Capitol Report
By State Representative, Leon D. Young
Leon D. Young
As the GOP makes final preparations for its second presidential debate this week that’s being staged in Semi Valley, California, I thought it was time to offer my thoughts on the current Republican front runner: Donald Trump.
To millions of Americans, Mr. Trump is known as the acerbic TV personality on “The Celebrity Apprentice,”but that all changed when he formally announced his candidacy in June.
Trump opened his presidential campaign in stunning fashion.
He enraged many people with his remarks about Mexican immigrants. According to Trump,
“They are bringing drugs. They are bringing crime. They are rapists and some I assume, are good people.”
The Donald would next insult former presidential candidate Senator John McCain (R-Arizona) for being captured as a POW.
Trump ignited the controversy when he flippantly quipped, “McCain is a war hero because he was captured, and I prefer people who weren’t captured.”
Next on Trump’s hit parade was Megyn Kelly, a Fox News Moderator during the first Republican presidential debate.
Trump, in his typical irrational fashion, took exception with a legitimate question posed by Ms. Kelly regarding some of his derogatory comments about woman in the past.
Trump first attempted to take her to task on air during the debate, but the actual coup de grâce would come later on Twitter. Trump’s Twitter tirade included tweets saying Kelly “bombed” and was “unprofessional.” He even said in an interview on CNN: “She had blood coming out of her eyes, she had blood coming out of her wherever.”
Many took that to be a snide reference to her menstrual period.
Not surprisingly, it appears that Donald Trump knows no bounds and has no limits.
Just last week Trump once again went into attack mode. The latest victim in Trump’s maniacal rant was Carly Fiorina, a former Hewlett-Packard chief executive and fellow GOP presidential hopeful. Trump specifically took aim at Fiorina’s looks in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine.
“Look at that face!,” the magazine quoted Trump as saying.
“Would anyone vote for that? Can you imagine that, the face of our next president?
I mean, she’s a woman, and I’m not s’posedta say bad things, but really, folks, come on. Are we serious?” To date, Donald Trump’s bombastic, take-no-prisoner approach has resonated with many Republican voters.
He purports to be above the political fray in Washington, because of his enormous wealth (that he drastically inflates!!) and his ability to get things done.
Trump may be a master of caustic rhetoric, but he’s clueless when it comes to substantive detail.
Trump has had a good run so far, rocketing to the top of the Republican primary polls because of near-100 percent name recognition and a willingness to insult personally other candidates, journalists, and heck, that guy on the sidewalk over there, who might have looked at him funny just now.
(“Hey, dummy! Yeah, you. You’re a loser, you know that?”)
But like a ship collecting barnacles, the S.S. Trump will slowly, but surely, accumulate so much extra weight that for The Donald, things just won’t be fun anymore; and eventually his narcissistic brand of politics will be seen for exact what it is: empty and offensive hot air.