A contrite-sounding Donald Trump kicked off a rally in North Carolina with expressions of regret and a blunt admission that ‘sometimes you don’t choose the right words.’
The blunt-speaking mogul even admitted having caused ‘personal pain’ – a turnaround for a someone who has said he rarely apologizes because he’s rarely wrong.
‘Sometimes, in the heat of debate and speaking on a multitude of issues, you don’t choose the right words or you say the wrong thing,’ Trump told a crowd of several hundred who applauded and chuckled at the unexpected contrition.
‘I have done that, and believe it or not, I regret it – particularly where it may have caused personal pain,’ Trump said. ‘Too much is at stake for us to be consumed with these issues.’
‘But one thing I can promise you is this: I will always tell you the truth,’ Trump told the crowd.
- ‘Has she apologized for Iraq? For Libya? For Syria?
- Has she apologized for unleashing ISIS across the world?’
But WORDS are so much more hurtful than, say, ISIS beheading you.
You go, Donald!
Here’s a similar take on this from Whoopie over at BlurBrain:
http://blurbrain.com/trump-upstages-obama-begins-act-three/
His last 3 speeches have been notably different that the previous year+. And the almost serene way he is laying pipe on Obama and Hillary is so gratifying for me.
Contrast this with McCain wearing his heart on his sleeve and saying Obama is a good guy and he won’t ever, never use his middle name.
Or Romney who had Obama down for the count after that 1st debate(go back and look at Obama, he was high on something) and let him go. With Benghazi right there to hammer his gross negligence, he fucking choked.
I want him to keep telling blacks how they’ve been had. Keep pointing out the obvious failures of cities run by dems for decades. Run down the list of failed countries because of Hillary & Obama’s foreign policy. Keep saying 33,000 erased emails. Pay for play. $20 million from the Saudis. I use it all the time at Common Dreams and most of the commenters agree! If I can wade into far left territory and get these wacky REgressives to agree, I know some of this from Trump is seeping into some mighty thick noggins.
Upon further reflection:
Hey, let’s talk about Hillary causing “personal pain.” Her promise to shut down coal mines must have put an awful lot of coal miners and their families on edge.
I couldn’t believe she said that. Coal miners are some of the hardest-working people in this country. They do REAL work, unlike Hillary (whose concept of work seems to consist of barking at Huma to bring her more carrots and hummus). I don’t care how she feels about fossil fuels, to tell a bunch of miners she’s going to take away their livelihoods was cruel and insensitive.
The good news: Trump’s got West Virginia in the bag.
never apologize!
trump blew it.
now the msm will be out in full force to make him apologize for everything he says from now on. it will be non-stop.
up until now I haven’t heard trump say anything to apologize for.
talk about going all mushy just when real strength is needed.
once again the citizen loses his voice speaking truth to power.
Darn, I wanted him to cause hurt to all the anti-American Marxist loving scum bags and their fellow perverted and degenerate butt boys!
The audience was with Trump when he said this and Trump repeated -with a wry smile – that he had sometimes chosen the wrong words. It was very endearing and, as far as anyone watching him, made him that much more like them.
I’d like to bring up a bit of history. I find the parallels between Reagan and Trump enlightening. Reagan was also very much the outsider – even with 2 terms as governor – but the establishment got control of him by forcing Establishment Bush as his VP. Bush allowed his surrogates to do all they could to destroy Reagan’s chances despite the dismal condition of the United States under the disasterous economic and foreign policies of the Carter administration.
Coming out of the convention, Reagan had a 13 point lead over Carter which diminished to “too close to call” according to the polls on the day before the election. The polls were not in Reagan’s camp either, although more discreet than today.
Look at how the establishment helped Reagan in the minds of the voters: “…David Keene, a political operative for George Bush, the Republican vice presidential nominee, adds: ‘Reagan has to keep the focus on Carter, or at least to keep it from getting on himself.”(Boca Raton News, August 17, 1980, James McCartney).
Great help from your teammate when you’re ahead 13 points, no?
Trump is smarter and has better judgement than anyone has given him credit for.
Unless I missed it, he said regret. That is not an apology .
Those who claim he was hurtful want an apology, which they didn’t get. By regretting hurtful remarks he is making it clear – to my ears at least – if those messages could have been avoided, or more gently stated wtith a do-over he might.
@Aggie – only the left peddle the lie that Trump is a hateful, bigoted bully. What has he said that requires an apology? That Mexico is not sending us their best and he wants a wall to control who comes in? That he wonders what Mrs. Khan had to say? That the 2nd Amendment folks might exercise their right to vote to preserve their natural rights if Clinton becomes president?
If any apologies are owed it’s the democrats and leftist media who owes Trump and all his supporters numerous apologies for the deliberate, dishonest lies and treating us like dirt.
I’m so glad Manafort is gone. That guy was dumber than a box of rocks. I blame Kushner and Ivanka for the Manafort hire.
@Jon – I’m glad Manafort is gone, too, but he was exactly the right hire at the right time. Remember when he came in – Cruz was going behind the scenes using arcane rules to un-pledge delegates from the state primary winner – Trump – in order to deny Trump the nomination on the first ballot. Manafort ended that.
They then tried to change the rules to again deny Trump a first ballot win. Manafort ended that as well.
The House and Senate Republicans were bucking Trump and saying disparaging things about him. Manafort started a weekly meeting, got them in line and now even Ayotte and Graham are saying they’ll vote for Trump.
Manafort is an inside guy who knows more about the sausage making than anyone else and was so politically connected that he was able to bring many of the Establishment unipartiers to heel. He did a great job but now it’s up to the voters – and he’s not the man to lead that mission.
Trump is a great judge of character. Conway and Bannon are the right choices to take this campaign for the win.
I like it. Also, it’s making everyone swivel their heads looking at Hillary… “Do you have something to say? Maybe you feel sorry about something? Hmmmmmm???”
Hot potato in your court, beeotch.
I watched the entire speech last night and agree with Aggie’s and Pageoturner’s assessment.
Trump has worked for over a year to establish a solid base of support; now he is going after the voters who make choices based on how they ‘feel’ about the candidate rather than ‘think’ about the issues. We all know these people. Many of those voters are younger Sanders supporters and many are your typical MSM-watching (including, especially, NPR-listening) voters who think they are hep to all things political but don’t know any better. They need an alternative to killery, bad!
Pretty much everyone in his audience knew exactly why he used the words he used and I’m doubtful not one of them mistook his meaning. It wasn’t an apology, but the MSM will naturally twist it into one. I don’t think there’s any harm in their doing so and, in fact, may be part of Trump’s calculus.
(Why does this story start out describing Trump’s crowd as “several hundred” when the linked DM story says “packed crowd” at the Charlotte convention center? That venue holds several thousand and the camera panned the SRO crowd at the end of the speech! I hate the media.)
That wasn’t an apology, it was a set up for Hillary.