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However, many people don’t know what to say when a Trump
supporter says, “Why shouldn’t I vote for him? Hillary’s the
devil!”
Hillary Derangement Syndrome isn’t a good enough reason to vote
for Trump, though, especially since there’s no proof of all those accusations
of crimes, whatever the right-wing “We just KNOW she’s a
criminal!” crowd says.
Here’s a long list of reasons why Trump has
neither the mentality, nor the temperament, to be President.
Trump denied housing to black people and lied to black applicants about
apartment availability in violation of the Fair Housing Act.
He
stereotyped black people as welfare recipients by complaining that the
government was trying to force him to rent to welfare recipients in the wake of
this scandal.
Casino
bosses felt compelled to order black
people off the floors
when Donald and Ivana would visit.
Trump ran smear campaigns against the Central Park Five, a group
consisting of four black males and one Latino male, who were sent to prison for
a brutal rape they didn’t commit. He still smears them.
Trump actually said,
“Black guys counting my money! I hate it,” and “I think that the guy is lazy.
It’s probably not his fault, because laziness is a trait in blacks. It really
is.”
He wanted “The
Apprentice: White People vs. Black People”.
He
was a major player in the birther lies about President Obama, including claiming Obama was a “secret Muslim.”
He
believes well-educated black people have
advantages over
well-educated white people in the jobs market.
He
said that Obama hadn’t been very good for “the thugs who are so happily and openly destroying Baltimore.”
He
openly praised some of his supporters for beating up a Black Lives Matter
protester at one of his rallies.
He
said black people live in poverty, with terrible schools, and then asked them what they had to lose voting for him.
He called Mexicans “criminals and rapists.”
He denigrated Judge Gonzalo Curiel,
who’s presiding over one of the Trump U. cases, saying his Mexican heritage
meant he was biased against Trump.
He
said Mexicans and other immigrants were killers and rapists.
He
accused Mexico of sending their bad people up to us to deal with.
In
response to questions about these comments, he said, “Well,
somebody’s doing the raping, Don! I mean somebody’s doing it! Who’s doing the
raping? Who’s doing the raping?”
He
made a very similar comment about Muslims about 9/11: “Well,
somebody’s blowing us up. Somebody’s blowing up buildings, and somebody’s doing
lots of bad stuff.”
He
said “I love Hispanics!” in a tweet of himself eating from a taco bowl in Trump Tower
(this is like eating a watermelon or fried chicken and saying, “I love black
people!”).
He
called supporters who beat up a homeless Hispanic man “passionate.”
He lied about Native Americans having a well-documented history of
criminal activity to stop them from building a casino that would compete with
his casinos in Atlantic City.
He told the House Native American Affairs
Subcomittee that the Mashantucket Pequot Nation, a Native American community in
Connecticut near where he wanted to open a casino “don’t look like Indians to
me. They don’t look like Indians to Indians.”
He’s repeatedly called Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who has
Cherokee ancestry, “Pocahontas.”
He’s
told Jews that he’s a negotiator,
just like them, and doubled down on that stereotype that Jews control the
world’s business dealings by saying, “Is there anyone who doesn’t renegotiate
deals in this room?”
He
said Jews weren’t going to support him because he doesn’t want their money.
They’re going to want “their own politician.”
He wanted to rent apartments only to “Jews and executives.”
He
tweeted an anti-Semitic picture of Hillary Clinton.
He
wants to ban all Muslims from entering the U.S., and force the
Muslims already living here to register and wear some kind of ID.
He
said there’s no choice but to close down mosques in the U.S.
When
attacking the Khans—the Gold Star family who lost their son in Iraq and blasted
him from the stage of the DNC—he mocked both Khizr and his wife, Ghazala, for their
culture by saying, “If you look at his wife, she was standing there. She had
nothing to say. She probably, maybe she wasn’t allowed to have anything to say.
You tell me.”
He will not condemn the white nationalists/supremacists
that make up the core of his base, and claims not to know who some of them,
like David Duke, are.
Trump is a danger to women and
girls
He’d shut down the U.S. government if it would help get Planned
Parenthood defunded.
