13 Sep 2016 1:00 pm
Trump's basket of deplorables seems even bigger than Hillary's. LOLThe Time Donald Trump Dismissed Half of America as Losers And Targeted His Own "Deplorables."
More than once, the reality television celebrity has dismissed tens of millions of Americans—up to half of all Americans—as shiftless people with no desire to work.
During a June 2015 interview on Fox News with Sean Hannity, Trump declared: Trump had expressed this view before.
During a January 2015, interview with Kasie Hunt of MSNBC, he proclaimed, "We have a tremendous amount of people in this country that don't want to work.
They have no inclination to work."
When Romney was caught saying that 47 percent of Americans do not accept the responsibility to take care of themselves, Trump declared that Romney should not apologize because he was essentially correct.
"You do have a large percentage of people not paying taxes," Trump said at the time.
"You do have a large percentage of people that feel they're entitled."
Entitled to handouts and a free ride, that is.
Trump does appear to believe that the United States is full of losers.
During a campaign stop in Wisconsin in March, he groused: Americans with no spirit, no desire to work, lazing about and feeling entitled—Trump has long been deploring scores of millions of Americans.
But for him and his backers, this is not a disqualification.
Dismissing these Americans is no slip; it's a key feature of his campaign.