Trump Doesn’t Think Voters Know What ‘Xenophobe’ Or ‘Nativist’ Means

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump walks past cheering attendees before speaking at a rally at Ohio University Eastern Campus in St. Clairsville, Ohio, Tuesday, June 28, 2016. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
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Donald Trump reportedly brushed off rival Hillary Clinton’s charge that he was a “xenophobe” by questioning whether the American people even understood the term.

Trump’s reaction was relayed by his supporter and Boston radio talk show host Howie Carr in a piece he wrote for the Boston Herald on Thursday.

“Hillary’s called me a ‘xenophobe’ a few times,” Trump said, according to Carr. “How many people even know what the word means? Same with ‘nativist.’ ”

Carr made his own headlines Wednesday after he mocked Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-MA) Native American heritage by breaking into a mock war whoop while introducing Trump at a campaign rally in Maine.

Carr also noted that after he did the faux war whoop, a Trump ally showed him a Politico story recapping his gesture. He wrote that Trump told him to not say sorry.

“Whatever you do, don’t apologize,” Trump said, according to Carr. “You never hear me apologize, do you? That’s what killed Jimmy the Greek way back. Remember? He was doing okay ’til he said he was sorry.”

h/t: Politico

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  1. His people don’t have the best words.

  2. Rump loves the poorly educated. And they love him back. But he can’t win with just those votes alone.

  3. Talk to us in words of one [syllable] sound to tell us what you will do, Trump!

    I will take your things! I will make me rich! More rich. Yet more rich!

    I will say things I do not mean so I can take your things. I want more fame. I want more things. I want more and more cents. I lack all sense.

    All that I do comes from this: Will it help me? Will it make me more rich? Will I grow in fame? If so, I do it. If it will not, I do not do it.

  4. Carr and Trump… what a ticket.

  5. “I love the Mexican people.” “I love the Muslims. I think they’re great people.” “I love the poorly educated!” “I saw love in that room. I see love everywhere I go.”

    Love means never having to say you’re sorry.

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