13 October 2016

Donald Trump finally goes down


Who would think that Donald Trump finally would go down (at least that's what the national media is telling us).

To get to the national stage, Trump popularized the birther movement, claiming that President Barack Obama was not a native born U.S. citizen. I'm not sure if Trump was not aware that yes, Hawaii, is a state in the United States, and that his mother was from Kansas. Trump demanded that Obama, the president of the United States, show is birth certificate to the public. In what many thought was a very racist act. While with a certain population this was a turn off, surprisingly with others this was a plus.

Then in 2015 Trump announced he was running for president. Many thought this was a joke. Trump has no political experience, is a note-worthy businessman for good and bad reasons, and has a very abrasive personality.

In case you were on Mars and didn't have access to any media. One of Trump's first campaign promises was that he was going to build a wall between the U.S. and Mexico and have the Mexicans pay for this wall. While even many of supporters thought this would never actually happen, it was one of Trump's brilliant moves that earned him the Republican nominee for presidency. That and calling Jeb Bush "low energy."

Trump insulted Fox news anchor Megyn Kelly during one of the first Republican Primary debates. Refused to attend another. Yet this didn't slow down his campaign. It got to the point, where it seemed nothing could stop his campaign. He was gaining in the polls, to the point that it was a toss up between Hillary Clinton and him.

Then the first presidential debate occurred. Trump set his standards low, but surprisingly didn't even meet them. Then, the man who claimed he could "shoot someone on fifth avenue" and not lose support, did something unimaginable, but hoped by almost every reasonable citizen of our great country. He did something that lost him support.

He admitted that he groped women and it wasn't even recently.  In 2005, an entertainment reporter had Trump on a live mic, and Trump bragged about groping women. Trump thought he was a big celebrity, and could get away with it, or knowing how Trump is now, thought that the women enjoyed being groped by him. (Seeming how long it has taken for some of the women to come forward to complain, I could see how Trump might have been mistaken. For 11 years, Trump might have thought that these woman actually liked his groping.)

Trump was like a kid in a candy store, that was touching all the candy, even the candy he wasn't planning to buy, and even the candy that belonged to other kids. He thought he was a very important kid, who could get away with doing something like that. And then 11 years later, he found out, that all of that candy didn't like being touched. I'm sure some of that candy complained years ago. But that candy's voice was so small that it wasn't heard just by itself.  And touching candy you aren't supposed to touch, is a very big deal in American politics.

So now the presidential candidate, that labeled his competitors "Low Energy" or "Crooked", finally got a label himself. "Creepy" it might not rhyme as well as some of the labels he gave others, but it seemed to have stuck.

Of course, some of us, who disliked him because of his role in the Birther movement, his idea to build a wall with Mexico, his plan to not let any new Muslims settle in the country, his role in "Trump University", his business practices, I could probably name a few more reasons not to like Trump, his treatment of former Miss Universes. Anyhow, those of us, who strongly dislike the man, might be wondering if this "locker room" talk,  really will be the thing that finally sinks Trump.

It did happen 11 years ago for g-d sake. But we will take it.