So last night the eminently classy Donald J Trump — the “J” stands for “Jesus H Christ what the hell is wrong with you, dude?” — reposted this lovely meme below contrasting his SUPER HOTTTT wife Melania with Heidi Cruz, wife of Ted, a woman who once committed the terrible crime of making a weird face in public.
"@Don_Vito_08: "A picture is worth a thousand words" @realDonaldTrump #LyingTed #NeverCruz @MELANIATRUMP pic.twitter.com/5bvVEwMVF8"
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 24, 2016
You might think that Trump — an orange-faced self-tanner with, you know, that hair — would stay away from looks-based insults, but then again Trump actually thinks he looks good — nay, great! And also he’s a giant baby.
The Tweet got mixed reviews, by which I mean that most normal human beings thought Trump was being a giant ass. That is, even more so than he usually is.
But the Donald had his defenders. Here are a few of the more, well, I would say “colorful ones,” but they tend to be a bit monochrome, if you know what I mean, and what I mean is that a lot of them are white supremacists.
MAKEUP ARTIST: So, Heidi, how do you want to look today?
HEIDI CRUZ: Oh, you know, the usual.
MAKEUP ARTIST: That George Soros globalist look?
HEIDI CRUZ: You got it. And make it just a teensy bit ragged.
MAKEUP ARTIST: I always do!
HEIDI CRUZ: You’re the best!
Transphobia turns out to be a major theme in these Tweets, for some reason.
#PureClass indeed.
Some, apparently referring to reports that Heidi Cruz has suffered from depression, decided to denounce her as “crazy” as well as ugly:
A gun to what, Randy? A gun to what!? Finish the sentence, Randy!
And now on to boogers:
By the way, people are still using the #TedCruzAteABooger hashtag. Not very many people, admittedly, but more than zero.
One Donald Trump parody account — run by someone who also seems to be a Trump supporter — jumped aboard the Let’s Call Heidi Cruz Crazy Train.
This fellow was one of Trump’s most, er, outspoken defenders:
Meanwhile, the artist formerly known as DJ Pop A Titty Out had this to say:
You knew we weren’t going to make it through this without that word popping up at least once, right?
Meanwhile, on the other side of this peculiar debate, not all of the anti-Trumpites were above taking potshots at Melania Trump’s looks.
This is definitely the most screwed-up presidential campaign I’ve ever seen.
“George Soros globalist look”? Dude, just say “filthy Jew”, it’s not like people don’t already know you’re racist.
I stumbled across one of the grosser PUAs endorsing Trump on the grounds that money + hot wife= success therefore he is the best qualified to be president. Not even kidding.
I feel like I want to assign detention to everyone featured in this post, and send them all home with a note for their parents, because sweet heavens, they sound like a bunch of bullies in junior high school.
I don’t know anything about either of these women, but I am livid that Trump dragged them into this. I’m sure the darker corners of the internet would be saying gross things about them either way, but still. It is deplorable that he would drag Heidi Cruz into this–SHE’s not the one running for president. And by bringing Melania into the mix, he threw her into the line of fire, too, because he essentially invited the internet to compare the two. Either he had zero grasp of how this sort of thing would affect her–which, come on, it’s 2016, if he is still that ignorant about the viciousness of Twitter trolls, it doesn’t speak well of him as a communicator–or he just cares so little about her that he doesn’t mind throwing her to the wolves if it allows him an opportunity to gloat. Seeing as he has a tendency to intentionally rile up Twitter trolls on his behalf, I can’t help but think that the latter is more likely the case.
Not to mention the whole problem that judging women by their looks is just about as misogynistic and objectifying as it comes.
This is the kind of guy who thinks women’s eyelids are just naturally three shades of grey/blue/green, really beautiful women are born without pores and that the worthy of us miraculously get soccerball-shaped breasts over night.
Why is she being called a traitor?
You know shit’s hit the fan when the republicans are like “If this jackass gets the nomination, just vote democrat. Better to be pro-gay, pro-choice, and pro-Obamacare than to vote for this hate-monger”.
If you want to be extra depressed, go back and read historical speeches by 19th and early 20th century American politicians and compare that to the political discourse of “modern” times. Especially shocking is the dramatic drop in the level of vocabulary used.
We may have smart phones and self-driving cars but we certainly seem to have lost something along the way…
Even if it mattered which of them is more attractive (spoiler alert: It doesn’t), if you account for the fact that one picture’s a Photoshopped glamour shot and the other’s a candid screencap of a news report or something, they could be sisters.
