President Bone Spurs - Turned Away in Disgust While a Man Was Bleeding to Death in Front of Him

[kpete]

from the unearthed Stern-Trump interviews, however, came during a chat on July 16, 2008.

“I was at Mar-a-Lago and we had this incredible ball, the Red Cross Ball, in Palm Beach, Florida. And we had the Marines. And the Marines were there, and it was terrible because all these rich people, they’re there to support the Marines, but they’re really there to get their picture in the Palm Beach Post… so you have all these really rich people, and a man, about 80 years old—very wealthy man, a lot of people didn’t like him—he fell off the stage.

“So what happens is, this guy falls off right on his face, hits his head, and I thought he died. And you know what I did? I said, ‘Oh my God, that’s disgusting,’ and I turned away.

"I couldn’t, you know, he was right in front of me and I turned away. I didn’t want to touch him… he’s bleeding all over the place, I felt terrible. You know, beautiful marble floor, didn’t look like it. It changed color. Became very red. And you have this poor guy, 80 years old, laying on the floor unconscious, and all the rich people are turning away. ‘Oh my God! This is terrible! This is disgusting!’ and you know, they’re turning away. Nobody wants to help the guy. His wife is screaming—she’s sitting right next to him, and she’s screaming.

“What happens is, these 10 Marines from the back of the room… they come running forward, they grab him, they put the blood all over the place—it’s all over their uniforms—they’re taking it, they’re swiping (it), they ran him out, they created a stretcher. They call it a human stretcher, where they put their arms out with, like, five guys on each side.

“I was saying, ‘Get that blood cleaned up! It’s disgusting!’ The next day, I forgot to call (the man])to say he’s OK,” said Trump, adding of the blood, “It’s just not my thing.”

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-time-donald-trump-turned-away-in-disgust-while-a-man-bled-to-death-in-front-of-him

[hedda_foil]

1. He is disgusting.

[global1]

3. More Worried About The Floor Vs The Man.....

and he says if he heard gunfire - he'd run in without a weapon. Right!!!!!

[DemocracyMouse]

33. Trump also revealed that the thieves around him (the "rich" which is a misnomer) turned away

[MarcA]

51. Very well stated n/t

[politicaljunkie41910]

35. I love the picture of Lady Liberty hiding her face. I feel the same way at least 5 times a day since

the Dotard was sworn in. We all knew the little bitch with bone spurs was full of shit when he said earlier that he would have run into that school to save students lives, even if he had no gun. Now we know that being the real pussy that he is wouldn't even go a few steps to help an elderly gentleman who fell off of his shitty stage at Mir-a-lago. Hope the older guy sued his ass. And the little bitch had the nerve to tell this story on Howard Stern's show in 2008.

[lapislzi]

45. Don't insult pussies

They push out whole babies. The dotard is a oxygen thief.

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. 50 Million Americans adore him, worship him

WE have a much bigger problem than Donald J. Trump

[True Blue American]

11. I agree

We have the whole,rotten to the core Republican Party to clean up!

[maxrandb]

20. That party doesn't exist anymore

it's now the ReTrumplican Party.

[bronxiteforever]

39. [phone]

[KentuckyWoman]

61. I disagree

Trump is just the poster boy du jour. He leaves office they'll find someone even more hateful.

The base is made up of the worst, lowest scum at the bottom of the barrel America can produce. Even the greed wing of that party have abandoned ship.

[Gabi Hayes]

64. The Party Of Trump.......POT Party

Start using it......my idea

[Moostache]

15. You are goddamn right....those who support him are GUILTY!

Guilty of his crimes
Guilty of his arrogance
Guilty of his total lack of empathy
Guilty of being humans that I want no part of in my life...

[erronis]

19. I dispute this. Who keeps promoting these numbers?

Independent polls? Or troll polls?

Give me some fact-check.org numbers, please.

[Eliot Rosewater]

21. Yeah, you are right, it is surely MORE than that.

Troll polls? You calling me a troll?

