Donald Trump did his best to play the role of just another blandly evasive politician in an interview with a reporter from a Nevada NBC affiliate on Wednesday. “You have two beautiful daughters past their teenage years, can you understand the concern from parents of younger girls that some of your comments could be hurtful to girls struggling with body image and the pressure to be model perfect,” News 3’s Jim Snyder asked Trump.
"A lot of that was done for the purpose of entertainment, there's nobody that has more respect for women than I do," he said.
He was promoting The Apprentice! Everyone knows you can’t promote a reality TV show that’s supposedly about the workplace without demeaning women!
Seriously, he’s claiming something along the lines of “under other circumstances I sure would have liked to show my deep respect for women, but I had a television show to promote,” as if insulting and objectifying women in the crudest terms possible is the only way to get people to watch your show. It would say something about what gets Donald Trump to watch television shows if we believed this was anything other than a way to dodge the question. And there’s more:
"Are you trying to tone it down now," asked Snyder.
"It's not a question of trying, it's very easy," said Trump.
It’s very easy, is it? He doesn’t even need to try.
Do you think Alicia Machado agrees he’s toned it down? And if this is toning it down, what does that say?
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