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Press Call with Former Miss Universe Alicia Machado (Original Post) brooklynite Sep 2016 OP
CNN said she's going full surrogate bigtree Sep 2016 #1
It's a beautiful thing- seeing women all at once saying "enough" there is so much bettyellen Sep 2016 #4
The Clinton campaign was ready to make use of this opportunity Gothmog Sep 2016 #2
Drumpf is so predictable. NYC Liberal Sep 2016 #7
Yup... if you just bring her out, it seems like reaching alcibiades_mystery Sep 2016 #10
It's all he was able to talk about this morning. Frank Cannon Sep 2016 #12
He'll be talking about it for a week. NYC Liberal Sep 2016 #13
He's a petulant child. Frank Cannon Sep 2016 #14
You're so right. He is the Grand Poobah of Shallow Thinking. catbyte Sep 2016 #16
That's right now. ffr Sep 2016 #3
Very powerful. First person accounts of his -ism of the day really hit home. CincyDem Sep 2016 #5
Good points karynnj Sep 2016 #9
Love This Video Osakagreg Sep 2016 #6
very very good! . . . . . n/t annabanana Sep 2016 #11
Good for her. sheshe2 Sep 2016 #8
why isn't that fat pig's weight an issue? Gabi Hayes Sep 2016 #15
He was completely blindsided by this, too. "Where did you get that! Where did you get that!" Tarc Sep 2016 #17

bigtree

(85,999 posts)
1. CNN said she's going full surrogate
Tue Sep 27, 2016, 12:49 PM
Sep 2016

...hitting the trail for Hillary. It should make a positive impact in the Latino communities she's able to reach, and others.

 

bettyellen

(47,209 posts)
4. It's a beautiful thing- seeing women all at once saying "enough" there is so much
Tue Sep 27, 2016, 12:58 PM
Sep 2016

Pressure on women to downplay sexism and Trump has brought them to a boiling point. The world is going to see us rise this year!

NYC Liberal

(20,136 posts)
7. Drumpf is so predictable.
Tue Sep 27, 2016, 01:02 PM
Sep 2016

Hillary set the trap last night bringing Alicia up and Drumpf took the bait hook, line, and sinker...just as she knew he would.

 

alcibiades_mystery

(36,437 posts)
10. Yup... if you just bring her out, it seems like reaching
Tue Sep 27, 2016, 01:24 PM
Sep 2016

But when you have Trump on Fox and Friends calling her awful, it just looks like she is defending herself. It looked like even that half-witted imbecile Brian Kilmeade could see the trap unfolding under Trump's feet. His face was all "Oh shit, is this woman still alive, because if she is...FUUUUUUCK."

Frank Cannon

(7,570 posts)
12. It's all he was able to talk about this morning.
Tue Sep 27, 2016, 01:35 PM
Sep 2016

You could see he was gobsmacked by it last night, and it's really bothering him that he can't control the message.

NYC Liberal

(20,136 posts)
13. He'll be talking about it for a week.
Tue Sep 27, 2016, 01:44 PM
Sep 2016

Did you notice how quickly he forgot about the email crap as soon as she goaded him by saying he's not releasing his tax returns because "maybe he's not as rich as he claims"?

Frank Cannon

(7,570 posts)
14. He's a petulant child.
Tue Sep 27, 2016, 02:18 PM
Sep 2016

The entire night, all I could think about is that there is a good chance that this obvious out-of-his-depth maniac might be our new President. And by "good chance", I mean greater than zero. Because it's horrifying that he has any support from anyone who professes to love this country.

He is a man-baby. He has tiny hands and a tiny mind. He has no understanding of any issue that affects any other American other than himself. Like a little child, he blames everyone and everything afterwards for the disaster he, himself, has wrought. Like a toddler in a glass shop, he just keeps picking things up and dropping them on the floor, smashing and breaking them, and no one calls him out for it.

ffr

(22,671 posts)
3. That's right now.
Tue Sep 27, 2016, 12:50 PM
Sep 2016

Uh-oh! tRumps sexist record is coming home to roost and it ain't looking pretty. No pun intended.

CincyDem

(6,364 posts)
5. Very powerful. First person accounts of his -ism of the day really hit home.
Tue Sep 27, 2016, 01:00 PM
Sep 2016


Instead of having someone say "here's what he did to someone else", it is much stronger to hear someone say "here's what he did to me".

He's getting confused because he thinks he's right on the weight change and he believes, at some level, that if he can just convince people that she really did gain weight...they'll agree with him that Ms. Piggy was an appropriate term.

Same with his comment about Rosie - he said something like "...and I think most people would agree with me" when defending his comments about her.

WTF is wrong with him and the group of people he surrounds himself with. Gaining or not gaining weight isn't the issue. It's the name calling.

Ms. M could end up being one of her strongest surrogates.

karynnj

(59,504 posts)
9. Good points
Tue Sep 27, 2016, 01:20 PM
Sep 2016

It is extremely disgusting when you see this gorgeous, friendly looking 19 year old, working for the Miss Universe company having had what had to be a dream win of the title- in a foreign country, where everyone speaks a foreign language and the boorish head of the company is calling her hurtful names and insulting her. Then he didn't pay her the money she was owed.

When you look past the obvious poise and beauty of this young girl, you see a very vulnerable person, who may have not had a strong support network with her as she traveled as Miss Universe.

I would say that even in what had to be the embarrassing time when he forced her to work out in front of the media, she looks fantastically beautiful. How much better it would have been had they just finished the year with this lovely girl fulfilling her duties .. and getting paid for them.

 

Gabi Hayes

(28,795 posts)
15. why isn't that fat pig's weight an issue?
Tue Sep 27, 2016, 02:49 PM
Sep 2016

he's a bagel away from a stroke

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Tarc

(10,476 posts)
17. He was completely blindsided by this, too. "Where did you get that! Where did you get that!"
Tue Sep 27, 2016, 03:38 PM
Sep 2016

That was one of the highlights of this, and no doubt he's spent the hours and minutes since screaming at his inner circle.

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