In 95-minute tirade, Trump flips belt buckle to mock Carson
Source: CNN
Donald Trump on Thursday told Iowa's voters that those who support Ben Carson are "stupid" to believe the "crap" that is his life story, part of a stunning 95-minute tirade that included his most aggressive attack yet on his closest competitor.
The real estate mogul's pugnacious demeanor was a stark departure from the far more restrained Trump on display at Tuesday's debate, when he declined to attack Carson while standing right next to him. He criticized the retired neurosurgeon repeatedly, said Hillary Clinton is playing the "women's card big league," ridiculed Marco Rubio as "weak like a baby" and vowed to "bomb the s*** out of (ISIS)."
Toward the end of his wide-ranging complaints about the country and competition, Trump mocked Carson's narrative about his violent temper as a youth that was calmed only when he prayed to God and asked for deliverance, an event that Carson describes as a miracle. That story of redemption has underpinned much of Carson's support in the Hawkeye State.
At one point, Trump walked away from the podium and flipped his belt buckle up and down to ridicule what Carson has described as a key event in his life: that Carson, as a boy, once tried but failed to stab someone only to have the knife broken by a belt buckle.
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/12/politics/donald-trump-ben-carson-iowa-belt-stupid/index.html
Hmm...this is going to be an interesting shift to the Republican campaign...
Now, Trump pledged to support whomever the nominee was, right?
Paladin
(28,264 posts)olegramps
(8,200 posts)I doubt that many of the Republicans will think that these misfits are out of control. They will think it is normal behavior. Especially the crackpot evangelicals who eat up this type of crap preached weekly in their mega churches by some charlatan who is fleecing them.
Person 2713
(3,263 posts)nruthie
(466 posts)It's scary and repulsive to see this country lose its' collective mind. Too many people think this is all just fine and dandy. It makes me very sad.
olegramps
(8,200 posts)Ducksworthy
(55 posts)What are they going to say about him? What? Are they going to say he was a kind man? He was a wise man? He had plans? He had wisdom? Bullshit, man!
VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)To try and kick that goat off the top of the mound...
denbot
(9,900 posts)I am now coming to the conclusion that TPTB will force this farce into a brokered convention to try and Hail Mary a win out of this train wreck!
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)Not a vote yet. The GOP will have some establishment candidate like always. They have proportional points for southern states and winner takes all for blue states.
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)CTyankee
(63,912 posts)I'm scared of those two...
hatrack
(59,587 posts)The heads! You're looking at the heads. Sometimes he goes too far. He's the first one to admit it.
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)bulloney
(4,113 posts)He doesn't care what your political party is, he's just ripping everybody.
He must have gotten his feelings hurt or he must have felt he hasn't gotten enough attention lately.
Having said that, it's about time somebody called out Carson on all of the BS he's been spewing about his past and his views on history and government.
cynzke
(1,254 posts)Are on opposite sides of the SAME pathological coin! What is wrong with Iowan voters indeed!
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)calguy
(5,315 posts)I. diots
O. ut
W. andering
A. round
Codeine
(25,586 posts)Kurska
(5,739 posts)JackRiddler
(24,979 posts)Create the feeling that Carson is being treated unjustly!
Javaman
(62,530 posts)the Il Duce CEO.
hatrack
(59,587 posts).
Javaman
(62,530 posts)However, it's more accurate.
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)I didn't see your post when I called him Mussolini below. He really does have the strut of the guy!
Il Duce CEO. Love it.
tanyev
(42,568 posts)but I never dreamed it was going to be this entertaining.
livetohike
(22,145 posts)I know I am.
Geronimoe
(1,539 posts)Dr Ben shouldn't be running for President rather, leader of the cell block.
Let's face it Iowan's always vote for most lunatic candidate in the Republican primaries.
thesquanderer
(11,990 posts)re: "Now, Trump pledged to support whomever the nominee was, right?"
IIRC, he pledged not to run as a third party or independent in November if he weren't the Republican nominee. I don't think he went so far as to say he would "support" the nomineee. Also, I think he even allowed himself an out on running independent, by saying something along the lines of "as long as the Republican party treats me fairly."
bemildred
(90,061 posts)alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)That made me laugh so hard!
bemildred
(90,061 posts)cynzke
(1,254 posts)spiderpig
(10,419 posts)I am amazed.
Still makes for entertaining theater. (Puts feet up on Lazy Boy recliner and watches the show)
truthisfreedom
(23,148 posts)It's the base they're pandering to. Fundie Gundies who need to see a knock down drag out brawl to believe that they're making the right choice.
homegirl
(1,429 posts)The truth is they are both mentally disturbed. Alas, Babylon.
M.G.
(250 posts)Only thing funnier than the Republican freakshow's degenerate spectacle of generalized idiocy is that Trump is largely right in his attacks on Carson here. His language and oratorical tactics are excessive and obnoxious, but the gist is true.
Iowa would be indeed be "stupid", as Trump puts it, to vote for Carson. They'd be stupid to vote for Trump, too. That both front runners are, by any fair analysis, totally unsuited in every imaginable way for the job they seek, is one of the great joys of the contest - unless one actually wins the office...
PatSeg
(47,501 posts)called stupid. This should work out really well for Trump.
flamingdem
(39,313 posts)He can't stand being a few points down.
On the other hand at least he calls out bs religion, he's probably an atheist. Maybe he believes in a Roman god or two.
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)Trump be like, "Belt buckle, motherfucker? I really ain't hearin' it!"
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,586 posts)Castro's longest timed speech before the U.N. General Assembly in 1960 was 269 minutes.
At 95 minutes Trump would just be a warm up act.