's products: Trump bottled
water, Trump wine and Trump steaks. After a brief speech touting his
victories -- "There's only one person who did well tonight: Donald
Trump," he said -- Trump veered into something like an informercial,
bragging about his successful business ventures and even hawking some of
his products.
"Trump steaks -- where are the steaks?" said the likely Republican nominee, waving his hand toward an actual pile of raw steaks at the event. "We have Trump steaks. By the way, if you want to take one, we'll charge you about 50 bucks a steak." (As the Daily Caller reported, the steaks weren't actually branded with Trump's logo.)
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Steaks, wine, champagne and water at Trump's event.
Trump became more narcissistic as the event wore on. A reporter asked him about a new television ad,
paid for by the conservative anti-Trump group the American Future Fund
PAC, that hits the candidate for his use of profanity and paints him as
un-presidential. The real estate mogul, who recently called Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) a "pussy" and addressed the size of his penis at a debate, seized the opportunity to compare himself to former President Abraham Lincoln.
"I can be more presidential than anybody, if I want to be," Trump
said. "More presidential than anybody, other than the great Abe Lincoln.
He was very presidential."
Trump said he wasn't offended by the negative ad -- he wants it to
keep running, because it shows a "certain degree of anger" that he
thinks is resonating with American voters.
"It shows a certain degree of, 'We're not gonna take it anymore from
all these countries that have been ripping us off and taking our jobs
and taking our money like we're a bunch of babies,'" Trump said. "Very,
very stupid babies."
Trump does seem to be resonating with voters-- particularly angry, white male ones.
A new Wall Street Journal poll shows that former Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton would beat Trump 51 to 38 percent in a general election,
but Trump would beat Clinton 53 to 35 percent among white men only. And
Trump is rapidly pulling ahead of his Republican rivals, despite intensifying efforts by the GOP establishment to
stop him. Trump won Hawaii's primary on Tuesday as well, though its
results were officially reported after the press conference.
Trump said the reason people like him is because he's not afraid to
be politically incorrect and say out loud what other people are
thinking. He had a perfect opportunity to demonstrate that quality at
the press conference Tuesday night, when an NBC reporter asked him what
parents should tell their children about the profane language he uses.
Instead of answering the question, Trump mercilessly mocked the
reporter.
"Oh, you’re so politically correct," he said. "You’re so beautiful.
Oh, look at you. Awwww. Aw, he’s so. Oh, I know. You’ve never heard a
little bad, a little off, language. I know, you’re so perfect. Aren’t
you perfect. Aren’t you just a perfect young man. Give me a break. You
know what? It’s stuff like that that people in this country are tired
of. It’s stuff like that." Editor's note: DonaldTrump is a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist,birther and bully who has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims -- 1.6 billion members of an entire religion -- from entering the U.S.
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