The White House tried to “pull a Hillary” and bait the hell out of Donald Trump a few weeks ago. They literally said “here kitty, kitty” and left a trail of bread crumbs for the Orange One to get him to publicly attack Michelle Obama. The White House did this immediately following Michelle’s speech in New Hampshire, which was called “the best speech of the campaign season,” and which Hillary Clinton has repeatedly referenced on the trail. As it turns out, Michelle is probably HRC’s most effective and most popular surrogate. Oddly enough, Trump didn’t immediately take the bait. Which is weird, right? But he’s been suspiciously careful to avoid talking sh-t about FLOTUS. Until now.
The thing about it is, Trump isn’t really “attacking” Michelle. He’s using Michelle to try to make some kind of convoluted point about Hillary Clinton. A few days ago, he told his crowd:
“We have a president, all he wants to do is campaign. His wife, all she wants to do is campaign. And I see how much his wife likes Hillary. But wasn’t she [Michelle Obama] the one that originally started the statement, ‘If you can’t take care of your home, you can’t take care of the White House or country?’ Where is that? I don’t hear that. I don’t hear that. She’s the one that started that. I said, ‘We can’t say that, it’s too vicious.’ Can you believe it? I said that,” he said. “They said, well, Michelle Obama said it. I said she did? Now she said that, but we don’t hear about that.”
First of all, Orange One, I’m going to need you to TAKE MICHELLE’S NAME OUT OF YOUR PUCKERED MOUTH. Secondly, Trump’s argument is that Michelle Obama dissed HRC in 2007 and so now he should be able to. Is that really a diss on Michelle? No. But it’s worth noting that – as NY Mag points out – it’s not even clear that Michelle was making even an oblique reference to the Clintons. These are her original comments from 2007:
One of the most important things that we need to know about the next president of the United States is, is he somebody that shares our values? Is he somebody that respects family? Is (he) a good and decent person? So our view was that, if you can’t run your own house, you certainly can’t run the White House. So, so we’ve adjusted our schedules to make sure that our girls are first, so while he’s traveling around, I do day trips. That means I get up in the morning, I get the girls ready, I get them off, I go and do trips, I’m home before bedtime. So the girls know that I was gone somewhere, but they don’t care. They just know that I was at home to tuck them in at night, and it keeps them grounded, and, and children, the children in our country have to know that they come first. And our girls do and that’s why we’re doing this. We’re in this race for not just our children, but all of our children.
It sounds more like she was talking about why she wasn’t hitting the campaign trail constantly during the primary season. It’s true – back in the fall of 2007, Michelle wasn’t a constant presence on the campaign trail because her daughters were really small and she wanted to, you know, take care of her family.
Still, even if Michelle was making a reference to HRC, I’d say they buried the hatchet long ago. Michelle is joining Hillary in North Carolina this week to make their first joint-appearances together of the campaign season. MObama wants us all to know that she is, without a doubt, #WithHer. And I can’t wait until Michelle rips the Orange One a new one.
"If you can't run your own house you certainly can't run the White House" A statement made by Mrs. Obama about Crooked Hillary Clinton
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 23, 2016
Trump goes after Michelle Obama, says "all she wants to do is campaign" pic.twitter.com/ARPN2925lv
— Colin Jones (@colinjones) October 21, 2016
Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet and Getty.
I can’t understand anything he says. I was an English major, just to present some credentials here, and that entire paragraph is completely lost on me.
Right?! Is it even worth claiming a degree from an Ivy League if you don’t even sound like you went there?!
Ha, I used to think the same thing about W. But in retrospect he is utterly eloquent compared to Trump.
Trump makes Bush look like Cicero.
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I had to read it three times and it still boggles my mind. I can’t understand half of what he says.
I had to read it twice to even get the general gist of what he was trying to say. I think he’s so solipsistic he doesn’t feel the need to actually explain himself!
Congrats. I read it four times and it still makes zero sense to me.
Haha yes. I read (or attempted to read) the transcript of one of the debates and the man is utterly incoherent. No sense of sentence structure, grammar, or vocabulary beyond 5th grade level. Got to say, kudos to the Washington Post for not cleaning up his word vomit or attempting to correct the errors.
