Trump: If Clinton ‘were a man, I don’t think she’d get 5 percent of the vote’

[TomCADem]

Source: Washington Post

NEW YORK — While celebrating sweeping victories in five primaries Tuesday night, Donald Trump mocked the qualifications of Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton and suggested she was playing "the women's card" to her advantage in the presidential race.

Frankly, if Hillary Clinton were a man, I don't think she'd get 5 percent of the vote. The only thing she's got going is the women's card,” Trump said during a news conference at Trump Tower. “And the beautiful thing is, women don't like her."

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s wife, Mary Pat, who was standing behind Trump, appeared to react negatively as he made the comments.

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"It's not sexist. It's true. It's just a very, very true statement. If she were a man, she'd get 5 percent. She's a bad candidate. She's a flawed candidate," Trump said on ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Wednesday morning. "She's not going to do very well in the election, and I look forward to showing that."

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/04/27/trump-if-clinton-were-a-man-i-dont-think-shed-get-5-percent-of-the-vote/

[47of74]

1. I'd rather have a woman who played the woman card...

...which Mrs. Clinton does not by the way, than a piece of shit fuck nugget who plays the KKK card every chance he gets like der Trumpenführer.

[Squinch]

2. Whoa! Glad you're on my side!

[thucythucy]

5. "Trumpenfuehrer"

That's a good one. I also like "Il Douche."

[muntrv]

48. Shouldn't it be "Drumpenfuhrer?"

[47of74]

62. Yeah that works.

Along with der Trumpenfucker.

[BeyondGeography]

3. 5 percent...that could be achieveable for Donald

in the fullness of time.

[dhill926]

4. ugh....

not looking forward to the daily spewings of this neanderfuck the next few months...

[Botany]

6. D. Trump sewing up the women's vote

I'm looking forward to seeing Trump being crushed by millions of votes in the general election.

Vote Trump: Because America needs an unqualified asshole

[Gomez163]

7. Where do I get one of these "woman cards?"

[The Second Stone]

34. I know several women who are "cards"

and they are a lot of fun.

[whistler162]

67. I've known a few that where missing cards

still nice people.

[notadmblnd]

45. You have to be born with it

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

58. Well, it's not up your sleeve ...

... it's elsewhere.

[LibDemAlways]

8. "Finally fathers will be able to say to

their daughters, 'You, too, can grow up to be President.'"

That's a Hillary quote from a stump speech.

I despise Trump and everything he stands for. But on the issue of Hillary playing the woman card, he's correct. Like it or not, she has done it.

[TomCADem]

10. So, would she be beating Bern if she were a man?

Isn't that the implication of what Trump is saying?

[maddiemom]

11. Whether or not she's "playing the woman card"...

It's certainly NOT her "only card." Donald: Sen. Trump?...UH...Mr. Secretary of State?...UH...Not even Mr. First Dude.

[Beacool]

14. Good for her.

Hillary is the most qualified person running for president. That she also happens to be a woman is the icing on the cake. She should rightfully be proud to have made it this far. Personally, I'm beyond thrilled that a woman will be the nominee of the party.

It's about damn time!!!!

[LuvLoogie]

28. You mean in the eyes of The Revolution and their serendipitous proxies on the Right

[Kingofalldems]

37. Oh I get it.

Benghazi. Right wingers favorite topic.

[Kingofalldems]

39. Looks like all your posts are about Hillary so far.

And all trashing her. Not fooled.
I do not think for one second you are a Bernie supporter.

[Kingofalldems]

42. So does Trump--who you seem to think will be better than Hillary.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=1429695

[maxsolomon]

20. The concept is offensive. And misogynist.

She's not making a BFD about it, but she's not avoiding it; Obama didn't make a BFD about his ethnicity.

But it is a BFD.

[Eugene]

9. Trump being Trump, he doubles down yet again.

So much for the new, more presidential Trump.

[bemildred]

15. Yep. nt

[GummyBearz]

17. It has worked for him so far. I am confused as hell about why.

But Trump doubling down has worked every time... its fucking unbelievable and if someone had told me this would happen a year ago I would laugh in their face, but it is happening... god help us when Trump unleashes the negative campaign on HRC that Bernie chose to avoid.

[David__77]

18. I think, in part, because it occurs to people as authentic.

I don't think that Trump is playing the game that is usually played. He's not obliging "being on the defensive" or acknowledging "shift in momentum" as might be done by some others. He's set up another game, on his own terms.

[Beacool]

12. Let him talk.

The man is a pig, with all his money he couldn't buy class if his life depended on it. His own mouth will be his worst enemy. He's unfit to be president, and that's before taking his politics into consideration.

[0rganism]

13. please proceed, Mr. Trump

your views are very interesting to the American electorate. in fact, they are the most interesting views ever put forth on issues of national importance. please continue sharing them with us.

[maxsolomon]

19. Welcome to DU

Thanks for taking the time to register and share that important opinion.

I look forward to many more edifying posts from you.

[maxsolomon]

24. Yes, that's an important point, I've never heard it here before.

Clinton supporters never discuss issues. They just smear Sanders.

Thanks for sharing it. I look forward to more of your insights.

