Trump to Kelly: 'You’ve been called a lot worse' than bimbo

[TomCADem]

Source: USA Today

Donald Trump doesn’t think his retweet of someone calling Megyn Kelly a “bimbo” was that bad — he says she's probably “been called a lot worse.”

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“Bimbo?” Kelly asked, referring to tweets that had appeared on Trump's Twitter timeline calling her a bimbo.

“Many times,” Kelly said.

“Oh, okay excuse me,” Trump said. “Not the most horrible thing … Over your life Megyn, you’ve been called a lot worse. Isn’t that right? Wouldn’t you say?”



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Trump continues his pivot to the middle by showing empathy toward Megyn Kelly as only Don the Douche can.

[TreasonousBastard]

1. I watched the whole thing and Trump was...

on his best behavior.

Which wasn't really that good.

[Bad Dog]

2. She's a vacuous blonde who parrots her right wing bosses.

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Trump was right, she's an insult to all the real women journalists doing a brilliant job. This is what real journalists looks like.

[mac56]

3. So basically you're defending Trump.

Gotcha.

[Bad Dog]

10. No, I'm pointing out he has a point.

If he'd attacked a real journalist that would be a different matter. Kelly is just slightly less obnoxious than Trump, if he had to attack anyone I'm glad it was her.

[mac56]

16. Oh, well, then.

She's not worthy in your eyes, so Trump's misogyny is justified.

[Bad Dog]

20. Misogyny is never justified.

But she had a great deal in preparing the ground for him. Reap what you sow and all that, I'm just pleased he's having a go at her instead of a real journalist.

[Fla Dem]

4. What do looks have to do with it? No Megan Kelly fan, but female journalists are not defined

by their looks. She has excelled in her own sphere of influence and is an accomplished woman. That I don't agree with her political ideology has nothing to do with her looks.

[Bad Dog]

9. You're having a laugh.

No Fox Journo has excelled in anything other than peddling bs. There's a huge difference between proper journalists like Olga Guerin, who know their profession and bring real news, and the wet lipped anchors on Fox, who don't.

[Fla Dem]

12. She has a law degree, has practiced law, she was a reporter for an ABC station in Washington

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She is a wife and mother of 3. Whether you approve of FOX news or not and I hate it with a passion, she broke through a male dominated profession to be one of the the most highly rated personalities on their network.

You said she's a vacuous blonde

vac·u·ous:/adjective
having or showing a lack of thought or intelligence; mindless.
"a vacuous smile"
synonyms: silly, inane, unintelligent, insipid, foolish, stupid, fatuous, idiotic, brainless, witless, vapid, vacant, empty-headed;

Vacuous blonde is a stereotypical description of an empty headed female and is derogatory on it's merits. Journalists, male or female are not evaluated on their looks.

Had you just said what you said in your response to my post (there's a huge difference between proper journalists like Olga Guerin, who know their profession and bring real news) I would have had no problem with your comment. However, there again you used a misogynist slur in describing her (wet lipped anchors).

[Bad Dog]

19. I stand by what I said.

I'm sorry but I remember American exchange students from when I was at college. They were in their third year and they had to be put in with the Freshers, even then they had trouble keeping up. So I don't hold the American educational system in that high a regard.

I've seen her, and compared to someone like Lindsey Hilsum she is vacuous.

[David__77]

6. What the hell is with the "real women" thing?

How is Megyn Kelly not a "real woman?" Sometimes I note this "lookist" thing where I think that people consider others as less than, simply because they choose to look a certain way.

[Bad Dog]

8. All she has are her bloody looks.

The pictures I posted are all of well respected award winning journalists who got their jobs on merit.

[David__77]

11. I have the sense you are insulting those other journalists' appearance.

I believe I get your intended point. At the same time, I think what you say seems to be consistent with some narrative that conventional attractiveness is somehow inauthentic.

[Bad Dog]

17. Conventional attractiveness?

She's plastic, and not a journalist in the proper sense of the word. It's not about her looks but her piss poor journalism. None of the women on the BBC could be described as bimbos even though most of them are a lot better looking than Kelly.

[closeupready]

18. Stop, amigo - you will not win this against DU's peanut gallery.

Take it from a veteran of board wars too many to count, ha.

You made a valid point, everyone got it, you do NOT need to defend it from the perpetually outraged here.

[Bad Dog]

21. Thank you.

I'll take your advice.

[TomCADem]

23. Agree. Hate It How People Resent Me for My Hotness

With me rocking a slight beer belly and wearing my nerd crocs, I just hate it that people do not take my political opinions seriously because they are distracted by my political dork sexiness.

[closeupready]

7. Agreed. People like Kelly are paid Millions of $$ simply to push the GOP agenda

in an appealing wrapper. Don't think for ONE SINGLE SECOND that Kelly's undeniable sex appeal is NOT part of why she anchors a show on cable news and is someone who actually MAKES news rather than simply reports it.

[Kingofalldems]

5. The whole 'feud' was fake.

[freebrew]

13. Tough position for Megyn, eh?

Now Trump is the R nominee, she'll have to either get over the insults thrown earlier
or maybe find a new network. I doubt Faux will go Dem this year, even for HRC.
It's not like she's Rachel Maddow or something...

[Mrs. Ted Nancy]

14. He's a true narcissist

I don't think he will ever take responsibility for his boorish behavior.

Also, does he have any socially redeeming qualities?

[pressbox69]

15. Er.....he doesn't slurp his soup

he snorts it.

[Mad-in-Mo]

22. The whole point is not whether Megyn Kelly is a bimbo or not,

it's that a PRESIDENTIAL candidate called her one. When he asked her if she had been called worse, she should have said, "Never by a Presidential candidate."