To be fair, my fifth grader is far more eloquent in his speech and vocabulary than Trump. (I know you weren’t dissing 5th graders, I’m just following up to dis on Trump some more) 😉
@Jules, my five year old makes more sense when he’s parotting his favorite Youtube videos in his best English…
The Orange one makes a mean word salad, it’s just that his dressing is vile as hell.
Yes. His quotes are just mind-boggling in their incoherence.
Hahaha, BettyRose. You are not alone.
I rarely understand WTF he’s going on about.
Can you imagine what a State of the Union from this guy would sound like? He wouldn’t read anything his writers did and would simply say America was “doing really great, really nice” and that other nations were “sad”.
I teach two year olds and I can understand them better than I can understand him.
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Last week’s SNL exceptionally captured the essence of Trump’s parlance in a singular word – nonsensical.
Did Trump bigly pay for the ivy-league degree?
It’s obvious she’s talking about achieving balance in her own life..wonder if she can ‘pull a trump’ and threaten to sue over his misuse of her words?
I totally agree that’s what she was saying. But I don’t think she should threaten to sue, that’s just stooping low when she’s always so great about “going high.”
Trump only brings up FLOTUS to sew a division between her and Hillary. Because you know us women, us women are Catt and hate each other…LOL.
Dude, FLOTUS has President Hillary banners probably all over her and Prez Obama’s private rooms. You cannot divide these two women. If you had more respect for intelligent women you would know that. Silly Orangeman.
Also I’m pretty sure Mrs. M Trump has told him hands off on attacking FLOTUS, otherwise people are going to look closer at HER immigration background.
Yeah to me, it sounds like that was all about their own life, and not about any other candidates, including Hillary Clinton. It was about managing a public life balanced with raising 2 young kids – Hillary’s child is long grown with a child of her own. It just doesn’t apply.
Trump has seen how effective Michelle Obama has been, especially recently with that amazing speech. Since he has nothing else of substance to run on, he’s grasping at straws to try to turn people against Hillary with Michelle. Not happening.
Even if that was an oblique reference to Hillary (and I don’t think it was) were we to ask Michelle her opinion after eight years in the White House, it would likely be quite different.
All this is doing is further confirming that they have a habit of going through Michelle’s old speeches. Also, I’m still waiting on tax returns and Melania’s degree.
While it’s possible the tax returns can show up at some point, I think we’ll be waiting a looooooooooooooooooong time for Melania’s degree.
Thief
Rapist
Unqualified
Misogynist
Pig
Careful, those descriptions said in that order may summon the demon
Ha!
I hear if you say them three times while looking in the bathroom mirror Trump appears behind you, standing on the toilet seat.
Can I petition for replacing the ‘pig’ label for something else?
Pigs are lovely, intelligent creatures who are highly trainable, playful and contribute wonderfully to my parents’ rose garden.
None of which can be said about Cheeto Voldemort.
It is an insult to pigs to associate them with Voldy.
Piss ant?
Prick?
I agree about the pigs, Amelia!! I will go one step further and say even the Voldemort comparison is too classy for him. He is the Cheetos Fart.
(Tiny) Prick is a decent option!
This is true, Cookie.
At least Voldemort could make a rational argument, even if the premise it was built upon was completely flawed.
“Is Harry Potter being funded by the super pacs of the Magical Congress of the United States, I don’t know, you tell me.”
“CROOKED DUMBLEDORE. MISSING HOWLERS. I WENT TO ILVERMORNY.”
You’re right! Pigs should sue me for comparing them to that POS. I’ll happily change it to Prick, Pu$$y, PompousAss or anything else you suggest. Thanks!👍👍👍
Call him a human. These days I can’t think of a worse insult.
I’ll go with (alleged) pussy grabber.
I prefer to refer to him as a flaccid excuse for a human being. (I love Cheetos too much to sully them by calling him Cheeto mussolini)
Deplorable
Obnoxious
Narcissistic
Arrogant
Loud-mouthed
Dickweed
Ii wasn’t sure if Orange was a better choice for ‘O’.
Honorable mentions for ‘D’: Douchebag, Derelict, Deranged, Delusional.
You could go with LOSER for L.
