The Trump Effect: Our kids and country are still being contaminated

History lesson? Hardly.

That’s what many teachers who assigned American kids to watch the presidential debates as homework thought they were doing.

But presidential politics is your new sex-ed, kids. And Donald Trump is the sickening teacher.

Just wait until they start acting this stuff out.

We’ve been here before, of course, when Bill Clinton was in office and parents had to explain other ways people use cigars. Naturally, Trump couldn’t resist reminding us of all those scandals as he tried to deflect his own — a relentless and appalling loop of him bragging in 2005 about kissing, groping and hitting on women.

Parents nationwide scrambled to change channels and turn dials as the day’s news became nastier than uncensored Lil Wayne.

You think we reached a new low earlier this year, when white kids chanted “Build the wall” at Latino kids at a basketball game? Or when the Muslim kids at an elementary school were told they’d be deported soon? Or when the black kids on a hockey team got hit with the n-word over and over again during a game?

We can now add to that list the kindergartners and first-graders confused by reports of a presidential candidate describing grabbing kitty cats.

Welcome to The Trump Effect, in full blossom.

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