The 24 Meanest Things Said About Donald Trump This Election Season

From Cosmopolitan

Donald Trump is poised to win the GOP's presidential nomination, and his unexpected rise in politics had alarmed conservatives and liberals alike. Every day, more politicians, activists, and experts are coming forward to vocally condemn the candidate as bigoted, racist, and misogynistic. While he is quick to call women fat pigs, Mexicans rapists, and virtually everyone else a loser, journalists, politicians, and celebrities have labeled him as a dangerous fascist who will send America backward. The Philadelphia Daily News plainly called him the New Furor and the Huffington Post began adding an editor's note to Trump posts calling him "a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist,misogynist, birther and bully who has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims - 1.6 billion members of an entire religion - from entering the U.S." With so many experts calling it like they see it, it's worth highlighting the most inspired insults used against Trump during the 2016 election season.

Media

1. "Donald Trump, a carnivorous plant watered with irradiated bat urine, has a slight polling problem with about half of the female voting public, who have a 'very unfavorable' view of him." -Anna Merlan in Jezebel, March 2016

2. "He is a childish man running for a job that requires maturity. He is an insecure boasting little boy whose desires were somehow arrested at age 12." -David Brooks in the New York Times, March 2016

3. "On Twitter, I suggested that Trump was pugnacious, pugilistic, preening and puerile, and asked for other P words to describe him." -Nick Kristof in the New York Times, March 2016

4. "By now, there's no level of crass, contemptuous shitbaggery that should be surprising coming from prominent golem Donald Trump, a man who once withheld medication from his sick baby nephew." -Jia Tolentino in Jezebel, February 2016

5. "Donald Trump is the Lex Luthor of our time" -Sam Schube in GQ, February 2016

6. "Dead clown walking" -The cover of the New York Daily News, February 2016

7. "It started out as a joke: Donald Trump running for president! What better way to spoof the thinness of the Republican field than to shove a bombastic reality star with orange hair, a sixth-grade vocabulary and no behavioral filter onto the debate stage with the likes of Ted Cruz, Rick Santorum, Scott Walker and Lindsey Graham?" -Matt Taibbi in Rolling Stone, December 2015

8. "Cranial bee sting victim Donald Trump is a leading presidential candidate, despite the fact that he is clearly a stupid, racist clown," -Hamilton Nolan in Gawker, October 2015

Politicians

9. "Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud. His promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University." -former GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney in a speech at the University of Utah, March 2016

10. "And so to Mr Trump, the Donald, the orange prince of American self-publicity - more public now than usual because he will be running for President if he wins the nomination as Republican candidate, and possibly be close to the Presidency should Bernie Sanders and not Hillary Clinton be selected as the Democrat candidate." -British politician Marcus Fysh in a column in the Western Gazette-Crewkern, January 2016

11. "Let no one be mistaken Donald Trump's candidacy is a cancer on conservatism and it must be clearly diagnosed, excised, and discarded ... He offers a barking carnival act that can be best described as 'Trumpism': a toxic mix of demagoguery, mean-spiritedness and nonsense that will lead the Republican Party to perdition if pursued." -former Republican Texas Gov. Rick Perry's comments at the Opportunity and Freedom PAC Forum, July 2015

12. "You know, the Donald is not really a plans guy. He's not really a facts guy, either." – President Obama, during a speech at the Democratic National Convention, July 2016

13. "Trump says he wants to run the nation like he's running his business? God help us. I am a New Yorker, and I know a con when I see one." – Former Republican New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, during a speech at the Democratic National Convention, July 2016

14. "Donald, Donald, you're so vain, you probably think this speech is about you." – Former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, during a speech at the Democratic National Convention, July 2016

Celebrities

15. "The GOP establishment is in a pickle because the only guy within striking distance of Casino Mussolini is someone they hate just as much." -Samantha Bee, comparing Trump to Italian dictator Benito Mussolini in a Full Frontal segment mocking Sen. Ted Cruz, March 2016

16. "Trump is kind of like the movie Snakes on a Plane. Sure, the idea is entertaining. But an actual snake on your plane would be terrifying. And that's what's happening now. The plane is American democracy. And the snake is Trump." -Seth Meyers on Late Night With Seth Meyers, March 2016

17. "Donald Trump is America's back mole. It may have seemed harmless a year ago, but now that it's become frighteningly bigger, it's no longer wise to ignore it." -John Oliver on Last Week Tonight, February 2016

18. "Voldemort was nowhere near as bad," -J.K. Rowling in a tweet responding to people comparing Trump Lord Voldemort, December 2015

19. "Dissonant bagpipe powered by farts." -one of many delightful descriptors @midnight hostChris Hardwick brainstormed for media to use against Trump, December 2015

20. "That's a good dig from a man who looks like a microwaved circus peanut. Like a honey-glazed tiger testicle. Like a catheter bag full of candy corn," -Stephen Colbert on The Late Show, mocking Trump's weak rebuttal to Sen. Rand Paul in a debate, September 2015

21. "It has been a disastrous few days for Donald Trump's fake presidential campaign. As you may have heard, on Saturday, Trump appeared at something called the Family Leadership Summit in Iowa, where he had some very unkind words for Arizona Senator John McCain ... Can you imagine being tortured for 5.5 years in a Vietnamese prison camp, the Vietnamese offer to release you, and you say, 'No, not until you release the other Americans who've been here longer than I have,' and then 42 years later, the host of Celebrity Apprentice - a man who, the closest he ever got to battle was a fight with Rosie O'Donnell, a man whose greatest wartime accomplishment was brokering a peace treaty between Gary Busey and Meatloaf - belittles you and calls you a loser?" -Jimmy Kimmel on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, July 2015

22. "Donald Trump's ego is So inflated,he mightAs well be the Hindenburg !In Dictionary next to'Obnoxious asshole'See Photo of 'THE DONALD'" -Cher in one of her numerous tweets against Trump, June 2015

23. "Donald Trump just replaced bed bugs as America's number one pest" -Daily Show co-creator Lizz Winstead reacting to Trump's candidacy announcement, June 2015

24. "Hello everyone. I'm Michael Jordan and I'm here with Hillary. I said that because I know that Donald Trump couldn't tell the difference." – Kareem Abdul Jabbar,

This post was updated August 23, 2016.

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