Turd-brain
Repulsive
Unhinged
Moronic
Pathetic
I love that sassy side eye of Michelle
Clockjerk Orange should never be allowed to utter the name Michelle Obama again. She has more class in her outfits than he will ever have. I will miss her too much.
ITA except her name is the only thing I understand in this sentence:
“They said, well, Michelle Obama said it. I said she did? Now she said that, but we don’t hear about that.”
It’s like the adults in Charlie Brown: Wah-wah-wah-MichelleObama-Wah-Wah-Wah.
I think his team (or what’s left of it) has kept him from talking about FLOTUS because they know it’s a terrible idea, but I think now that he’s got nothing left to lose besides the election he isn’t listening to anyone.
Side note: I think Kellyanne Conway has aged like she’d finished a two -term presidency these past few months. Serves her right.
Her soul has been eaten.
After working for both Trump and Cruz, I wouldn’t be surprised.
She sold it to the devil.
My father who usually doesn’t notice these things is the one who pointed out to me that Kellyanne Conway has indeed aged like a banana in a hot car. She’s like Dorian Grey in reverse. Her Trump Campaign sins are showing on her face.
Banana in a hot car, LOL!
I am so stealing banana in a hot car. That is hilarious.
These people make bananas and oranges look bad. They can join the pigs suing them. Oh and the kittens.
She looks very haggard.
Oh please, Trump, please come for our beloved First Lady. And come hard. Go ahead, open your orange little hole and keep letting her name fall out. Because guess what? She can take it.
You know what can’t take it? Your trifling, piece-of-sh*t, downward spiraling campaign.
So go right ahead. You can’t even touch her but you can sure as hell dig your own hole deeper and deeper…
This! She’s an adult. I want to see what horrible things he has to say, just cause I really want him to show people what a turd he is.
I know! His daring to speak her name is now one of the final nails in the coffin of his hot mess campaign.
It’s a bold strategy, Cotton. Let’s see if it pays off for him.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but is that a Dodgeball reference? HAHAHAHA!! Love it!!
It is – it runs through my mind in gif form literally every time I hear about something the Cheeto Disaster has done.
What’s amazing to me is the context of everything he’s saying; basically, it’s a WOMAN’S job to take care of home and family, not a man’s. So Hillary has failed in taking care of her home because she stood beside her husband who cheated on her. Does that mean Ivanka failed because she left his orange a$$ after his affair and baby with Marla Maples? This is just one of the MANY reasons why I just can’t this jerk and anyone who supports him.
IVANA left him not Ivanka. But that’s a perfect Freudian slip.
Oh for God’s sake, she was talking about raising her own children, not about Hillary Clinton’s housekeeping skills or whatever. AND, when it was clear that Obama was the nominee, they started talking to the Clintons for advise about child-rearing in the White House because they were impressed with how the Clintons handled Chelsea’s upbringing. They also consulted with Caroline Kennedy for her experiences in the White House and afterwards as the daughter of a president.
Trump is such a drumpf!
And Hillary will be in New Hampshire today with Elizabeth Warren. I expect some targeted statements from Elizabeth and some ludicrous responses from Trump. Nasty women for the win!
Exactly. Although I’ll add that the orange raisin wasn’t even talking about housekeeping skills. He used FLOTUS’ comments about raising two young daughters to point out that HRC couldn’t keep her man in line. I’m completely shocked that he’s capable of subtlety. Or maybe he just doesn’t know what FLOTUS was talking about. Two weeks. Let it be over.
As if any of his wives ever kept their man in line.
“We were looking through Michelle Obama’s old interviews, you know, for Melania’s next speech…” s/
Queen FLOTUS is capable of tearing this man limb from limb, burning the body parts in a bonfire, and using the ashes to fetlize her garden without even saying his name. Bring it on, b*tch.
She is capable of reducing him to his component Cheeto molecules with the power of her mind without even THINKING his name. He is so outclassed it’s almost pitiful.
Your FLOTUS is basically the human equivalent of a lotus flower – all the muck is beneath her and she just rises above it all, it can’t even touch her.
The lotus flower analogy is everything.
I teach yoga, and though I’m agnostic, I’m really into Hindu/Buddhist symbolism and spiritualism. So on point.
MObama is a true Tara. A female Buddha.
And she’d do it without resorting to foul language, lies and moronic insinuations that sound like a two-year old having a melt-down.
