Donald Trump dominated the weekend, again, responding to the suggestion raised by Fox's Megyn Kelly in Thursday's debate that he might come across as a misogynist with a misogynistic tirade against Kelly. With all political media demanding that Trump apologize to Kelly, Trump
continues to be Trump.
Donald Trump thinks Megyn Kelly should be apologizing to him for asking a “stupid” and “unfair” question.
“She should really be apologizing to me, you want to know the truth. And other candidates have said that,” Trump said Monday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” […]
Trump blamed the media for fueling the controversy behind his latest statement that Kelly had “blood coming out of her wherever.”
“Who would say such a thing? I really said nothing, because I wanted to get on to jobs and whatever the next subject was,” Trump said Monday during an earlier telephone interview with NBC News’ Savannah Guthrie on “Today.”
The "blood out of her whatever" line
uttered Friday night in an interview with CNN's Don Lemon dominated the weekend. Trump was
asked about it by Chuck Todd on
Meet the Press, telling Todd "[w]hen I'm attacked, I fight back. When I was attacked viciously by those women, of course, it's very hard for them to attack me on looks, because I'm so good looking. […] But I was attacked very viciously by those women." Pause a moment to consider that Donald Trump dominated this Sunday's
Meet the Press. Thanks, Chuck Todd.
The fallout from Trump's comments has also been generating media ink, including the fact that noted sexist Erick Erickson disinvited Trump from the annual RedState gathering and instead invited Kelly, with whom he once publicly fought over his statement that it's scientifically proven that women are inferior to men. Also, too, there's the question of whether or not Trump aide Roger Stone resigned or was fired over a conflict about the whole Megyn Kelly situation. Stone insists he quit because the fight was distracting from "core issue messages." Because the Trump campaign so far has been all about the issues messaging.
Meanwhile, an online poll conducted by NBC post-debate has Trump leading his nearest competitor, Ted Cruz, by 10 points. The dominant question for all the other candidates this weekend: How do you feel about Trump?