I have no idea why el Trumpo sat down with Maureen Dowd, but he did, and of course she pressed him on whether it was smart to act like a douchebag and retweet an insult to Ted Cruz’s wife, Heidi.
Here’s his response:
YOU could hear how hard it was for Donald Trump to say the words.
“Yeah, it was a mistake,” he said, sounding a bit chastened. “If I had to do it again, I wouldn’t have sent it.”
I was telling him he lost my sister’s vote when he retweeted a seriously unflattering photo of the pretty Heidi Cruz next to a glam shot of his wife, Melania.
He repeated his contention that he didn’t view the Heidi shot “necessarily as negative.” But I stopped him, saying it was clearly meant to be nasty.
Trump also got into his schoolyard excuse of “he did it first” and “that wasn’t nice,” insisting that Ted Cruz wrote the words on the digital ad put up by an anti-Trump group aimed at Utah Mormons; it showed Melania in a 2000 British GQ shot posing provocatively and suggested that it was not First Ladylike. Cruz denies any involvement.
Truth be told, Trump said he “didn’t love the photo” of Melania. “I think she’s taken better pictures,” he said, also protesting: “It wasn’t a nude photo, either. It wasn’t nude!”
It’s ridiculous how many mistakes Trump has made in rapid order to alienate women when he was already on thin ice with them — and this in a year when the Republicans will likely have to run against a woman.
What’s weird is that he denies that she did a nude shoot, but even GQ calls it that:
Why is he so sensitive about it? It’s kinda weird – like he’s ashamed of the very thing that made him take her for his wife.
In any case, he didn’t apologize for what he did to Cruz’s wife of course. Because in Trump’s world, to apologize is to be weak. To admit you did something wrong is unmanly. That’s the kind of degenerate that a plurality of voters in the GOP primary want.