[Angry Dragon]

27. number is way too high

[Eliot Rosewater]

28. if 38% support him then it is higher than that

[Angry Dragon]

32. Only if you are talking about all Americans

Might need to subtract people under 18
subtract people over 18 that do not vote

[FakeNoose]

36. That would be ... 50 million Russian bots adore him

Or maybe it's really 50 bots that each voted 1 million times.

[calimary]

49. Which makes me instinctively and inevitably go back to

"...and what does that say about THEM?????" Sorry. Can't help it.

Most of the blame for this mess we're all in goes directly to the MAGAts. Those Who Fell For It. There was no excuse then, and there's STILL no excuse now. Except for now, the evidence is overwhelming to all but the unredeemably gullible.

[jimmil]

67. I know what you said is absolutely true

but how did it get to this point? Where did civil discourse, debate, and compromise to help the people go? Our country is broken, really broken bad, and I see nothing ahead but more bad. I honestly believe that this country is going to suffer an armed rebellion sometime in this century and it will be bloody and it will really divide this country into smaller regions ruled by local governments or councils and there will be border disputes and skirmishes constantly. The United States will not exist by the end of this century. I am so glad I will be long dead before that happens.

[SFnomad]

4. Did he bill the 80 year old man for the cleaning and/or replacement of the marble? n/t

[ProfessorGAC]

72. Of Course

You know the damage that blood would do to 800,000 year old solid rock? Oh, no way to damage solid rock with blood? Never mind.

[MFM008]

5. And yet

Didn't he just say that he would run into a school unarmed to stop a shooter with an AR just run right in there?

[Crunchy Frog]

6. Yeah. He would totally run headlong into a school shooting.

[True Blue American]

12. Even if he

Did not have a weapon! Sick, sick, sick!

[SummerSnow]

56. He think he is Superman

[Tom Rinaldo]

7. K&R. This woud be a very good time for national media to feature these Trump reccolections n/t

[Javaman]

8. at the end of the day, when stripped raw of everything in his twisted little mind...

the orange asshole is nothing but a coward.

I have noticed that when confronted directly, he backs down or changes the subject.

[Bromwell]

17. Bingo

Remember this? Watch how when confronted face to face, he slouches his shoulder and puts his head down like a dog who has been beaten. You can practically smell the fear coming off him.

And then later when interviewed about it, when the mean black lady was gone and he didn't have to be scared anymore, boy was he tough and boisterous again.

I wish people would just start chanting COWARD, sport stadium style, every where he goes....all the time.

COOOOOWAAAAARD

COOOOOWAAAAARD

[jazzcat23]

65. Great idea, let's all do it! n/t

[NYETNYET]

22. He never fires 'anyone' because they might talk mean to him.

I remember seeing him react while on campaign to someone rushing the stage. Good thing he usually keeps up on his 'depends'. He did everything except wet his pants. I am not sure he didn't.
You never know which one of the voices in his head takes over his mouth at any given moment. Then we hear something this stupid. Somehow people sit through it without laughing out loud. What a moron!

[Javaman]

44. yup, the only "firing" he ever did was on a scripted reality show with no repercussions.

so many people duped by a cowardly sideshow grifter conman.

[spedtr90]

9. But he just told (twice) the governors....

that HE would have run into that school in Parkland, even if he didn't have a gun.

He's so brave! So tough! (Sarcasm. And disgust.)

[Nitram]

10. Mr. Empathy Personified.

[LiberalLovinLug]

13. K & R

[keepleft101]

14. Why isnt the media talking about this

I dont get how he gets away with this stuff.

[Paladin]

16. This is a great find---needs the widest possible distribution. (NT)

[dchill]

18. It's just not his thing, okay?

[DoctorJoJo]

23. And Yet This Is The Same POS ...

who said he would have run in even w/o a gun and confronted the Parkland shooter! What a disgusting cretin this tub of gut is. And I suppose the Vietnam war would have ended sooner, if he just didn't have those bone spurs, as he would have wiped out so many all by himself! This man is a coward and has shown that throughout his life.

[AtheistCrusader]

24. Knew it.

Soon as he opened his big fat fucking mouth, I knew that this sort of thing would come out.

