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highplainsdem

(48,984 posts) Sun Oct 9, 2016, 11:59 PM Oct 2016

Professional athletes take issue with Trump’s ‘Locker room talk’

Source: AP via PBS

NEW YORK — CJ McCollum, Jamal Crawford and Jacob Tamme are among current and former professional athletes on social media to criticize Donald Trump’s characterization of his predatory, sexual comments about women from a 2005 video as “locker room talk.”

Trump’s campaign described his remarks as “locker room banter” in a statement Saturday, and the Republican presidential nominee repeated the line multiple times Sunday during the presidential debate with Hillary Clinton.

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“I haven’t heard that one in any locker rooms,” McCollum wrote on Twitter in a response to a tweet from Crawford. McCollum plays for the NBA’s Portland Trail Blazers and Crawford plays for the Los Angeles Clippers.

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Tamme, a tight end with the NFL’s Atlanta Falcons, asked that Trump “please stop saying ‘locker room talk,'” adding that “it’s not normal. And even if it were normal, it’s not right.”

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Read more: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/locker-room-talk-doesnt-sound-like-say-professional-athletes/

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Professional athletes take issue with Trump’s ‘Locker room talk’ (Original Post) highplainsdem Oct 2016 OP

Anyone running his mouth like that in front of a bunch of pro athletes truthisfreedom Oct 2016 #1

Love it ailsagirl Oct 2016 #2

Dung beetles? Feeling the Bern Oct 2016 #4

"And even if it were normal, it's not right." forgotmylogin Oct 2016 #3

K&R uppityperson Oct 2016 #5

This was bound to happen.. Thank you! "... It's Not Normal.." Cha Oct 2016 #6

Middle school boy's locker room, maybe. Odin2005 Oct 2016 #7

Hell, Orange Dumb F--k's maturity level isn't even preschool level. 47of74 Oct 2016 #11

It's country club locker room talk malachi Oct 2016 #8

Where beautiful wives and girlfriends are trophies for the rich. milestogo Oct 2016 #9

K&R smirkymonkey Oct 2016 #10

truthisfreedom

(23,148 posts)

1. Anyone running his mouth like that in front of a bunch of pro athletes

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Mon Oct 10, 2016, 12:05 AM

Oct 2016

Would end up 86ed and likely left with a broken jaw.

ailsagirl

(22,897 posts)

2. Love it

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Mon Oct 10, 2016, 12:06 AM

Oct 2016

Is there any group (aside from his followers) he hasn't alienated?

Feeling the Bern

(3,839 posts)

4. Dung beetles?

Reply to ailsagirl (Reply #2)

Mon Oct 10, 2016, 12:53 AM

Oct 2016

forgotmylogin

(7,528 posts)

3. "And even if it were normal, it's not right."

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Mon Oct 10, 2016, 12:39 AM

Oct 2016

Amen.

uppityperson

(115,677 posts)

5. K&R

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Mon Oct 10, 2016, 03:35 AM

Oct 2016

Cha

(297,244 posts)

6. This was bound to happen.. Thank you! "... It's Not Normal.."

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Mon Oct 10, 2016, 04:27 AM

Oct 2016

Odin2005

(53,521 posts)

7. Middle school boy's locker room, maybe.

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Mon Oct 10, 2016, 08:51 AM

Oct 2016

Which is about Trump's emotional maturity level, middle school.

47of74

(18,470 posts)

11. Hell, Orange Dumb F--k's maturity level isn't even preschool level.

Reply to Odin2005 (Reply #7)

Mon Oct 10, 2016, 02:32 PM

Oct 2016

He's a toddler in a 70 year old body. No sense of right or wrong, no impulse control, no ability to delay gratification, none of that. He simply is unable to function in civilized society.

Most people of more average means than that j--z trumpet who are like him are locked up either in prisons or mental institutions.