Massive Backlash Builds Against Trump Among Women Over Miss Universe Insults

Former Miss Universe Alicia Machado Won't Be Defined by Donald Trump's Fat-Shaming Cosmopolitan

Donald Trump was positively ambushed by Hillary Clinton in Monday night's debate, as she waited for the right moment to unload on Trump for his body-shaming of the woman he called Miss Piggy.

Hillary's TV debate response to Lester Holt's question about Trump's assertion that Clinton doesn't look presidential -- meaning that she has no penis -- was fully-loaded:

"This is a man who has called women pigs, slobs, and dogs, and someone who has said pregnancy is an inconvenience to employers," Clinton said.

She then called attention to one woman in particular, who, next to Clinton herself, would emerge as the most famous following the debate. “And one of the worst things he said was about a woman in a beauty contest — he loves beauty contests, supporting them, and hanging around them — and he called this woman 'Miss Piggy.' Then he called her 'Miss Housekeeping,' because she was Latina.”

"Where did you find her, where did you find her?" Trump interrupted, but Clinton pressed on: "And she has a name, Alicia Machado, and she has become a U.S. citizen ... and you can bet she's going to vote this November." The audience, against the debate's house rules, burst into applause.

So confident was the Clinton campaign that one way or another, Hillary would be able at some point in the debate to take Latina Alicia Machado's case to voters that her post-debate response was ready to go.

1. Machado quickly affirmed her support for Clinton on her Twitter feed. 2. The campaign had an ad ready to go. 3. Machado has an online interview in Cosmopolitan today.

Then there is the help that Trump himself gave the 'fat shaming' of the former Miss Universe issue yesterday, as the totally predictable Trump doubled down on his actions from two decades. And this meglomaniac thinks he has the brainpower to handle Vladimir Putin??? The Russians must be doubled over with laughter.

Were the Trump children cringing -- or did at least Ivanka say: "Daddy, shut the hell up!!!!!!" Probably no -- unless the Trump kids are watching their future fortunes flushed down the proverbial toilet because Big Daddy just can't zip up his mouth.

As for launching a crusade against Bill Clinton's past infidelities, can someone make it clear that Bill Clinton is a spouse, whereas thrice-married Donald Trump himself was never able to keep his fly zipped up?

If you doubt that a gutter-level response is waiting for the Trumpster if he unloads on Bill Clinton over past infidelities, think again. Hillary herself won't go there, but the Internet has its own toxic culture, and the Clinton campaign will manage to unload Trump's fair share on his own campaign.

It's called HYPOCRISY with a capital H, and we will unload on Trump for her.You have been warned Mr. Orange Man. ~ Anne

Related: That Seventh-Grade Bully Is Running for President by Nicholas Kristof New York Times

Kesha Supports Former Miss Universe Alicia Machado, slams Donald Trump: 'He Is A Bully' Billboard

Shamed and Angry: Alicia Machado, a Miss Universe Mocked by Trump New York Times

Cover Story: Donald Trump Is Barry Blitt's 'Miss Congeniality' The New Yorker

She  was the worst we ever had, the worst, the absolute worst, she was impossible,” Donald Trump told Fox News the morning after his debate with Hillary Clinton, defending his treatment of Alicia Machado, the former Miss Universe whom he called “Miss Piggy,” when she gained weight after the pageant, and “Miss Housekeeping,” in apparent reference to her heritage. Watching the debate, the artist Barry Blitt recognized a significant moment in the Presidential campaign. Of all Trump’s dangerous beliefs, Blitt said, his misogyny “might just be his Achilles’ heel.”

Trump Zips Up His Own Fly & Goes After Bill Clinton

PSA: It's really, really sexist to blame Hillary Clinton for Bill's infidelity ThinkProgress

Punditsjournalists, and real-time polls agree: The first presidential debate was a bad night for Republican nominee Donald Trump. In full spin mode, Trump campaign operatives are now grasping at straws — and, continuing on a common theme, they’re coming up sexist.

In a particularly egregious example, Trump surrogate Rudy Giuliani said that Hillary Clinton is “too stupid to be president” because she didn’t know about her husband’s infidelity, continuing a grossly sexist line of attack the campaign has employed before.

10 Emotional Abuse Tactics That Trump Blatantly Used in the First Debate EveryDay Feminism

The reason why this year’s election has caused a heightened and exacerbated sense of anxiety among many people is because Trump’s language is not your typical political rhetoric. In fact, the language he employs comes straight out the handbook of toxic masculinity.

That is, he uses toxic tactics of emotional abuse – especially emotional abuse aimed at women – in order to put other people down. The tactics are powerful, emotionally violent, and often disarming against their victims.

