How to trip up Trump
It's too late to suggest this, but if any of the participants in the second Republican debate tomorrow (say, Jeb Bush) wanted to trip up Donald Trump, here's one way to do it:
Jeb: Mr Trump – may I call you Don?
Trump: Why not? All my wives do. Ivanka, Marla, Melanoma – oops, I mean, Melania – all of them beautiful women. I cherish women.
Jeb: Yes, we know. Don, I hear you are rich.
Trump: Yes, I am rich. I am very, very rich.
Jeb: Then can you lend me a ten-spot till the weekend? I’m a little short.
Trump: Of course I can. I am also very, very generous. Take 20. (Pulls out his wallet and hands a $20 bill to Jeb.)
Jeb (pockets it): Thank you for contributing to my campaign.
There’s an alternate ending to this scenario:
Trump: No, I cannot. I didn’t get rich by handing out ten-spots to low-energy losers like you.
Jeb (to audience): See, folks? He’s a cheapskate, a skinflint, a Scrooge, a Cheap Charlie. Do you want a Cheap Charlie for president?
Either way, Trump loses.
Here’s another:
Moderator Jake Tapper: Mr Trump, you’ve said the Bible is your favourite book, but you won’t tell us what your favourite verse is. This makes some of us wonder if you’ve even read it.
Trump: No, I have read it, Jake, in fact I’ve read it several times. And my favourite verse is Mark 4:25: “To those who have, more will be given; and from those who have nothing, even what they have will be taken away.” I have plenty, so I’m expecting more, like the presidency. These losers on the stage with me have nothing, so they’ll lose even that. They’ll have to drop out and be stuck with massive campaign debts.
Carly Fiorina: My favourite Bible verse is Matthew 19:24: “It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”
Trump: Who asked you? And my God, look at your face! I mean, your persona. Get that persona off this stage!
Audience: BOOOOOOOO!
See? It would be easy to trip up Trump.
Trippingly,
S Tsow
