Real estate mogul and GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump may have had a tough week—having been dropped by a number of major sponsors—but Trump found an unlikely cheerleader in Comedy Central host Larry Wilmore.
“You know, Republican voters, this one time—I’m not going to chastise you, I’m not going to ridicule you,” Wilmore said Thursday. “You keep doing what you’re doing so I can keep doing what I’m doing.”
Wilmore praised Trump’s reverse smear campaign in light of the recent rejection as a “tit-for-tat legal strategy-slash-presidential campaign rollout strategy-slash logic jujitsu.”
Trump has threatened to sue some of the companies that have cut ties with him in light of his recent derogatory remarks about Mexican immigrants.
“I am really looking forward to the Trump presidency,” Wilmore said, adapting a Trump impression. “To combat global warming, I’ll be suing icebergs and polar bears. I’m also suing that hurricane that’s approaching Florida.”
In the last two weeks, Univision, NBC Universal, Macy’s and a Chicago-era brewery ended their business relationships with Trump after he said, among other things, that Mexican immigrants are “rapists” “bringing drugs” and “crime” across the border.
In statements to the press, Trump is insisting that he is the one who initiated the termination of business relations with Macy’s and NBC, prompting Wilmore to ask if he’s “trying to gaslight us.”
“Do you know how reporting works?” Wilmore asked. “We all know you were dumped.”
Because it might convince Jon Stewart not to retire?
The good news is they will. Trump’s subtle digs at unwhite folks resonates with the base.
EDIT: BTW Trump is not a candidate. So far he is only pretending to be one. Sorry folks, I can’t seem to bend logic enough this morning to explain why R voters would support someone who is only engaging in celebrity whoring.
YEP ! And they don’t seem to care what people think,seeing his ascension in the polls.
Trump will soon sue the other Republican candidates for standing in his way. You read it here first.
We’ll know the RWNs are serious about this guy being a cancer on their party when Rinse steps up to smack him down. Right now, they’re all nibbling around the edges because some part of them is looking at Trump like a spokesman for what they can’t say.