Trump gets defensive and throws insults on CNN: These are the most controversial phrases
This past Wednesday, May 10, a Republican forum was held in New Hampshire and organized by CNN. The star guest of this forum was former President Donald Trump, who has recently been convicted of sexual abuse of the writer E. Jean Caroll, a fact that he took the opportunity to deny when questioned about it.
Trump is running for presidential candidate for the Republican Party in 2024 and Kaitlan Collins, presenter of 'CNN This Morning' and moderator of the forum, did not hesitate to also ask him several questions about it.. The former president displayed his usual school bully style, with a mix of practical jokes and insults in equal parts.. He distributed to everyone and not even the pointer was saved.
When asked about her conviction for sexual abuse of the writer E. Jean Caroll, for which he must pay 5 million dollars, Trump played the smear and insult card. He called Carrol a “nutty”, repeating on several occasions that he did not know her and that she was a complete “hanky panky”, which in English slang can mean either maniacal, gossip and dishonest, or a person with great extramarital sexual activity.
Insults for the defendant's cat
Trump: “Her cat was named Vagina.”
Forks. Real quote 😂 pic.twitter.com/ID2TT3WftX
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) May 11, 2023
There came a point in the interview, when it seemed that Trump had already thrown all his bile at Caroll, that he went off on a limb and began insulting the writer's husband and pet.. Specifically, she explained that she had a dog or “a cat called a vagina”, an irrelevant fact for the interview, but that made the audience burst out laughing..
There is also “wax” for the husband
To ensure he did not know the writer, Trump seemed very knowledgeable about their marital relationship.. Following the claims about the supposed name of Caroll's cat, the former president stated that the writer called her husband “monkey”, and immediately clarified that “it turned out to be an African-American man”.. Faced with this racist phrase, the audience once again burst into laughter and applause..
Not even the presenter herself was spared
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The CNN presenter, Kaitlan Collins, conducted the entire interview with great integrity and professionalism, but Trump was not expected to also have insults for her.. When it came time to ask the former president about the Capitol Hill case and the classified documents found at his Mar-a-Lago residence, Trump grew defensive, interrupting the anchor with: “Are you ready? Are you ready?” can I talk?`, do you mind?.
She replied that “yes, I would like you to answer the question. That's why I did it”, and he repeated the question again: “can you answer why you clung to the documents?”. Here Trump felt attacked and called the presenter “nasty”: “The answer is very simple, and you are an unpleasant person, I'll tell you”. It is not the first time that Trump resorts to insults to attack a woman when he feels uncomfortable and frustrated.
Former President Donald Trump defended comments he once made on Access Hollywood during a New Hampshire town hall with CNN’s @kaitlancollins
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Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi, Megan Markle or Megyn Kelly have also been victims of their bad words. Of the latter, a Fox News presenter, he went so far as to say that “blood was coming out of her eyes, blood was coming out of her everywhere”. In this regard, he was asked a question about a very controversial statement, which he remembered on tiptoe, which he made in 2005 and came to light in 2016: “if you are a star, women let you touch them”, and emphasized the use of the verb “to leave” with the connotation of “to allow”, which is not the same as “to touch without permission”. To downplay the matter, he clarified that this happens with powerful, rich or famous people, and that it has been happening for “a million years”.
“Spending money like drunken sailors”
When asked about the Republican Party, he stated that it “should be willing to raise the debt ceiling” and explained that “I tell Republicans, congressmen, senators, if they don't get massive cuts, they're going to have to testify for default, and I don't think they're going to default because I think the Democrats will give in completely, they will give in completely because you don't want that to happen, but it's better than what we're doing now because we're spending money like drunken sailors.”.
The Russian-Ukrainian War would end “in 24 hours”
In relation to the war between Russia and Ukraine, Trump was bold and explained that, if he were president, that war would end “in 24 hours.”. When asked if he wanted Ukraine to win, he evaded the answer, stating that “I don't think in terms of winning and losing,” saying he was thinking more in terms of “resolving it so we stop killing all these people.”.
No mercy for immigrant families
Finally, in terms of immigration policies and its “zero tolerance”, the former president explained with cold blood that “when you tell a family that if you come, we are going to separate you, they do not come”. His goal for 2024 is clear: tighten immigration policies and separate migrant families at the U.S.-Mexico border as a strong deterrent.