WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump used a vulgarity to describe Hillary Clinton's loss to Barack Obama for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination and then poked fun at her taking a bathroom break during a debate.
Trump's off-color comments about the Democratic front-runner at a campaign appearance on Monday night came a day after he called Clinton a liar for saying his proposal to ban entry of all foreign Muslims to the United States has aided Islamic State's propaganda efforts.
"She was going to beat Obama," Trump said of Clinton in Grand Rapids, Michigan. "... She was going to beat - she was favored to win - and she got schlonged. She lost. She lost."
"Schlong" is a Yiddish slang term for a man's genitals.
Trump, who is leading the Republican field for the 2016 presidential nomination, also made a reference to Clinton returning to the stage late after a bathroom break during a Democratic debate on Saturday night.
"I thought she gave up," Trump said. "Where did she go? Where did Hillary go? They had to start the debate without her. Phase II. I know where she went. It's disgusting. I don't want to talk about it," Trump said.
Trump's appearance was interrupted by hecklers who were ejected from the event. The real estate tycoon suggested the protesters might be "drugged out" and chided another group for being "so weak" they would not resist security guards' directions to leave.
Trump's blunt style and comments about Hispanics, women, Muslims and his rivals for the nomination have set much of the tone for the Republican race. His comments about Clinton were not the first time he has veered into vulgarity during the campaign. After a prime-time televised debate in August, he posted Twitter messages criticizing Fox News moderator Megyn Kelly and then made comments in a television interview that were widely interpreted as referring to her menstrual cycle. He denied that was his intention.
The GOP frontrunner also attacked Clinton for taking a bathroom break during the most recent Democratic debate.
"I know where she went, it's disgusting, I don't want to talk about it. No, it's too disgusting. Don't say it, it's disgusting, let's not talk, we want to be very, very straight up. But I thought that, wasn't that a weird deal,” Trump said.
And he said that while "I hate some of these people," referring to reporters, "I would never kill them," he said.
Clinton's campaign did not immediately comment and Trump's campaign did not immediately clarify his remarks.
You know, I was working from home yesterday and the news stations were all covering the ISIS recruitment comments from HRC in detail. They were all saying that this gave Trump and edge. And now he comes out with this. Trump, someone said something untrue about you. The best response here is not to double down and make offensive comments back. THIS IS NOT THE TYPE OF PERSON WE WANT RUNNING OUR COUNTRY. Holy shit. What will he do if he's President and Putin or Kim Jong-Un make a derogatory comment? They will not diplomatically laugh off his insane rants like American politicians do.
And people say women are too emotional to be President...
Even my super conservative dad thinks the guy is despicable. Then again, while we disagree politically I think my dad is a stand up guy who favors critical thought to base instincts. He summed up Trump perfectly:
His promise to not kill reporters is....something.
... and he doesn't believe that his buddy Putin might have done that. He's all "show me the receipts" when people ask what he thought about Putin disappearing journalists.
Thank you for posting this! Our local news said that he used a slang term for male anatomy but then bleeped of scholonged. Why would they bleep that out?! MH and I spent 10 minutes trying to guess the word.
Thank you for posting this! Our local news said that he used a slang term for male anatomy but then bleeped of scholonged. Why would they bleep that out?! MH and I spent 10 minutes trying to guess the word.
Thank you for posting this! Our local news said that he used a slang term for male anatomy but then bleeped of scholonged. Why would they bleep that out?! MH and I spent 10 minutes trying to guess the word.
"and she got _________."
johnsoned
twig and berriesed
tackled
rogered
schlonged!
I wouldn't expect any of these to be bleeped. Cock and dick, maybe, but schlong?