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Perspective: Little Donnie and his little games

 
Published Jan. 30, 2016

Little Donnie Trump loves to play games, but he hates to lose. Nothing worse than a loser, according to Donnie. Now, Donnie is playing the most important game of his life. He will do anything to win.

Change his positions. Little Donnie will do that to win. He was once prochoice and is now against abortion. He once wanted to ban assault rifles, but now he opposes any ban. He once supported a single-payer health care system with insurance for everyone. Now he calls Obamacare a "disaster." He once called one of his opponents a "great secretary of state" and gave her money. Now he calls her a lightweight and a failure.

To win the game, Little Donnie doesn't hesitate to exaggerate, stretch the truth and lie. He once saw thousands of Muslins in New Jersey cheering the fall of the World Trade Center towers. No one else saw it, but Little Donnie did.

Little Donnie lies so much that the Tampa Bay Times' fact-checking website PolitiFact.com called his collection of them the Lie of the Year. Of Donnie's 77 statements they looked at, 76 percent were rated False, Mostly False or Pants on Fire. At least Little Donnie is consistent.

Little Donnie doesn't hesitate to make fun of and demean his opponents. He calls them weak, stupid, low-energy and incompetent. Only Little Donnie is strong enough to win the game.

Mexicans are rapists, John McCain is not a war hero because his plane was shot down, Carly Fiorina has an ugly face and a journalist who asked Little Donnie a tough but fair question is accused of being mean because she was menstruating. Little Donnie will viciously attack anyone who stops him from winning the game.

Little Donnie attacked women so often that he was asked about his demeaning treatment. "Not me," said Donnie. "I love women."

Part of Little Donnie's plan to win the game is to offer simplistic solutions that appealed to everyone. Build, Bomb and Ban became the bases of Little Donnie's strategy.

Build a wall on the Mexican border and that will solve a big part of illegal immigration. Not only that, but Donnie will get Mexico to pay for the wall.

Bomb the heck out of ISIS and that will end the Muslim terrorism threat. So simple. I wonder why no one but Little Donnie realized how easy it was to solve such an important problem.

Ban any Muslim from entering America. Why didn't any of the other players realize it was so easy to solve this problem?

As part of winning the game, Little Donnie had to confront the other players and answer questions. But, once again, Little Donnie had a problem with one of the women. This woman, Megyn Kelly, was mean to Donnie. She had previously asked Donnie a tough but fair question that Donnie did not like. Little Donnie said Megyn was unfair and mean to him.

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Little Donnie refused to have Megyn question him again. If she did, he would not play the game, but instead play all by himself. Little Donnie said that he refuses "to call Megyn Kelly a bimbo because that would be politically incorrect." But, Little Donnie just called her a "bimbo" and then said he would never call her a bimbo. Little Donnie is clever.

Strangely enough, five years ago Little Donnie praised Megyn Kelly's moderating skills and said he could "never beat you" as a moderator. "That would be no contest. You've done a great job, by the way. And I mean that." Now that Megyn challenged Little Donnie, she's become an incompetent, lightweight bimbo. That's Little Donnie.

Little Donnie's adviser said that he "doesn't play games." But, playing games is all that Little Donnie seems to do.

Little Donnie says that if Americans pick someone else to lead the team other than him, that America will be a loser.

Once again, Little Donnie is lying.

Darryl Paulson is a professor emeritus of government at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg. He wrote this exclusively for the Tampa Bay Times.