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Five months before Election Day, presidential polls are little more than an excuse for political journalists to write lazy horserace stories. The snapshot of who's ahead and who's behind is largely meaningless, and the good stuff usually gets buried.
Take this latest Quinnipiac poll. It puts Hillary Clinton ahead of Donald Trump by four points, but that doesn't mean much this far out. The more interesting nugget is that 47 percent of Americans would rather have Trump come to their backyard barbecue than Clinton (who garnered 39 percent). Now that's some serious data worth examining further.
Forty-seven percent of Americans, what are you thinking? I know Mitt Romney was mean to you that one time, but that's no reason for decision-making this awful. No matter your politics, you should be able to see Donald Trump would be a terrible guest at your barbecue. He'd ruin it, in fact. Here's how.
He'd hand his empty plate to the nearest Latino guest.
Trump talks a lot about how "the Hispanics" love him because he employs so many of them (and because he eats fried tortillas filled with unseasoned beef and pre-shredded cheese). So when he comes across actual Latino human beings, you have to assume Trump thinks they're the help, right?
While your neighbor stands there awkwardly holding the trash Trump just handed him, he'd have to listen to the diablo naranja explain his fantasy to build a giant border wall and make Mexico pay for it. If he's lucky, Trump won't call him a rapist until he's out of earshot.
He'd ogle your wife's ass or worse.
Donald Trump wouldn't follow your house rules, by which I mean the most basic tenets of common decency. Trump has an extremely well-documented history of sexism and outright misogyny, with genuine cruelty to employees, pageant contestants and public figures he sees as his enemies. He assigns women value based on appearance, and he isn't shy about making those remarks out loud. So be prepared for some awkward moments as he compliments your ass. Or your wife's ass. Or your daughter's ass. Or his daughter's ass.
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MFM008
(19,818 posts)eat off the floor next to the cats.
DesertFlower
(11,649 posts)sarae
(3,284 posts)He's a waste of space.
Iamaartist
(3,300 posts)ladym55
(2,577 posts)Gee, the most important thing about the president is how well he or she would do putting Heinz ketchup on a hot dog and putting up with the neighbor's bad jokes. Okey-dokey. Seems to me something like that was an issue in 2000, too, and look how THAT ended up.