Donald Trump has lots of excuses for why
what he said about Carly Fiorna's looks wasn't really about Fiorina's looks in a
Rolling Stone profile.
... Trump's expression sours in schoolboy disgust as the camera bores in on Fiorina. "Look at that face!" he cries. "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?"
The
initial excuse—when he said "Look at that face!" he wasn't talking about her face, it was about her "persona."
"We're really talking about not a physical thing, we're talking about the persona. This is a women that gets tremendous publicity," he said. "I don't know why…her past doesn’t go along with the publicity she's getting."
If there ever was a case of pot and kettle ... Then he tried out this—he's just an entertainer, who can take what he says seriously?
"Many of those comments are made as an entertainer because I did The Apprentice and it was one of the top shows on television," he told Greta Van Susteren on Thursday.
Next excuse—
Rolling Stone editors
added "a lot of garish stuff" to the interview.
"The writer actually called me and said, 'I'm so upset, I wrote this great story and [publisher] Jann Wenner screwed it up'— he told me that," Trump said on CNN's "New Day." "They added a lot of stuff, a lot of garish stuff, that I think is disgusting."
The writer
begs to differ: "He was not talking about her persona."
[Rolling Stone contributor Paul] Solotaroff described the scene on Trump's private plane for CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, saying there were two Donalds in the room. One, according to Solotaroff, is an "extraordinarily shrewd predator." The other has "this 12- to 14-year-old boy sort of permanently affixed to his inner life." […]
"The second guy in the room with us was this guy whose emotional development I think stopped around 13 or 14. The kid that made the crack about Carly. The guy who made the crack about his daughter. The guy who got tossed out of the posh prep schools in Queens and sent to a military academy upstate where no son of a rich man ever wind up unless he really deserves to be there," he said.
Which makes him a perfect Republican candidate. Nothing exemplifies the GOP more than a snotty, privileged adolescent.