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Trump insults Fiorina's looks
The campaign for middle school president took another ugly turn today.
Trump insults Fiorina in Rolling Stone: 'Look at that face!'
Donald Trump latest's close-up is coming from the unlikeliest of magazines: Rolling Stone.
When the magazine's cover story came out on Wednesday, the most-talked-about passage was a Trump comment about rival Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina.
According to writer Paul Solotaroff, he was sitting with Trump watching a newscast when a video clip zoomed in on Fiorina.
"Look at that face! Would anyone vote for that?" Trump said to Solotaroff. "Can you imagine that, the face of our next president."
Trump added, "I mean, she's a woman, and I'm not s'posedta say bad things, but really, folks, come on. Are we serious?"
Solotaroff continued his cover story (headlined "Taking Trump Seriously") by saying:
"And there, in a nutshell, is Trump's blessing and his curse: He can't seem to quit while he's ahead. The instincts that carried him out to a lead and have kept him far above the captious field are the same ones that landed him in ugly stews with ex-wives, business partners, networks, supermodels and many, many other famous women."
The quotes stirred controversy on Twitter Wednesday evening. A spokeswoman for the Trump campaign declined to comment.
In an interview on Fox News, Fiorina sidestepped questions about Trump. "I think those comments speak for themselves," she told Megyn Kelly.
Fiorina said "I have no idea" what Trump meant, but "maybe, just maybe, I'm getting under his skin a little bit, because I am climbing in the polls."
On CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360," Republican strategist Ana Navarro predicted that at next week's primary debate, "she's going to look Donald Trump right into his face and say to him, 'Really, Donald? Really? You think you can criticize my looks?'"
Republican commentator Ken Cuccinelli, a former Virginia attorney general, said Trump's barb directed at Fiorina is "going to cause him problems, as it probably should."
That said, Trump has proven uniquely able to withstand periods of outrage over controversial comments in the past.
The Trump interview and cover shoot with Rolling Stone was arranged back in August. It came as something of a surprise because the magazine is well known for its progressive bent. Its publisher Jann Wenner is a staunch supporter of Democrats.
A spokeswoman for the magazine said the issue -- dated September 24 -- will hit newsstands on Friday.
We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.
- Just Fred
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The guy is a loose cannon.
- florentine
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Sometimes I think this is a huge joke and that he is purposely trying to be as outrageous and obnoxious as he possible can be. I mean come on....can someone actually be like this?
- Rongone
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Re: Trump insults Fiorina's looks
C'mon you guys . . . The Donald clarified those misinterpreted, off-the-cuff remarks:
“Probably I did say something like that about Carly. I’m talking about persona, I’m not talking about look, although when I get criticized for my hair, which isn’t that bad — you know, you’ve seen me, right? It’s not that bad. Well, when I get criticized … about my hair, nobody does a story about, ‘Oh, isn’t that terrible. They criticized Donald Trump’s hair,’ ” Mr. Trump said on “Fox and Friends.”
“The fact is I probably did say that about Carly … in a jocular manner, obviously,” Mr. Trump said Thursday.
Mr. Trump said Mrs. Fiorina has been hitting him “constantly” and that he’s a “counter-puncher.”
“The persona, the persona,” he said. “And I say that. And I say that about a lot of people — I say, ‘Look at that.’ Look — how does that … that’s not going to be our president,” he said.
Mr. Trump pointed out that he had said Mrs. Fiorina should be on the main debate stage in the upcoming GOP presidential debate “because, frankly, she’s doing better than Rand Paul and some of these other clowns that we have, and she should be on the stage.”
“And she actually said nice [things], but then she went right back to hitting Trump,” he said. “You know, they have to hit me because maybe that’s where the money is, who knows.”
See . . . He was talking about her persona . . . Not her facial expressions or comparative physical attributes . . . Just her persona . . . Get it? 
- Goose
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So, when The Donald was screaming "Look at her face" he was, of course, not talking about her face.
Makes perfect sense.
We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.
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He has the worst rug in the universe and he's criticizing the way someone else looks?
If you make yourself miserable trying to make others happy that means everyone is miserable.
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