He
believes sexual assault in the military is the inevitable result of putting men and women together.
He believes pregnancy is an inconvenience to business.
He
believes that women who are sexually harassed at work should find another career.
He even says his own daughter should do that.
He bragged about sexually assaulting
and harassing women
with Billy Bush on a bus for “Access Hollywood.”
The
women who won on “The Apprentice” did so largely on their sex appeal.
He
asked the men on “The Apprentice” to rate the women there on their physical attributes.
He’s
told women they wouldn’t have their jobs if they weren’t beautiful, and fired
women for losing their looks.
He
painted women who won’t sign pre-nups as calculating gold-diggers, and
accused women in general of being nothing more than manipulators of men in his
book, The Art of the Comeback.
He believes women enable their husbands’ philandering (so
Melania does, too, we suppose).
He
admitted to ogling Hillary Clinton during the 2nd general election debate, saying he
“wasn’t impressed.”
He
loves lines in movies that demean women, such
as, “Bitch, be quiet,” from “Pulp Fiction.”
He’s
“joked” that if Ivanka wasn’t his daughter, he’d be dating her.
He’s talked about Ivanka as a “piece of ass.”
He told two 14-year old girls that he’d be dating them in a couple
of years.
He
said something similar about a 10-year old girl.
He wasn’t afraid to say that a 12-year old Paris Hilton was
hot.
He
thinks walking into a dressing room full of undressed, underage girls is
perfectly okay.
He
got into a months-long feud with Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly because she dared to ask him
about his sexism in the 1st GOP
primary debate.
He’s
stalked and harassed other female reporters who were negative about him.
He said, “Women, you
have to treat ’em like shit.”
He
pitched a show he wanted to call “Lady or a Tramp?” It was to be a reality show about out-of-control party girls, and
whether they could be turned into “ladies.”
He
called a breastfeeding mother “disgusting” because she needed a break from a
court deposition to pump her breasts.
He has a history of calling women “ugly,” “slobs,” “pigs,” “dogs,”
“bimbos,” “Miss Piggy,” and other misogynistic terms.
Trump is a pathological liar
He
keeps claiming that polls show that he won the first two debates in
landslides (the credible
polls show nothing of the sort)
He claimed he never told people to check out Alicia Machado’s sex tape (he literally said “check out [her] sex tape”)
He
says Hillary has no childcare plan (it’s been available for months)
He
said that Obama and Hillary are the founders of ISIS (no, not even close)
He
claimed to have sent investigators to Hawaii to investigate Obama’s birth
certificate, and said that they couldn’t believe what they were finding (har de har har)
He
said that the NFL sent him a letter complaining about the debate schedule (the NFL statedthey did
no such thing)
He
blasted the 2016 omnibus spending bill as funding a flood of undocumented
immigrants (it strengthened border security)
He
ran an ad claiming to show Mexicans streaming across our border (the footage of people streaming
across a border was actually from Morocco)
He
claimed thousands of Arabs in New Jersey were cheering in the streets as the Twin Towers fell (he’s the only one who ever saw this)
He
keeps saying he can’t release his tax returns because of an audit (the IRS says otherwise)
He
said he has a fiduciary duty to his businesses and his family to
pay as little tax as possible (no such fiduciary duty exists since these are personal
returns, not corporate returns)
He
claims it was Hillary who started the birther conspiracy (she didn’t, here’s who did)
He
says he never supported the war in Iraq (he said on Howard Stern’s show that he supported it)
He
claimed Hillary would print instant work permits for undocumented immigrants (they wouldn’t be instant, and
such permits would go to foreign graduate
students already
here legally)
He
claims NATO created a new terrorism division because of him (he had nothing to do with it)
He
says Hillary filibustered away legislation that would have reformed Fannie Mae
and Freddie Mac (the bill never even faced a cloture vote)
He’s
said we’ve got no system to vet refugees (we have an extensive system to vet them)
He
said that the wives and families of the 9/11 hijackers were sent back to Saudi Arabia two days before the attacks for safety (total baloney)
He
claimed that Trump University had an A rating from the Better Business Bureau (not really; it did once,
but its final rating was a D-)
He
accused Ted Cruz of having a double passport (there’s no such thing as a double
passport, and Cruz renounced his Canadian citizenship in
2014)
He
said that Syrian Christians can’t come into the U.S. (we have no religious test for refugees)
Trump sees himself as a victim
He
sued the Department of Justice for defamation after they sued him for violating the
Fair Housing Act
He
has threatened multiple outlets, including with lawsuits and even sent
cease-and-desist letters, for making him look bad. Such outlets include:
- The New York Times
- Vice (a reporter was arrested outside a campaign event)
- The Village Voice (he threatened to sue an individual reporter)
- Chicago Tribune
- The Onion (what?)
