Comb-over cannot cover up how Donald Trump thrives with his misogyny
LOOKING back on it, there was something very apt about the small group of females that assembled on the tarmac to greet one of our favourite billionaireâs Donald Trump at Shannon Airport last year.
It was his official arrival on Irish soil to have a look at his Doonbeg hotel and golf resort in Co Clare. On the morning he emerged from his private jet â presumably befitting his status as an international colossus â a red carpet was rolled out and three lovely cailĂnĂ dressed all in red stood there; one playing a harp, the other a fiddle, and the third singing. Watching the video, it looked utterly bizarre. They shivered in the early morning chill, but they were clearly professionals and they did the job they were engaged to do. Donald seemed most gracious. But then again he does prefer women in the entertainment role.
I couldnât help but ponder on the redness of the scene, the carpet, the dresses, and the bold red strip that circles his large plane, part of the Trump livery. Given the presidential nomination candidateâs obsession with female blood and the orifices from which it flows, I think that next time we want to give him a cĂ©ad mĂle fĂĄilte, we might consider a Shannon welcoming party of women dressed as giant red tampons.
Donald Trump professes love for women amid latest row http://t.co/na6SpGYTra pic.twitter.com/kbIcmEFDCS
— Irish Examiner (@irishexaminer) August 10, 2015
They donât have to be the model size either. The Donald knows that women come in all sizes and shapes. After all heâs come up with some choice descriptions for some well-known females in the past.
Donald calls it like it is. He knows we can be ugly, fat, slobs, pig-like, dog-like, not to mention downright obnoxious, especially when we are behaving in a professional role, such as Fox TV journalist Megyn Kelly.
That hussy just insisted on asking him âunfairâ questions on his attitudes to women during the Republican presidential debate.
This bimbo, as he described her afterwards, had the temerity to ask Trump about his well-recorded misogyny (just check out his Twitter feed for confirmation) and he said he didnât have time for political correctness, and nor did America. Afterwards, in an interview, spewing vitriol about the journalist, he said she had âblood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her whereverâ.
At this point Iâm coming out with my hands up to say that I am one of those âdeviantâ people, as Trump described them, who assumed that he was linking Kelly asking him âtoughâ questions to her menstruating and being cranky.
He got some choice tweets from men and women who were angry at his remark, but my favourite of these has to be the one that makes reference to his hair: âTammy the Tampon says periods are natural but combovers are not.â
Truly Donald must have appreciated this joke. How could you sport a haircut like that and not have a sense of humour?
Itâs a pity in many ways, really, that so many people think he crossed a bit of a line in insulting at least half of the US electorate, not to mention some of the rest of us around the world who are looking on with shock and awe at his behaviour and opinion poll success.
This man owns the Miss Universe and Miss USA pageants, and had he just managed to keep himself even vaguely in check he might have been asked to be a guest judge at the Rose of Tralee one year. I doubt theyâll ever ask him now though.
On a more serious note (must be the time of the month that has me getting all serious and cranky), there is the assertion by Donaldâs ex-wife Ivana Trump that she was raped by him when he was her husband.
The incident is said to have been preceded by Trump losing his temper following painful scalp reduction surgery to remove a bald spot. Ivanaâs sin was apparently to have recommended the plastic surgeon involved. These claims are included in a 1993 book, Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump.
The US website The Daily Beast recently published this old story, in which Ivana used the word ârapeâ to describe one of their sexual encounters. It was made in a deposition which was part of the early 1990s divorce case between the Trumps.
However, when Lost Tycoon was about to be printed, Donald Trump and his lawyers provided a statement from Ivana, which was posted on the first page of the book. In it, his ex-wife said she had âfelt violatedâ and that she had stated that her husband had raped her during a divorce deposition.
âDuring a deposition given by me in connection with my matrimonial case, I stated that my husband had raped me,â the Ivana Trump statement said. âOn one occasion during 1989, Mr Trump and I had marital relations in which he behaved very differently toward me than he had during our marriage. As a woman, I felt violated, as the love and tenderness, which he normally exhibited towards me, was absent. I referred to this as a ârapeâ, but I do not want my words to be interpreted in a literal or criminal sense.â
Always great being interviewed by @andersoncooper on #AC360 and talking @realDonaldTrump and #Trump2016. http://t.co/bFFJf8hO3M
— Michael Cohen (@MichaelCohen212) August 13, 2015
Itâs an ugly story, with further twists, but it is interesting for a number of reasons, not least that he accused Mexico of sending their most undesirable citizens to the US illegally, including drug dealers and rapists.
Donald Trump plans major speech at Mexico border http://t.co/WIIFe0XDOk pic.twitter.com/CaqRV3rOFQ
— Irish Examiner (@irishexaminer) July 23, 2015
It is worth pointing out that he does say nice things about his daughter Ivanka, though. He was asked the question, somewhat strangely it has to be said, whether he thought his daughter might at some point pose for Playboy. His reply leaves even the more verbose among us at a loss for words.
âI donât think Ivanka would do that, although she does have a very nice figure. Iâve said if Ivanka werenât my daughter, perhaps Iâd be dating her.â
Trump is such a pillock it seems beyond belief that he wonât shortly crash and burn, despite his current incredible support. The thing is, though, that heâs set such a low bar on the misogyny front for other Republican candidates that even remarks along the lines of âlegitimate rapeâ will seem less outrageous now.
Back on the Emerald Isle, Donald continues to invest in his Co Clare golf resort. I canât say that if I had the funds or the opportunity Iâd be tempted to add to his profits by staying at Doonbeg, although I respect that there are people being gainfully employed by him there.
It gives me particular pleasure to think the Government ignored his advice against selling the Stateâs shareholding in Aer Lingus.
I do understand how Finance Minister Michael Noonan might have thought it a good idea to be part of that welcoming party in Shannon Airport last year. But in order to avoid seriously cheesing off the female half of the Irish electorate heâs be better served to stay away from any future Oirish welcomes â unless, of course, heâs wants an input into planning the choreography for the song and dance routine from Theresa and the Tampon Trio.
