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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Fri Sep 30, 2016, 02:18 PM Sep 2016

‘Machado Meltdown’: The internet has a field day with Trump’s ‘sex tape’ freakout

After a relative month of calm, Donald Trump has gone back to his old ways this week after he lost Monday night’s big debate with Hillary Clinton.

On Friday morning, he went even further down the rabbit hole by telling voters to “check out” a nonexistent “sex tape” featuring former Miss Universe Alicia Machado.

Hillary Clinton quickly pounced on this and mocked Trump on Twitter for obsessively talking about about Machado over the past several days.

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LOLGOP
@LOLGOP

FYI: Trump's 18 years of fat shaming Alicia Machado is the longest commitment he's ever made to a woman.

9:07 AM - 30 Sep 2016
483 Retweets 1,000 likes


The Mountain Goats
@mountain_goats

With malice toward none, with charity for all, let us strive to check out sex tape

8:22 AM - 30 Sep 2016
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Brian Walsh
@brianjameswalsh

The guy who is literally coming apart at the seams over former Miss Universe would also have us believe he's the toughest to take on ISIS.

9:05 AM - 30 Sep 2016
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Jeet Heer ✔
@HeerJeet

"The better angels of our nature" -- Abraham Lincoln "I have a dream"-- MLK. "Check out sex tape" -- Donald J. Trump.

9:36 AM - 30 Sep 2016
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TBogg
@tbogg

Kellyanne Conway right now:


11:37 AM - 30 Sep 2016
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http://www.rawstory.com/2016/09/machado-meltdown-the-internet-has-a-field-day-with-trumps-sex-tape-freakout/
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‘Machado Meltdown’: The internet has a field day with Trump’s ‘sex tape’ freakout (Original Post) DonViejo Sep 2016 OP
OMG - hilarious! cyberswede Sep 2016 #1
Oh my! All of the above! Madam45for2923 Sep 2016 #2
Those are hysterical!! Jade Fox Sep 2016 #3
they're all funny but Brian Walsh's is funny/serious renate Sep 2016 #4
I've got a meeting next week with some Trump supporters and I've been Laura PourMeADrink Sep 2016 #5
I would argue that Trump's business success avebury Sep 2016 #10
Longest commitment to a woman wryter2000 Sep 2016 #6
I can imagine awoke_in_2003 Sep 2016 #7
Mr. Universe! klook Sep 2016 #8
Trump really needs one of those dog cones to keep him from chewing on his own wounds. Coyotl Sep 2016 #9
Hard to believe this election would provide so much laughter... Sancho Sep 2016 #11

renate

(13,776 posts)
4. they're all funny but Brian Walsh's is funny/serious
Fri Sep 30, 2016, 04:19 PM
Sep 2016

I just can't imagine being a Trump supporter right now and not feeling terribly ashamed of myself.

 

Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)
5. I've got a meeting next week with some Trump supporters and I've been
Fri Sep 30, 2016, 04:29 PM
Sep 2016

practicing.

they Always say "He tells it like it is and is a business person who will change things"

thinking about saying..."Well, yes, he has been extremely successful at business, but he seems to get distracted so easily when someone criticizes him, how do you know he'll have time to "fix the economy?" because people will still be criticizing him then"


And "I don't care what he did 20 years ago"

Me: "I agree 100%. But, last night he stayed up all night tweeting disparaging remarks about someone he knew 20 years ago. This is not very presidential. We thought he would start being presidential when he started running against Hillary. And, he didn't. What makes you so certain he will start if he wins?" and do you want your president tweeting bad things all night?

avebury

(10,952 posts)
10. I would argue that Trump's business success
Fri Sep 30, 2016, 05:30 PM
Sep 2016

is a figment of his imagination:

He has been on one side or the other of 3500 law suits

He has filed bankruptcy several times

He negotiates contracts yet fails to honor them when he continues to stiff his suppliers and contractors. If he negotiates a contract with the intention of not holding up his end of the contract by either refusing to pay some or all of the contract amount that would be fraud. If he continually refuses payment on the grounds that he is not satisified with the goods and/or services then he is lousy businesman for failing to do due dilligence in whom he chooses to negotiate with. If he is that dissatisfied with so many suppliers/contractors the problem is not them it is him. And he has publicly admitted that he has not problem reneging on his contracts which goes to his character. As the Trump supporters if they would be ok if Trump stiffed them or their company.

He is a pathological liar. It boggles the mind that he continues to deny saying things that can be factually proven through audio tapes, video tapes, books witten for him in his name, interviews.

He claims that, as President, he will renegotiate trade deals. Good luck with that one. What on earth would make him think that any foreign country would sit down with him for serious negotiations? If I were a foreign leader I would find my toughest negotiator and let him play with Trump with the point being there would never be any kind of deal struck. He is flat out not a trustworthy, reliable person. His track record should prohibit any foreign country ever taking him seriously.

He tries to talk a tough game but when it came down to it a strong Democratic woman wiped the ground with him, humiliating him in the process.

 

Coyotl

(15,262 posts)
9. Trump really needs one of those dog cones to keep him from chewing on his own wounds.
Fri Sep 30, 2016, 05:07 PM
Sep 2016

Joe Keohane ?@JoeKeohane 4 hours ago Brooklyn, NY
.@realDonaldTrump really needs one of those dog cones to keep him from chewing on his own wounds.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/01/us/politics/donald-trump-alicia-machado.html

Atomic Elbow ?@AtomicElbow1
Trump takes bait and poisons himself as predictably as a dog sits for a treat. Sad!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-alicia-machado_us_57ee3401e4b082aad9baa8f6

Matthew J Elliott ?@MatthewJElliot1 4 minutes ago
@realDonaldTrump Nobody will be at the rally - they're all on the internet, looking for that sex tape you recommended they watch.

JustVote ?@CatHolt79 9 minutes ago
@realDonaldTrump You know that is a lie. Check the facts people. No sex tape. Trump is a very sick man and needs treatment and meds.

Hispanic Atheists ?@HispanicAtheist 10 minutes ago
@realDonaldTrump The woman in the sex tape is not Machado, it's a lookalike. Stop jumping the gun, get off the coke & get some sleep.#sniff

Jackson Steele ?@askboomer1949 12 minutes ago
the bully fascist oligarch
Trump’s hypocritical cruelty peaks with Alicia Machado “sex tape” tweet:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2016/09/30/trump_s_hypocritical_cruelty_peaks_with_alicia_machado_sex_tape_tweet.html?wpsrc=sh_all_dt_tw_bot … via @doublexmag

Sancho

(9,070 posts)
11. Hard to believe this election would provide so much laughter...
Fri Sep 30, 2016, 05:38 PM
Sep 2016

I'm dying...and no one could have made this up...

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