'Presidential' Donald Trump Places Pox On Hillary, George Will, Half Of His Own Party

On February 21, Donald Trump was asked by Fox News' Chris Wallace if he needed to be "more presidential."

"Well, probably I do," Trump replied.

"So when are you going start?" Wallace asked.

"Well, pretty soon,” Trump said. “But, you know, don’t forget, we started off with 17 people. I’ve been hit from, you know, 97 different angles. Now, we’re down to I guess five. And we’ll see what happens. But I think, yes, I think I’ll be very presidential at the appropriate time."

It is Wednesday, May 4. Donald Trump is the lone GOP survivor with no Republican left to tussle with to become president of the United States.

How's that "presidential" thing going?

Let's check in on what "Presidential" Donald Trump had to say during his first full day as the nominee:

• He doesn't want the support of Republicans who hate him. "Let them wait eight years. Or let them wait 16 years or whatever." (Presidential terms are four years, with a two-term maximum, as we learned in second-grade social studies.)
• He doesn't care for conservative Washington Post columnist George Will. "George is a major loser."
• He reiterated his ban on all foreign Muslims entering the United States. "If you look at what’s happening all over Europe with the migration, it’s terrible what they’ve done to some of these countries"
• Hillary Clinton should not be able to run for president because of her private email server. “She should suffer like other people have suffered who have done far less than she has.”

Trump has said about 30 things that in any other election year would have instantly tanked a candidacy and followed someone around for the rest of their personal and political life.

It began shortly after he stepped off that escalator in his Manhattan villa and stood behind a podium. He said of Mexican immigrants, "They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.”

Just a few days later, he said that John McCain "was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.”

A presidential candidate insulted a war hero and continued to rise in popularity. Trump apparently decided that the only way to make people forget about that repulsive thing you just said is to say or do something even more repulsive.

Trump mocked a disabled New York Times reporter, refused to disavow an endorsement of a prominent KKK leader ("I don't know anything about what you're even talking about with white supremacy or white supremacists") and said Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly had "blood coming out of her wherever."

His policy proposals have included banning foreign Muslims from entering the country, prosecuting women who have abortions and systematically deporting every undocumented immigrant living in the country.

We really could go on and on. Trump certainly still is.

More presidential?

Maybe in 16 more years.

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