Which shows just how arbitrary their standards are.
The only thing gross about Heidi Cruz is her marriage to Ted. And naturally that photo of Ted with that…thing on his face has resurfaced to haunt my god damn nightmares again.
Oh my god Trump is so gross. Like, Jerry-Springer level white trash gross. By the next campaign cycle the Republican debate is gonna have a folding chair throwing match.
(As a side note, the ‘shop work on that picture sucks. Not only does her left eye clip over her fringe/bangs, but her iris then clips over her eyelid. It’s totally irrelevant, but it’s bugging the hell out of me.)
Yeah. Having imagegoogled both women, it’s clear that they both have flattering and less flattering pictures out there. I won’t post any images here, because examining celeb women’s appearances in detail is kinda creepy, but I’ll just say I’m pretty sure these guys wouldn’t be very impressed with non-photoshopped Melania Trump.
But it’s extremely predictable that these morons would be seduced by a photo like that. They always complain about being tricked by women’s make up and clever photo trickery, but they’re apparently willing to be “tricked” over and over. The MRA motto should be: Never Learn A Fucking Thing
Yes, you don’t have to say anything
That picture does says a thousand words, about what you think makes a woman valuable that is.
Just imagine what will happen when this nightmarishly long primary season comes to an end. If Clinton is the nominee, they’ll turn their attention to her and it’s going to be quite a sight.
Off topic, but Jian Ghomeshi was found not guilty. Apparently because the (male) judge felt the victims were insincere.
Just in case anyone needed reminding that the US is not the only country that’s fucked.
@Kootiepatra – I’m almost certain that Trump views her as a trophy, not a person, so it would make sense that he doesn’t consider her feelings.
However, if I am remembering correctly, a 3rd party Cruz supporter group used Melania’s likeness in a Trump-bashing ad, so Trump didn’t actually drag either of them into it, at least I imagine that’s how he sees it. And to him a woman’s only value is her fuckability quotient, so of course he’d gloat. How many times has he told whoever will listen that his wife was/is a model?
On the plus side, I have learned the best way to end any message I write for the entire rest of my life. Whoa Whoa Whoa!!!
@WeirwoodTreeHugger: I saw that. Between that, the NC Bathroom/Worker supression bill, this has not been a good day.
Oh, and Microsoft released a chatobot on twitter, and it immediately learned how to be a racist conspiracy theorist.
I need wine.
Such a mature election process going on there. Comparing wives, really, what century are they living in?
Any moment now someone’s going to offer eight head of cattle for Melania.
@dreemr
Yes, it was a Cruz friendly ad — aimed at primary voters in Utah — that brought Melania into it to start. It was a meme style post on Facebook and Instagram of a nude image she did 15 years ago in a photo shoot for GQ. The text said: “Meet Melania Trump, your next First Lady. Or, you could support Ted Cruz on Tuesday.” It was gross and slut-shaming and totally out of bounds.
Trump brought Heidi Cruz into it in response to that. And then he and Cruz had a juvenile exchange on Twitter about it all.
Hey, GenJones, just want to say that some don’t care for the term ‘white trash’. My husband is one of those. He gets very offended.
I get less offended, but then I’ve lived as a poorer person in the South my whole life, I’m pretty used to it.
@Wondering thanks for the corroboration. I didn’t see the ad myself but it sounded like a cheap shot.
And for sure, Trump is no better and quite possibly worse, I still don’t know for sure yet. Just that, in this one case, he wasn’t just throwing shit out there unprovoked, sorta/kinda.
With Trump, I keep thinking, “You mean the guy I learned to laugh at from SPY EFFING MAGAZING way back in college? THAT guy? REALLY?”
And with Cruz, I keep thinking, “Did everyone forget that this is the dude who SHUT DOWN THE ENTIRE GOVERNMENT FOR A MONTH????”
But whatevs. This is a circus but it’s always been a circus.
The microsoft chatbot thing is awesome. Who’d have thought that using twitter to train a machine learning system would result in a ghastly sexist racist fascist trump-supporting mess?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/03/24/microsofts-teen-girl-ai-turns-into-a-hitler-loving-sex-robot-wit/
Kale, she’s being called a traitor because right-wing conspiracy theorists and alt-right people have decided she’s a “globalist,” apparently because she was involved in writing a report about greater cooperation between Canada, the US and Mexico. Which to these doofuses means she wants to destroy the borders and let the evil Canadians in, sorry, the Mexicans. Also she worked on Wall Street, which means evil Jews!