[Angry Dragon]

25. Trump showing his true colors

[suffragette]

26. Audio here. This is who he is: vile, cowardly, with not an ounce of human compassion or empathy.

https://m.

[smirkymonkey]

29. I have never seen a more vile, disgusting, soulless person in my entire life.

I really hope there is such a thing as Karma and I really hope we get to see it come around in this lifetime.

[suffragette]

30. Completely agree.

[yonder]

40. disgusting POS

A bit off-topic here:

Did you notice drumpf cannot dance a lick? It's apparent he has no sense of time. He was jerking Melania about like one of those patented push me-pull you handshakes of his. Hell, I can't dance either but like it or not, I have the good sense to at least try and pay attention to the music. Him? Nada. Thanks for the clip

carry on.

[suffragette]

57. Yep, shove and jerk - just like his handshakes.

[niyad]

74. apart from the obvious, I did notice that this is about the only time I have ever seen him

`look at melania with any degree of warmth or even liking. and I don't think I have seen her smiling like that.

[ollie10]

31. Yeah....and now he says he would have entered the school without a gun!!!!

What happened at Mar a Lago was the real Trump. disgusting. self absorbed. and uninterested in helping out.

[Faux pas]

34. He's such a

MAN.

[Mr. Sparkle]

37. That reads like a Family Guy skit with Peter attending a fancy dress ball.

you literally couldn't make that shit up.

[DemocracyMouse]

38. To be scientific about it...

... the wealthier people are, the more indifferent they are to the other people they've climbed over or exploited to leverage that wealth. A recent Berkley Univ. study showed that drivers in higher end vehicles like BMWs and Mercedes Benz are less likely to slow down when entering a crosswalk, even when pedestrians are present. Contrary to myth, the Republican Party as a whole is more represented by people in the upper income brackets.

So the general problem we are witnessing is the slide into steep inequality. Trump happens to be the most unfiltered mouthpiece for the overpaid.

(And while we're at it, let's stop pandering to these monsters. Let's stop saying rich and poor and start saying overpaid and underpaid!)

[No-Bozos]

41. Hammer Time is Coming

Mere words are inadequate when describing this poor excuse of a human being.

There is a carpenter named Mueller preparing to drop a very big hammer. I'm not sure I can survive the wait.

A note for the lemmings of the GOP and NRA: You're running out of old white men. There is a new generation who just declared they are mad as hell and aren't going to take it anymore. We are watching history in the making.

[calimary]

52. Welcome to DU, No-Bozos!

Can't say this often enough - I am BEYOND proud, like Over-The-Moon proud, of these kids! Since I'm "Miss Mid-60", I think I can call them kids. These high school students - in Parkland Florida and across the country, who have stepped up to the front lines of this particular battleground - it's hard to find sufficient words of praise for them. It's hard to express the depth of how proud of them I am, and impressed with them, and damn grateful to them! This has been an issue of mine for quite a while.

It's been an issue of mine ever since I lost two friends to ONE Single Argument - and a gun within easy reach. BLAMM! And then BLAMM! again, and both of them are gone. Both of 'em extremely knowledgeable about guns, living in a gun-oriented rural community, legally qualified and licensed to carry and use, having learned the ropes at a very tender age, even working with the police. Gone. All it took was ONE argument, and a handy-dandy gun in the house.

It's been an issue of mine ever since I realized that the reason a classmate of mine was so quiet, and kept to herself all the time. It's because of her two brothers. She used to have THREE brothers. Until the day I learned that the three of them had gone to a legitimate, legally operated and licensed professional gun range. All it took was ONE bullet that ricocheted. And one of her brothers was dead. Instantly. Gone.

I belong to a couple of different gun violence activism groups. We tried after Sandy Hook. Hell, some of us tried after John Lennon was shot. And during the late 60s, when I was starting to wake up to political activism, after Martin Luther King Jr. and Bobby Kennedy got shot.

Some of us have been working on this that long - and even longer. And look how successful we haven't been.

