Donald Trump has repeatedly shown his true colors on the campaign trail – and blue has definitely not been one of them.
The billionaire mogul claimed Monday – during his first public appearance since a bitter debate with Hillary Clinton the prior evening – that he saw himself as a “blue collar worker.”
“I love blue collar workers,” Trump said at a campaign event in Ambridge, Pa. “And I consider myself in a certain way to be a blue collar worker.”
“I treat them with dignity … there are great people,” the GOP nominee added, forgetting to mention the billions he made – and lost – throughout his career as a real estate magnate.
Trump has never worked in any capacity that could, under any conventional definition, be interpreted as “blue-collar” labor.
On the contrary, the mogul began his own business endeavors with the help of a loan of at least $1 million from his wealthy father.
In addition, Trump reportedly blew through his allowance at least once and had to get his rich daddy to bail him out in the 1970s with $8.5 million in loans.
Trump’s remarks Monday were his first since the ugly debate Sunday night between he and Hillary Clinton, in which he went after the his Democratic opponent’s husband, regarding her family foundation, her private email server, and even the extramarital exploits of her husband – a vicious strategy he reprised in Ambridge.
Bill Clinton was “the worst abuser of women” to ever sit in the Oval Office, he said, adding that Hillary Clinton had “no defense” for the attacks.
“All she could do is lie,” he said.
The ruthless comments were seen as a way of deflecting attention from the emergence of a 2005 tape that showed him bragging how his fame allowed him to grab women “by the p—y.”
“You can do anything,” Trump is seen saying during unaired footage from an “Access Hollywood” segment.
Clinton, at her own rally which wrapped up just moments before Trump began his, blasted Trump Monday for having “doubled down on his excuse” for the tape.
At the debate, Trump described the recording as “locker room talk.”
“That is just a really weak excuse for behaving badly and mistreating people,” Clinton said at her Detroit rally.
