Sarah Sanders Says Without Irony That Michael Bloomberg's Language Is 'Offensive'
Cue Alanis Morissette because Sarah Huckabee Sanders just said something that is truly “Ironic.”
The former White House press secretary appeared on Fox News Tuesday night to suggest Michael Bloomberg will face serious problems as he pursues his Democratic presidential candidacy.
“If he continues to rise, he is going to have serious problems with women, with African-Americans,” she said. “His record, his language is offensive and atrocious.”
Sarah Sanders says Bloomberg will have serious problems with Women and African Americans. She also says his language is offensive and atrocious pic.twitter.com/bbokyBmjpI
— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) February 12, 2020
Sanders is correct that Bloomberg faces an uphill battle with both voting groups: his support of the stop-and-frisk policing policy could be a sticking point with Black voters, and he has admitted making disrespectful comments toward women.
But Sanders made her point without a hint of self-awareness ― and without so much as a nod to the problems her former boss has had among both groups of voters, as well as his long history of using coarse, insulting language.
A Washington Post/Ipsos poll last month showed that 80% of Black Americans consider President Donald Trump to be a racist. And women, polls have shown over and over again, are far less likely to support Trump than men.
Trump also has been accused of sexual assault multiple times, and has used terms like “horseface,” “lowlife,” and “ugly” to attack women, according to The New York Times. Then there’s that demeaning “Access Hollywood” tape in which Trump bragged that he could grab women “by the pussy” because of his celebrityhood.
To be fair, Sanders isn’t the only former Trump employee who insists on gaslighting Fox News viewers.
On Wednesday, former Trump campaign adviser Corey Lewandowski appeared on the network and claimed with a straight face that the president would never insult a female by calling one a “lying dog-face pony soldier,” as former Vice President Joe Biden did while campaigning in New Hampshire recently (he meant it in jest).
“Can you imagine for one second Donald Trump said that? Every media outlet in the country would be saying he hates women… But hey, it’s Uncle Joe, it’s to be expected,” Lewandowski said.
The Mediaite site noted that Lewandowski apparently forgot that Trump called former Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina a “horseface” in 2015 and also used that term for porn actress Stormy Daniels in 2018.
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He Has 9 Billion Dollars
In a tasteless boast, Trump went on to reveal he refused a bank's loan of $4bn. He said: “I don’t need it. I don’t want it. And I’ve been there.”
While millions of Americans continue to suffer the effects of sluggish economic growth, Trump is blissfully unaffected. Well, that's how he makes it sound.
But He's Never Used A Cash Machine
During an appearance on 'Late Night with Conan O'Brien', Trump said that he'd never seen the need to use ATMs, all the while hinting at his extraordinary wealth.
He Gets Super Defensive About Money
But unlike those struggling to make ends meet, Trump is more concerned with the perception of his wealth, which he says is "more than $9 bn".
When an author suggested Trump had a net worth of less than $300m, the property tycoon sued him for libel.
Yet during testimony, Trump admitted his own estimations depend on his "feelings".
It was reported Trump said: "Yes, even my own feelings (guide estimates of my wealth), as to where the world is, where the world is going, and that can change rapidly from day to day."
Trump lost the libel case.
He's Leading A Fact-Free Campaign
In a remarkable exchange with FOX News host Bill O'Reilly, the famously impertinent presenter took exception to flawed statistics banded about by Trump.
O’Reilly: This bothered me, I gotta tell ya. You tweeted out that whites killed by blacks — these are statistics you picked out from somewhere — at a rate of 81 percent. And that’s totally wrong. Whites killed by blacks is 15 percent, yet you tweeted it was 81 percent. Now …
Trump: Bill, I didn’t tweet, I retweeted somebody that was supposedly an expert, and it was also a radio show.
O’Reilly: Yeah, but you don’t wanna be. … Why do you want to be in that zone?
Trump: Hey, Bill, Bill, am I gonna check every statistic? I get millions and millions of people, @RealDonaldTrump, by the way.
O’Reilly: You gotta, you’re a presidential contender, you gotta check ’em.
He Takes His Name Way Too Seriously
J. Taikwok Yung, a self-described "domainer" from Brooklyn, NY, was hauled before judges after Trump noticed he'd bought up a huge amount of his brand online.
Trump sought the maximum damages allowed - $100,000 for each of the four Trump-related domain names bought by Yung.
And he had legal grounds: Trump is a trademark with the United States Patent and Trademark Organisation and is adorned on many a high-stakes casino, and several hotels.
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