- The Daily Beast
- National Hispanic Media
- The Washington Post
- People Magazine (Melania actually threatened this one)
- The Associated Press
He
also threatened to sue Ted Cruz over alleged voter fraud in Iowa after losing the primary
there.
He
threatened to sue Cruz over a negative political ad.
He
wanted to sue Bill Maher after Maher bet $5 million for Trump to prove he “wasn’t the
spawn of his mother having sex with an orangutan.”
He
tried to sue reporter Timothy O’Brien for questioning his wealth in a 2005 biography called
“TrumpNation.”
One of his advisors said,
“Every critic, every detractor, will have to bow down to President Trump.”
He
vowed to get revenge on Republicans who turned their backs on him
following the revelations that he’s a sexual predator.
He
threatened to start a super-Pac in 2018 for the sole purpose of taking down
both Ted Cruz and John Kasich for perceived slights during and after the
primaries.
He
believes that his poll numbers are falling apart because of an international conspiracy involving
Hillary, Democrats, banks, and the media, rather than because of anything he’s
done.
He
believes Hillary has corrupted the FBI so they would absolve her of
wrongdoing in her email scandal.
He
believes that immigration officials are allowing undocumented
immigrants into the
country specifically to vote for Hillary.
He
thinks that Hillary conspired with the debate
organizers to hold the
first two debates on NFL game days, in an effort to ensure fewer people saw him
on the debate stages.
He
believes that the entire election is rigged because Hillary isn’t in prison,
and has repeatedly threatened to jail her after he’s elected.
There’s
a strong possibility that his entire circus of a campaign is his revenge on a political class that’s been
laughing at him for 30 years.
He
repeatedly and viciously attacked a Gold Star family who angered him from the stage of the
DNC.
He
said he wanted to hit other DNC speakers “so hard, their heads will spin.”
He
wants to “open up libel laws”
after he’s elected for the sole purpose of suing the press for saying bad
things about him.
Trump is a scam artist
He has funneled millions from his campaign to his own
businesses, legally, but with clear intent to line
his own pockets with campaign funds.
He
used Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection to insulate himself from the fallout of his failed
business ventures. He claims he was “just playing the game.”
He tried to force tenants on Central Park South out of their
rent-controlled apartments so he could knock the building down and build
expensive luxury condos.
He used undocumented Polish immigrants to help build his signature Trump
Tower, in New York. Part of the purpose of this was to avoid paying union
pensions and other compensation.
He
had his father swoop in on one of his troubled Atlantic City casinos and buy $3.5 million worth of chips instead of getting a
bank loan, which was a violation of New Jersey gaming laws.
He
has refused to pay his contractors,
along with workers such as plumbers and even dishwashers, in his buildings. His
excuses are along the lines of bad workmanship, but other employees admitted in
court that some managers determined painters had already been paid enough, so
he refused to pay any more.
He bought up tons of his own books to drive their sales
up.
His
non-profit organization, the Trump Foundation, can’t legally solicit donations because it never filed the requisite
paperwork through the State of New York. Records show that the foundation didn’t always make the donations it claimed. It’s also
implicated in some of the donations to states’ attorneys
general that were
initiating investigations into him.
His
businesses have had business in Cuba, in one way or another, for at least the
last 20 years,in violation of the embargo.
He claims this isn’t true.
How
anybody can vote for Trump, knowing all of this? He has no
business being anywhere near the White House. Ever.
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