[safeinOhio]

26. As a Bernie fan

I'd still vote for Hillary over Trump or Cruz.....how about you?

[jb5150]

29. Agreed ......

In my Primary I voted for Bernie, but if it comes down to Hillary VS Trump, Hillary has my vote.

[TomCADem]

22. Do You Think Other Bernie Supporters...

...are reluctant to say this due to concerns about political correctedness? Susan Sarandon has made similar statements arguing it is sexist for women to support Hillary.

[Kingofalldems]

41. Who the hell are you trying to kid?

[scscholar]

30. People like her because of her husband

not because of her gender. Geez.

[Xithras]

32. Indeed.

I've spoken to a disturbing number of rank and file Democratic voters who are supporting Hillary because they think it will be "Bill's third term".

I was just talking to a guy two days ago who said flat out "Hillary is getting the keys, but we all know it's the man who runs the house." All I could was look at him and wonder why he even considered himself a Democrat. I can't stand Hillary, and I still found it offensive as hell.

[2naSalit]

36. Some people like her

because she is intelligent and experienced in governing, the fact that she's a woman is a bonus.

[NYC Liberal]

50. "She's successful because she's a woman" and "She's successful because of her husband"

are two sides of the same misogynist coin.

[2naSalit]

52. Yup. ...nt

[zalinda]

56. What experience in governing?

She governed while Bill was Governor?

She governed while Bill was President?

She governed while she was Senator? Oh, yeah for a few years.

She governed while she was Secretary of State?

Women are no better than men at governing.

Intelligent? She put a private server for government intelligence communication in her private house, for fuck's sake. She's more arrogant more than intelligent. All the military conflicts she supports should tell you that.

Z

[2naSalit]

64. Sorry about your opinion.

It must suck to think like that but that's your prerogative, not mine.

[Maeve]

63. Ummm...for some, it was the reverse

I don't think I have a "Vote for Hillary's Husband" any more, but it was a part of the 1992 election.

[LuvLoogie]

31. If Hillary were a man then the means Bill would have been the first

Openly gay male President or the first woman President. And that would make the Clintons even more the groundbreaking power couple than they already are!

[2naSalit]

35. Wow, I wonder what drugs he's on!

Probably something like LSD.

[truthisfreedom]

44. If Trump "were" a man I doubt he'd get 1% of the vote.

He's a cartoon character with multiple personalities. He's fiction. He's nothing but a lie on top of a lie on top of a lie.

[47of74]

60. LOL

I chuckled out loud. As in


Fortunately the other people here at the combination bar/coffee shop were all too busy to look at me funny.

[whistler162]

70. You forgot two letters H and U.

[Sunlei]

47. He still makes C. Cristie stand by him like a pet and Mrs. Christie.

[MissMillie]

49. If Trump were a "man," he might get some women to vote for him

He's a monster.

[JustAnotherGen]

51. If Donald Trump wasn't rich

His wife wouldn't have married him. And he's happy buying a wife. . . so there's that.

[2naSalit]

53. well, if he weren't rich

nobody would know who he is because he'd be in the lowest caste of society. How I wish it were so.

[47of74]

61. Hell he'd probably be doing time.

[2naSalit]

66. LOL

yeah, probably!!

[MFM008]

54. he is a giant slug

sitting in a puddle of his own mucus.

salt please !!!

[sofa king]

55. Keep it up, Donald.

Trump went after Hispanic-Americans, and lost the swing vote Republicans needed to win the White House.

He kept it up, expanded the vitriol, prolonged the primaries, and now Republicans are in danger of losing the Senate. If they lose 16 seats instead of the dozen they're already in danger of having flipped, it becomes a filibuster-proof supermajority.

If he keeps up the misogyny, we might just bag the House, too.

If we get all those things, even for two years, we get a permanent pick-advantage in the Supreme Court as well. We get to write stronger gerrymandering laws so that the disaster of the past two decades can't happen again. We get to secure elections against theft. We get to dismantle the for-profit medical insurance industry. We get to sideline three generations of Republican operatives by opening investigations into two-dozen government-wide crimes. We get to raise taxes on the rich and force the most sociopathic of them straight the hell out of the country, forever.

We get to lift ten to twenty million people out of poverty, raise the minimum wage, demand equal pay for equal work, end corporate welfare, end dependence on fossil fuels....

So please, keep being an asshole, Donald Trump. You have the chance to be the most important asshole America ever spawned.

[SunSeeker]

57. If she were a man, no one would have called her unqualified.

Funny, but when Kerry ran, Sanders did not call him unqualified, in fact Sanders supported him.

[beastie boy]

59. Ditto for Trump.

If he were a man....

[llmart]

65. I honestly never thought I'd say this but.....

I thought Dubya was as dumb as a box of rocks but this guy makes me almost regret ever thinking we couldn't ever go any lower than Bush in this country.

I keep hoping I'll wake up from this nightmare of a country and find that it was all a bad dream.

[Unicorn]

68. I can't believe Trump can get 5% of the vote.

[whistler162]

69. This kinda statement never makes sense

since if she were a man her experiences and life would have been totally different, except maybe the lawyer part. So she might never have run for a political office or she might have been the Senator from Illinois and then President.