I LOVE these kids. I appreciate them so doggone much! I'm SO proud of them and how gutsy and passionate they are. I hope they mean it - that they're not going to go away and they're not going to forget and they're not going to quiet down about this. I hope they mean it, and do it, and I will be behind them all the way. They're going to make some (maybe many?) of the urgently-needed changes we tried to achieve but couldn't. Maybe because they went straight to social media and reporters' microphones and podiums instead of dissolving into low-key candlelight prayer vigils. Instead of making quiet, passive statements, they immediately switched on Active-mode, making noise, speaking out, going on the offensive. And they're young, passionate and energetic. They don't have years and years of frustration and reversals and neglect and legislative defeat that's had a chance to threaten or dampen their spirit.

I hope they remain fired up. I hope they never fail to vote. And I hope a bunch of 'em run for office. We need them more than even they know.

[No-Bozos]

53. Thank You

Like you, I'm extremely impressed with the eloquence and maturity these kids have demonstrated. My biggest fear, they won't be able to sustain it. The seniors will disperse to colleges nationwide. I surely hope they all register to vote.

I came of age as Viet Nam was winding down. I had a student deferment until I graduated and became 1A with a draft number of 64. Never called up and I lost my draft card when my wallet went through the washer. Then there was Watergate. The moment I heard of the break-in I knew Nixon was involved. Between the war and Watergate I was sure my generation would not let it happen again. Alas, all I can say now is that I'm extremely disappointed that my generation allowed it to happen again.

Two Viet Nams with no end in sight, a man with the temperament of a spoiled 10 year old in the big chair, and the GOP drinking the Kool-Aid by the gallon. My conspiracy theory is that climate change is robbing us of our collective common sense.

These kids give me new hope.

[True Blue American]

70. So true

And welcome to the board.

[PatrickforO]

42. You know, Kpete, I've seen this before.

These rich people, who are supposed to be better than the average American in some fundamental way, are not.

In fact, these rich people are little more than parasites on the economy. Most do nothing to create jobs, or to benefit those around them. Interesting they all turned away.

If I fell and was in a puddle of my own blood, I'd want to be around regular people, not these rich do-nothing parasites.

In terms of what this story says about Trump...it's hard to find the right words. Despicable only covers it part way. Loathsome, perhaps. He makes me think of a disgusting orange maggot.

[BobTheSubgenius]

43. And what is the premise here?

That that was an actual human being talking? F'ing appalling!!!

[world wide wally]

46. The "Real Donald Trump"

I hear he has a Twitter account

[Doodley]

47. The eighth wonder of the world: why tens of millions are proud of such a disgusting creature.

[Turbineguy]

48. Why does he even talk about these things?

Why does he think we need to know his intimate thoughts?

[Skittles]

50. extreme narcissism

he thinks all this thoughts are worthy

[bucolic_frolic]

54. "There is no collusion, not any, no one is talking about collusion, it just didn't happen."

If it paid off for him he'd forget he had hair.

[MrModerate]

55. Clearly not a well man. n/t

[Honeycombe8]

58. Our leader, the hero. (sarcasm) nt

[iluvtennis]

59. What a Sh#thole

[Hekate]

60. He broadcasts his revulsion toward blood in many ways, usually aimed at women...

But Christ on a Trailer Hitch, the Orange Moron is disgusting. Absolutely disgusting.

[RainCaster]

62. What a POS

I'm sorry, I just can't think of a better word to describe him.

[LudwigPastorius]

63. But...but...

President Rambo Scambo would have charged into that Florida high school unarmed and would have disabled the shooter with his bare hands!

[Marcuse]

66. That was fear, not disgust.

[raven mad]

68. I wish bubonic plague on every supposed "human" who voted for this excrement.

And would like to add wolverines to the mix.

[Cha]

69. It's your thing to LIE, MF.. this one time you

told the truth.. you're chickenlillylivered coward and Stupid.

[NastyRiffraff]

71. This is a snapshot of the Trump we've come to know

An 80 year old man is bleeding profusely, and his ONLY thought is that it's "disgusting." His ONLY worry is for the "beautiful marble floor."

Disgusting.

[niyad]

73. that was my first thought when I heard him saying he would have run into the school (but then,

there is the luckovich cartoon which explains it)