Trump Says He’ll Stop Calling Megyn Kelly A ‘Bimbo’ Now

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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump decided early Wednesday morning he would use a new insult for Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly. He said in a tongue-in-cheek tweet that he’d now use “lightweight reporter” instead of “bimbo” because it’s more “politically correct.”

Trump calling Kelly a “bimbo” traces back to an August retweet of a Trump supporter who used the insult. Kelly and Trump had immediately clashed at the first Republican presidential debate because of her question about the misogynistic language Trump uses to talk about women. Trump called her line of questioning “unfair.”

The real estate mogul’s fixation on the Fox News host flared up again Tuesday night when he said he would boycott Thursday’s Republican presidential debate in Iowa. Kelly is scheduled to moderate the debate.

“Unlike the very stupid, highly incompetent people running our country into the ground, Mr. Trump knows when to walk away,” Trump said in a statement. “Roger Ailes and Fox News think they can toy with him, but Mr. Trump doesn’t play games.”

Thursday’s debate is considered to be candidates’ last chance to make their case to undecided voters in Iowa before Monday’s caucuses.

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  1. ever tastefully coiffed bouffant bozo decides to take the higher road…

    suggests C.O. Jones as special moderator declaring at least someone on the stage will have a pair…

  2. Avatar for imkmu3 imkmu3 says:

    Is it okay if I still call her a bimbo?

  3. Donald Trump triumphs as hero of ‘sensual and tawdry’ erotic novel
    Trump Temptation: The Billionaire and the Bellboy, by comedian Elijah Daniel, zooms to No 1 in Amazon’s gay and humorous erotica charts

    "…“I was stacking someone’s tacky luggage when the door behind me swept open. My loins trembled as the scent of toupee adhesive and spray tan swept through my nasal cavity. I wanted nothing more than to turn around and see the golden god behind these scents, but I couldn’t move. I was frozen.”

    Other gems include a vision of how “his ass flapped behind him like a mouth-watering stack of pancakes. And my hunger for pancakes had never been stronger.” And how “the door creaked open and there he was, handsome as ever, like a giant melting fat carrot with fake hair”, and: “He stood there in front of me, like a tall stallion. With his oily orange skin glistening in the sunlight as if he were a soggy cheeto, his hair unkempt and messy, like a gorgeous rat’s nest.”
    http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jan/26/donald-trump-erotic-novel-temptation-billionaire-bellboy-elijah-daniel-amazon

    ~snicker~

  4. Lame Don, really lame.

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