From a Moment to a Movement: The Sentence that Sparked Controversy
Honest, hardworking President Trump; a target of Smear Campaigns?
It started with Megyn Kelly questioning him based on a 15 seconds sentence repeated by Trump.
The Apprentice TV series had 14 seasons and totalled 15,180 minutes.
Then Pandora’s Box opened with series of accusations of sexual assaults presumably done by Trump. Yet, if you dig deep enough, you find they are lacking in solid evidence.
Is it possible that Trump is facing this political backlash because he is ‘draining the swamp’?
Unfortunately, Trump is subjected to intense scrutiny by the media, which is influenced by powerful entities opposed to his presidency. His statements are frequently misrepresented, with the press habitually twisting and exaggerating whatever he says and overstating his words.
During the 2016 presidential debate, Megyn Kelly asked him a baseless question.
Kelly told Trump, “You once told a contestant on ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ it would be a pretty picture to see her on her knees. Does that sound like the temperament of a man we should elect as president?”
The contestant toward whom it was directed, Ms Roderick, defended Trump, saying she doesn’t remember him commenting in the first place.
“Like him, I didn’t even remember him saying that,” Roderick said during an interview on MSNBC Friday morning. “I’ve always had a positive experience around Donald. He’s always been encouraging. He’s never been disrespectful to me.”
You needed to see this episode and how it was taken from an Apprentice show to understand how, why, and who made this comment. Also, the stunned Trump only repeated it!
The Apprentice US Season 13 Episode 1 – All Stars Celebrity Apprentice
Available on YouTube: 1 hour 18 minutes 17 seconds
Air Date: March 3, 2013
Judges: Donald Trump, Piers Morgan, Ivanka Trump
Contestant Bret Michaels’s comments to the judges how his colleague Brande Roderick dropped to her knees when requesting her team to select her as Project Manager!
He says it at 1:13:13 seconds in the video and the sentence was repeated by Donald Trump with surprise.
Trump: “Excuse me, you DROPPED to your knees?”
Brande: “Yes.”
Trump: “It must be a pretty picture, you dropping to your knees.”
You also hear Piers Morgan laughing in the background
Neither Trump nor Ivanka laughed!
It lasted 15 seconds!
Any person going on their knees begging to do a particular task will shock anyone.
Consider yourself in a group meeting, and one of your colleagues drops on their knees and begs all of you that they want to do a particular task. Wouldn’t you be surprised? Wouldn’t you comment on it?
The Apprentice TV series had 14 seasons and 185 episodes, totaling 253 hours or 15,180 minutes.
Nowhere will you find Trump making sexist, racist, or rude remarks towards female or male contestants. On the contrary, he is always courteous to everyone.
Megyn Kelly’s question shows how desperately the interviewer is trying to brand Trump as sexist by twisting actual conversation into imaginary innuendo.
And most of the public falls for it without checking the facts. After 253 hours or 15,180 minutes, you can only find less than 15 seconds of surprising conversation that could be twisted into darker innuendo.
It does not qualify as sexist.
Did the interviewer have any basis for asking that question to a presidential candidate? Was she instructed to ask that question?
I will repeat here both questions:
“You once told a contestant on ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ that seeing her on her knees would be a pretty picture. Does that sound like the temperament of a man we should elect as president?”
This question was based on:
Trump: “Excuse me, you DROPPED to your knees?”
Brande: “Yes.”
Trump: “It must be a pretty picture, you dropping to your knees.”
You can see the innuendo Megyn Kelly was insinuating based on a 15-second conversation out of 253 hours or 15,180 minutes.
Neither Trump nor Roderick remembered.
The sentence is documented, and the media twists its meaning while questioning Trump. Nobody bothered to check the facts.
The next day, Trump was labeled a sexist in every major newspaper.
Pandora’s box opened with a series of accusations of sexual assaults presumably done by Trump. If you dig deep enough, you find it is lacking evidence!
Did they expect Trump to lose with a series of baseless sex scandals? Or did they expect him to pack up and withdraw, never to return to politics as Blair Hull and Jack Ryan did?
Justifiably, Trump retaliated.
“You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes. Blood coming out of her wherever.”
The media had a field day and started adding insult to injury.
Without knowing him personally or the fact that Trump repeated the sentence, the media tried to influence women against him. That includes former First Lady Barbara Bush, who, in her interview, says, “I don’t know how women can vote for Trump.” She also said to CNN, “I am sick of Trump.” It could also be because her son Jeb Bush was losing and struggling. His mother might have made a last-minute effort to save the campaign. On the other hand, Ms Roderick, who personally met him, defended him by saying he was never disrespectful towards her.
Barbara Bush even blamed her heart attack in 2016 on Trump in her memos.
However, Trump has generously said he understood Bush’s anger toward him.
“Look, she’s the mother of somebody I competed against,” he said. “Most people thought he [Jeb Bush] was going to win, and he was quickly out.”
The Media can throw anything at him, but he cannot retaliate.
If he does, he is lying!
What was surprising is that nobody bothered to check the facts. They took Kelly’s implication at face value. They should have bothered to fact-check. It was an innocent exclamation by Trump.
With Megyn Kelly’s question and the media’s negative report, Pandora’s box opened with a flood of women coming forward, accusing Trump of sexual misconduct, assault, etc. Every day, one or another came forward with their story of a sexual attack by Trump, and the media had a field day.
At the time, every story was coming out just before the voting, like a warning to women not to vote for Trump, advising Trump to pack up and go home as Hillary was leading with a double-digit advance in the survey. To the horror of the Media and Democrats, Trump won, unlike in the 2004 senatorial election in Illinois, a strong rival of Obama, a republican Candidate Jack Ryan, who may have defeated him, was hanged and quartered by the media to the extent he could never enter politics again. The only thing that matters is to win the election by hook or crook.
The bottom line is that the stories about Trump often have no evidence except the use of his name, and you can jump on the bandwagon of fame.
Ordinary people do not need to worry about Trump’s past, with his escapade with women. They want jobs and a secure roof over their heads.
Trump is aware of the problems he faces because of his success, and the Media is not in favor of him.
“One of the problems when you become successful is that jealousy and envy inevitably follow. There are people—I categorize them as life’s losers—who get their sense of accomplishment and achievement from trying to stop others. They wouldn’t be fighting me if they had any natural ability, but they’d be doing something constructive themselves.”
Trump
His comments are justifiable!
