Donald Trump Would Never Call Someone a Pussy, He Says, Just After Calling Ted Cruz a Pussy
Politics
Donald Trump, a cartoon representation of Irritable Bowel Syndrome in a pharmaceutical ad, finally went ahead and called Ted Cruz a pussy from the stage last night, after a supporter in the crowd did it first. “It’s like a retweet,” he explained to the celebratory helium balloon hosts of “Fox & Friends” on Tuesday morning. “I would never say a word like that.”
An enthusiastic lady in New Hampshire yelled that Cruz was a pussy for not enthusiastically promoting America’s favorite pastime, waterboarding. And so Trump made a show of winkingly chiding her language even as he repeated it:
You said a terrible thing. You know what she said? Shout it out, because I don’t want to say — okay, you’re not allowed to say, and I never expect to hear that from you again. She said he’s a pussy. That’s terrible! Terrible.
As we all ponder this, the least surprising thing that Donald Trump has ever done, he appeared on Fox & Friends to insist that he doesn’t go around using language like that, as Steve Doocy and Tucker Carlson chortled, because vaginas make them nervous: