He may have been addressing Larry King (I can't really remember) but the point is that the person he was talking to had some bad breath going on.
Trump, incredulous, bluntly said words to the effect: "Your breath smells terribly bad. It's quite offensive. Has no one told you this?"
The 2016 election, and Washington DC in general, could sure use a large dose of that type of apolitical candor!
With someone like Trump (or Perot, for instance) I could forgive a lot of policy disagreements, just to have somebody in the White House who will fearlessly call a spade a spade.
Donald Trump is somewhat reminiscent of H. Ross Perot back in 1992. Perot probably would have won the general election had he not dropped out and then suddenly jumped back in with 30 days to go before the election. Even so, he garnered more than 20% of the popular vote, if I remember correctly, which resulted in Bill Clinton being elected by a distinct minority of the People.
Trump is for real. He's going to have to become more deeply knowledgeable and nuanced about many issues, and he's going to have to be a little more tactful (while preserving his candor), but Trump's in-your-face honesty and frankness is going to carry him quite far, IMHO. Trump should not be underestimated or dismissed.
I, for one, hope Donald Trump starts to take this race very seriously (if he hasn't already) and I further hope that he surrounds himself with some trustworthy friends and consultants to help him with his style, presentation, and the like.
Trump doesn't need to radically change, but he probably needs to be a bit more careful in what he says, if he really intends to engage in a prolonged and exhausting Presidential campaign. Steady wins the race.
Above all else, Trump needs to hit his detractors hard, especially his potential Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton.
The lamestream media and the Establishment elites are going to go full bore in trying to damage and discredit Trump. I hope they aren't successful, and my gut is telling me that Trump is already beyond their ability to control or destroy.
And that is a very refreshing feeling.
We're in for a fierce and very entertaining fight, and at this point there's no question in my mind that Trump will be a formidable candidate.
Did I hear right that Cruz met with Trump recently? I would love to have been a fly on the wall in that meeting!
Win or lose, Donald Trump is raising the level of discussion about issues which really matter to a lot of Americans. He's obviously not couching his positions within the traditional PC framework which dominates both sides of the fake spectrum, and therefore he's already got most politicians quaking in their boots and pissing down their legs.
I'm glad to have Donald Trump in the race, and I hope he sticks around long enough to force a open, honest, and candid debate about many issues which would otherwise be handled with the typical empty, blasé inside-the-beltway PC rhetoric.
This 2016 Presidential race is going to be something to behold...
Perot was too short, and had a high pitched annoying voice. His chances of winning were poor at best. On top of that he acted paranoid about someone crashing his daughter’s wedding and dropped out of the race, to rejoin later. He was a strange character. But he was patriotic.
“I, for one, hope Donald Trump... surrounds himself with some trustworthy friends and consultants to help him with his style, presentation, and the like.”
And not just on those superficial aspects. Carry that into the White House. Being able to identify, hire, and listen to competent, smart people can result in huge success. Obviously, Trump knows how to do that. Ditto for Reagan.