LiterallyaShambles, I worship at your serene lyricism.
I neary CHOKED on popcorn reading that!
I said he went low and FLOTUS would go high whilst snatching his wig with velvet eloquence.
Keep digging that hole Donald. He’s so stupid, he didn’t get the significance of Michelle’s speech. Her speech was so amazing that both parties praised her. He’s an ahole!!!
Let’s face it – attacking the perfection that is FLOTUS is really the last bit of air escaping from the collapsing pumpkin soufflé.
You know what, it’s worth reading threads on Trump just for the amazing nicknames. Collapsing pumpkin soufflé; absolute perfection.
Ha, “collapsing pumpkin souffle” is perfect.
This is just the best descriptor ever!
This man is so easy to bait and he cult followers wants him to become the President?
Trump and his followers reminds me of one of the Indiana Jones movies about India (forgot the name). Same crazy followers worshipping a lunatic thinking he is God.
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom 🙂
The tangerine nightmare is just mad he can’t get anyone to campaign for him.
WHAT?! Hey, Chachi is someone! Let’s not forget Ted Cruz is making calls for his campaign, too.
and let’s not forget that must-have supporter, Mr. David Duke!
And Alec’s little brother.
Question: has any prominent feminist such as Gloria steinman come out to defend and make speeches for Hillary? Because right now it seems Michelle Obama is alone out there doing all the fighting?
Gloria Steinem and Madeleine Albright were out on the trail back during the primaries, remember? They spoke off the cuff and got outback through the ringer, so they’re not, that I A aware of.
They did
I’m not sure but I would imagine that Team HRC is reluctant to turn this election into a “feminist” issue which might alienate certain voters. I can imagine Trump turning it into an ” all feminists are man haters” type situation.
With you, +1,ooo,ooo
I was talking about now. Primaries were a while back after all and she was not being attacked like this.
And if he and his camp would turn it into a feminist hate all men type as you say, then why should Michelle take all the heat alone? This would have been a perfect time to come together as women.
I’m confused – how does Michelle’s comment about keeping a house together have anything to do with Hillary? Like how did he get from point A to point B on that one?
I thought that my English was not enough good to understand what he said but apparently I am not the one to think that he is incoherent
It’s incoherent. I have rarely seen a complete, logical sentence in any transcript.
Instead of explaining policies and plans, it’s a word salad.
Speaking of word salad makers, I look forward to his following Sarah’s descent into almost-oblivion. He’ll likely attempt some type of TV deal, but I have a feeling we’ll hear little about him (other than legal tangles) by this time next year. One can hope.
He’s grasping at straws at this point, he knows POTUS, FLOTUS and HRC have him by the short and curlies.
Eeeeewwwww! What an image!!😱😱😱😱
My MIL showed me this thing (email, FB, I don’t know). It was a picture of MObama giving THE SPEECH, said something about how Trump’s words shook her to her core. I told my MIL I didn’t want to talk about politics with her. She said oh I’m not, just look at this. Next was a pic of Beyoncé on stage shaking her booty up in the air, said something about how MObama thinks Beyoncé is a good role model for her girls. My MIL was all “can you believe this woman (MO).” I told her the difference was that Trump was talking about doing things to women without their consent, while Beyoncé was choosing what she did with her body.
I’m not surprised Trump is going after MO. What does he have to lose at this point?
I’m going to risk offending you (or rather, your MIL) by asking this, but how can people be this unintelligent? I mean, the leaps in logic is almost impressive in that you have to completely abandon common sense and critical thinking to compare those two situations.
It’s absolutely terrifying to think that some of these people will vote…
Thinking about this a lot. I think it is rape culture and conservatism so ingrained that some people are unaware of it.
To “size does matter” yes
I think many people can convince themselves of anything, if they try hard enough, and are so set in their beliefs that facts, truth, logical thinking, etc, don’t matter to them.
Keep it up, Donald. Everytime you open your mouth you are digging a bigger hole for yourself and your campaign.
I don’t think there is anything else left to be dug. The crater is unplugged on both ends at this point.
My cats speak more clearly and intelligently than this sputtering orange squash brain.
