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Trump card could win

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I’M not often wrong, as my friends and loved ones will confirm. Or rather, I don’t like to admit it.

But six months ago I insisted there could NEVER be a President Trump.

I mean, seriously? It was all highly entertaini­ng but the American people would eventually realise he’s a phoney, misogynist­ic bully, too thick and punchy to be allowed near the nuclear button.

After eight years of Obama’s inspiring, inclusive rhetoric, how on earth could they take The Donald seriously?

A statesman who calls every opponent a “dummy” an “idiot” a “moron” or a “total loser”.

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A world leader who calls women “dogs” a nd “bimbos”, mocks their periods and thinks they belong on their knees in his boardroom. And who jokes about dating his own attractive daughter.

But now, six months from election day, I have a sickening feeling I got it very, very wrong. Because it looks like lone Republican contender Trump could actually beat Democrat Hillary Clinton in the presidenti­al contest and, as he so eloquently insists, “win bigly.”

New polls show women supporters have been driven away by his sexist outbursts and even more men are flocking to Testostero­ne Trump’s rabble-rousing.

The race is so firmly split on gender lines that one pollster claimed: “This election could be good for divorce lawyers.” But how on earth iss this blunt, big-mouthed billionair­e gettingtin­g people on his side? It’s down to Donald speak.

Political commentato­rsrs says his carefully crafted personal languageng­uage is the most powerful tool in Trump’smp’s box.

The 69-year-old Apprentice ntice star is, supposedly, more articulate te in private and adopted his vocabulary of sound bites to hammer his message intoo the heads of poor, working-class male voters. oters. It’s all about short words, punchy sentences.

As the academics say, “Hee has adopted the plainspoke­n white working-orking- class vernacular of resentment ment heard in the blue collar bar” to appear authentic and trustworth­y.

He wants those good ol’ boys to think he’s one of them – in spite of the £3billion lion fortune, private jet and hamster hair.

“We’re gonna build uild a wall!” and “America is goingg to hell!” he tells them. He points to his wife Melania, and says: “It doesn’tesn’t matter what the media write as long ng as you’ve got a young and beautiful piece iece of ass.”

Is this really rhetorical artistry from an intellectu­al giant? Or r is it all Donald’s brain can force out of his cats-bum mouth? The terrifying­fying truth is it doesn’t matter. Becausese Donald Trump really could be elected ected as leader of the free world in November ovember and force me to eat my words.

Like the man said: “I knoww words. I have the best words. But there here is no better word than stupid.” ”

Please, let me be wrong.

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