Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump mocked a protester for being “seriously overweight,” while the man was getting booted from Trump’s Worcester, Mass. rally Wednesday.
“You know, it’s amazing, I mention food stamps, and that guy who’s seriously overweight went crazy – amazing. Amazing,” Trump said to the cheering crowd. “That’s an amazing sight.”
Trump had said the U.S. has 43 million people receiving food stamps, a number which he claimed would grow to 50 million, before the protester interrupted, ABC News reported. The man was escorted out of the event, which was interrupted two other times.
In May, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which runs the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, put the number of recipients at 45.7 million.
Watch video of the incident, via ABC News:
First off the guy did not look overweight. Second Trump is a despicable man bringing out crowds of despicable Americans. Third this is what the Republicans have wrought after years of mean spiritedness to the rubes. Thank Atwater and Rove and Rush and Savage, the real leaders of the party for the last few decades.
How many sectors does it take for Trump to diss before they finally get a freakin’ clue???
I realize this guy has always been a jerk and a loudmouth, but what turned him into this despicable monster? I realize he wants to be President but the things he says are nothing short of insane and even he has to know he can’t win a general election with this kind of extremism.
Trump is no slim trim athlete by any means.Pot meet kettle
Trump’s comment should have pissed off half his audience, but apparently they don’t spend much time looking in mirrors.