The Time Donald Trump Dismissed Half of America as Losers He has targeted his own "deplorables."

Despite Trump's purported outrage over the Clinton remark, the mogul has engaged in his own demonization of Americans that has echoed the "47 percent" comment that landed Mitt Romney in trouble during the 2012 campaign. More than once, the reality television celebrity has dismissed tens of millions of Americans—up to half of all Americans—as shiftless people with no desire to work.



Trump had expressed this view before. During a January 2015, interview with Kasie Hunt of MSNBC, he proclaimed, "We have a tremendous amount of people in this country that don't want to work. They have no inclination to work."

When Romney was caught saying that 47 percent of Americans do not accept the responsibility to take care of themselves, Trump declared that Romney should not apologize because he was essentially correct. "You do have a large percentage of people not paying taxes," Trump said at the time. "You do have a large percentage of people that feel they're entitled." Entitled to handouts and a free ride, that is.

Trump does appear to believe that the United States is full of losers. During a campaign stop in Wisconsin in March, he groused:

Now you have people that aren’t working. Look, it's all about incentive. People have to want to go out, they have to want to. We have no incentive in our country anymore. We're losing in every way. We're losing in that way because we have so many people that don’t want to work. We have so many people that if given the right incentive would love to work, but they'd love to do it. We don’t have incentives anymore. We don’t have spirit anymore. Our country doesn’t have spirit. We lose in so many ways.