Hillary Clinton Headlines September 28, 2016

Donald Trump Proved to Be No Ronald Reagan The Atlantic

Comey on Clinton email probe: 'Don't call us weasels' Politico

Private Prison Stocks Just Tanked As Hillary Calls For End of State Private Prisons Occupy Democrats

Clinton Picks Up Two Unprecedented Endorsements Second Nexus

Trump? How Could We by Thomas Friedman New York Times

Trump fundraising record not all it appears Politico

Trump and the Truth: The 'Lying' Media The New Yorker

AOL founder Steve Case: 'I'm voting for Hillary Politico

Donald Trump's Cruel Streak The Atlantic

People & Pundits Agree Hillary Scored Big Debate Win Against Empty-Headed Bully Trump

At Nearly 84 Million Viewers, Debate May be the Most-Watched Ever New York Times

Preliminary figures from 12 national networks tally up to an average viewership of 83.8 million, making last night's Hillary Clinton-Donald Trump debate as the most watched since televised debates began in 1960. Previously, the 1980 debate between incumbent President Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan held the record at 80 million viewers. Nielsen has issued its estimate at 81.4 million. The tally also doesn't include the many online views of the debate, with YouTube reporting 2.5 million views. PBS viewership isn't included in these totals. 

Related: The first debate featured an unprepared man repeatedly shouting over a highly prepared woman VOX

Even Fox News Knows Clinton Thumped Trump in the First Debate Observer

In a Debate-Long Power Move, Clinton Only Called Trump 'Donald' Slate

57% of viewers say Clinton won the first debate YouGov.com

YouGov's latest research shows that most people who watched last night's debate say that Hillary Clinton won it. 57% of Americans who watched the debate say that she won the debate, while 30% say that Donald Trump won the debate. 13% of viewers aren't sure who, exactly, came out on top. 

83% of Democrats called it for Clinton, and 68% of Republicans said that Trump won. Among independents, however, sentiment clearly favors Hillary. 54% of independents who watched the debate say that Clinton won, compared to 28% who say that Trump won. 

Clinton Is Right About Trump's 'Very Small' $14 Million Loan Politico

Until last night, I bought the story that Trump's father had 'only' lent him $1 million to get started in business. When Hillary said $14 million last night, my ears perked up. She is correct as new details emerged recently about the real size of Trump's father's cash infusion -- what Trump calls a 'very small loan'. 

Millions of People Checked Out Clinton's Debate Fact-Check Site Wired

During last night’s presidential debate,candidate Clinton took fact-checking into her own hands. “I hope the fact-checkers are turning up the volume and really working hard,” she said early on in the debate. “Please, fact-checkers, get to work,” she followed up later. Just in case, the always-prepared Hillary launched her own backup plan, just in case the professional journalists were so overwhelmed with Trump lies that they deluge left them buried.

The Clinton campaign turned HillaryClinton.com into a live fact-check machine, called Literally Trump. During the debate, Clinton told viewers to go to the site “to see in real-time what the facts are,” and according to Clinton spokesperson Tyrone Gayle, it was a superb success. How entrepreneurial of Clinton to come up with this idea in her own superbly calculating mind.

“In debate prep, Hillary made it clear that while she would be calling Trump out for his lies, she wanted a place where viewers could be empowered to look it up themselves, not have to wait for reporters or any other delivery mechanism,” Gayle said. “Hillary suggested making Trump’s past statements available on the website for anyone to read for themselves.”

Nearly two million people visited Clinton’s website within an hour after she mentioned it, says Wired That’s 10 times as many visits as the campaign has ever attracted in an hour. By this evening, the Literally Trump factoids had been shared 18,000 times on social media.

“In debate prep, Hillary made it clear that while she would be calling Trump out for his lies, she wanted a place where viewers could be empowered to look it up themselves, not have to wait for reporters or any other delivery mechanism,” Gayle said. “Hillary suggested making Trump’s past statements available on the website for anyone to read for themselves.”

Donald Trump Racist

Everyone Knows Donald Trump Is Racist -- Except for Donald Trump by Goldie Taylor The Daily Beast

Donald Trump may be one of the last people in America who doesn’t know that he is a bigot. After weeks of alleged “outreach” to black and Muslimcommunities, the GOP nominee Monday night littered the debate stage with racial stereotypes, doubling down on his virulent brand of prejudice as more than 80 million Americans watched.
His answers betrayed the heart of a man far too consumed with himself to see other people as they are. Perhaps more devastating, he cannot seem to see himself. And there is nothing any campaign manager, senior adviser, or media trainer can do to help. Trump is incapable of a pivot because he is unable to recognize his own frailties.
A sneering, angry Trump protested that it was he and he alone who understood the plight of black people, writ large, and insisted he should be given some credit for visiting African American churches (for the first time) in recent weeks. His answer to nearly every dilemma seemed to be: call the police.

Ranting Bully Donald Trump Came Unglued in First Presidential Debate by Jonathan Chait NY Magazine

"Before the first presidential debate, a conventional wisdom had formed that Donald Trump merely needed to appear “presidential,” which the campaign media had defined as “non-sociopathic.” He failed to clear that bar.

Hillary Clinton Headlines September 27, 2016

Consensus: Clinton wins debate -- but Trump is far from finished The Guardian

The Morning After the Debate. Donald Trump Goes on the Attack New York Times

Hillary Clinton Goes the Distance as Donald Trump Punches Himself Out The Daily Beast

How Hillary Clinton found her stride on gender CNN

Trump's Abdication of Personal Responsibility The Atlantic

Does Donald Trump Pay Taxes? Here's What We Know New York Times

Former Ms. Universe Urges Immigrants To Join Her In Becoming Citizens To Vote Against Donald Trump ThinkProgress

Gennifer Flowers, Donald Trump and the Making of the Sex-Scandal Culture New York Times

These are the moments Clinton won over voters inclined to vote for Trump VOX