Hell, even old Dubya could string complete sentences together and sound smarter than a second grader, on occasion.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-vocabulary_us_580d458de4b0a03911ed69b6?section=
Nuff said.
Remember that show “Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader?”
I’d like to pitch “Can You Speak More Coherently Than Donald Trump?”
Contestants go into one of those booths with strong fans, blowing pieces of paper with words on them. They have to catch the words and stick them to the wall in the order they catch them. If it makes more sense that a Trump sentence, they win a cash prize.
Bonus points if you catch the words “Tremendous” “Wrong” or “Disaster”.
Brilliant.
..and don’t forget “terrible”.
“Terrible Disaster” gets you to the lightning round.
I’l liking this idea.
Don’t forget, bigly and yuge.
Both suck. End of story. Who cares what they both say. All lies and nothing done. Our economy still sucks, there are no jobs, businesses are still leaving our country, education has not improved, relationship over seas are weak, immigrants are still having babies in our country once they get pass the borders air or land. Tell me folks, which of you are willing to give up your house and bank accounts to make one of these things better?
Troll detected. Do Not Engage.
Which bridge are you living under TROLLgirl?
I don’t live under a bridge Jade shit.
Picking a fight with Michelle Obama is quite possibly dumbest move yet.
I did not know she holds a cabinet position that she’s deserting or that she even is a government employee. Seems to me that campaigning against this pathetic, narcissistic, mysogynist, would be the most important thing she could be doing right now.
Oh my lovely nasty ladies of CBS! Y’all are on fire today and thank you for the incredible comments…makes me proud to be a Nasty woman! I might have to get a card made!
Ugh this troll is in my state (FL) again this week & the tickets to go see him sold out in seconds! My friends and I are debating going to protest but to also see the idiots who like this man! I swear there’s an orange mist in the air & it’s hard to breath! Can’t wait for this to all be over!
Early voting started today in Florida. Don’t waste your breath protesting…vote! Please!
I don’t early vote. I like going on the day & I’ve been voting since I was 18. No worries over here.
Oh, im in FL. How do i vote early? I can go to the polls already or do you mail it in? Please let me know. I want to get trump the buck outta here asap
To Snowflake. Sorry I’m late responding. My town has voting at our library and at the Supervisor of Elections Office. You just need ID. I was done in 5 minutes – no lines and a whole lot less “watchers” than there will be on Election Day.
He’s SELLING tickets? I saw Obama – free tickets.
No it’s free.
Money is the only god trump worships.
I was lucky enough to see POTUS this weekend at a rally for HRC in Vegas this weekend. He didn’t diss Trump – but when his name was mentioned, and people boo’ed, he said “don’t boo – VOTE”. He didn’t encourage it, seek it out or whip it up – like Trump does. “When they go low, we go high” Classy, through and through.
Pure class.
And an important reminder – she’s in the lead, but nothing is set in stone yet. People can’t get complacent.
Are the results of early voting made available to the public at any point before Nov. 8?
No. If I’m not mistaken, we can extrapolate how the early voting states are going based on who voted but we don’t get actual results.
And thank goodness because if my polling place today is any indication, Trump might actually be ahead. I could tell some people there had never voted before. And one person — I swear on all that is holy — actually asked how he could vote for Trump and Kaine instead of Pence. I wasn’t sure if I should laugh or cry.
Thanks. Can I ask what gets extrapolated? Do you mean, the Mormoms and the car dealers all voted and we know they are GOP, so it’s a vote for them, or do you mean all the eligible voters in Dallas, known to be blue voted, so it was a vote for the Dems?
I read an article today regarding how these type of early polls are done. They take the number of early voters by week, and applying the current poll averages to extrapolate.
If the poll averages this week are 50 for her and 45 for him, then they assume 10,000 early votes cast in Virginia that week means roughly 5,000 votes for her and 4,500 for him. Supposedly this week by week approach has ended up fairly close to the mark.
Thanks so much, Christin. I’m getting an excellent education in American politics the past couple of weeks.
NY Times Gold: A List of every insult Trump has spewed on Twitter
It constituted two full printed pages!
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/01/28/upshot/donald-trump-twitter-insults.html
Pure class, he can’t buy it, negotiate it or intimidate it. Go away little orange fool, you and your brand are done. Sigh, are we there yet?