Presidential candidate Donald Trump has been and will probably continue to make waves for his campaign. His bluntness has gathered a large portion of the voters but has also raised a few eyebrows.
His main platform is his immigration policy, which has always been a touchy subject in political debates. He wants to build a giant wall across the southern border to combat illegal immigration, stating that “a nation without borders is not a nation.” He believes that “any immigration plan must improve jobs, wages and security for all Americans,” according to The New York Times. What’s the problem with that?
“When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending the best,” Trump said during his presidential announcement. “They’re not sending you, they’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists and some, I assume, are good people, but I speak to border guards, and they’re telling us what we’re getting.”
Trump’s generalization of the largest U.S. minority group has created major backlash. Since then, a number of businesses have cut ties with him, including Univision, NBC and Macy’s. Unfortunately, there was more to come.
According to CNN, Fow News political commentator Megyn Kelly pressed Trump about his past “misogynistic, sexist comments” at the first GOP debate of the election season. Trump responded, saying her questions were “ridiculous” and “off-base.”
“You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes,” Trump told CNN’s Don Lemon later that night. “Blood coming out of her… wherever.”
More people and businesses dropped their support of Trump because of the comment, saying that this was a reference that because Kelly was mad, she was assumed to be menstruating.
Later on, at the Family Leadership Summit in Ames, Iowa, Trump spoke about Arizona Sen. John McCain and his military past, saying, “He’s not a war hero. He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.”
Trump has specific ideas and concepts for if he wins the presidential election, but his recent comments prove that his bluntness hasn’t turned off as many voters as one would think. Generalizing a minority group based on stereotypes, assuming that a woman can only be angry if she’s on her cycle and saying all POW soldiers aren’t heroes at all must make one wonder if Trump is really ready to lead a nation with such a diverse population.
