Grow up, Donald Trump: POTUS is a job for adults only

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Grow up, Donald Trump: POTUS is a job for adults only

by Mary Elizabeth Williams at Salon

http://www.salon.com/2016/10/18/grow-up-donald-trump-potus-is-a-job-for-adults-only/

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Boys will be boys, right? Even when they’re far into their AARP years, apparently. But here’s a wild thought: What if being an adult were to be considered a valuable qualification for the highest office in the land? To blue sky it even further — what if maturity were to be valued in our culture in general?

Speaking with Anderson Cooper on Monday night, aspiring first lady Melania Trump defended her husband’s notorious “locker room talk,” recorded in a 2005 conversation with “Access Hollywood’s” Billy Bush. She told Cooper, “I heard many different stuff, boys’ talk, the boys that the way they talk when they grow up and they wanna, sometimes show each other oh this and that and talking about the girls . . . . It’s kind of two teenage boys; actually they should behave better, right?” She went on to explain, “Sometimes I said I have two boys at home; I have my young son and my husband.”

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is 70 years old. He was 59 at the time of recording of the tape, in which he boasted, “You know I’m automatically attracted to beautiful . . . I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab them by the p___y. You can do anything.”

Former “Access Hollywood” host Billy Bush has also deployed the youthful overeagerness defense as well, explaining earlier this month, “Obviously I’m embarrassed and ashamed. It’s no excuse, but this happened 11 years ago — I was younger, less mature, and acted foolishly in playing along. I’m very sorry.” He was 31 at the time. But at least Bush’s flexible understanding of time and aging does explain how he was able to wave off Ryan Lochte’s Rio Olympics robbery deception this past summer as just the antics of “kids traveling abroad.” Lochte is 32.


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