Senior Republicans Are F’kn Furious At Trump For His Comments On Women

Earlier today, the Washington Post published a previously-unseen video from 2005, in which Donald Trump well and truly out-Donald Trumped himself, making a variety of sexist comments to an Access Hollywood reporter while off-camera. 
You can read a rundown of his remarks here, including a portion about a shady-as-fuck-sounding furniture shopping-and-chill trip, but the real cherry on top of the shit sundae was the part where he told host Billy Bush
“You know I’m automatically attracted to beautiful – I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star they let you do it. You can do anything … Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything.”
The internet has already done what the internet does best, and reclaimed the truly heinous phrase “by the pussy” as part of the weird Twitter vernacular:


Trump initially tried to play the audio off as nothing serious – joking that he’d heard Bill Clinton say worse on the golf course – but the blowback is now so severe that senior Republicans are turning against him. 

While the populist Trump, who entered the race with little to no political experience, was already something of an outsider as far as the Republican establishment, these comments were enough to push his party over the edge. 
His policy platforms about banning Muslims and building a wall to keep Mexicans out didn’t inspire this level of swift and unanimous condemnation from the Republican faithful, but that’s none of my business.  
Florida governor Jeb Bush, a one-time rival of Trump’s for the nomination, called his statements “reprehensible”:

Utah Republican Gary Herbert took the nihilistic Bernie Bro approach, declaring that, while he can’t vote for his guy, he won’t be voting for the other side either:

The meek and mild Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusetts, got as angry as he has probably ever been in his life:

Ted Cruz called Trump’s outburst “disturbing and inappropriate”, and as a supporter of gay conversion therapy, this is a guy who knows disturbing and inappropriate:

Trump is on the defensive and has already issued an apology that goes way wide of the point. His opponent Hillary Clinton, meanwhile, has wasted no time trying to galvanise public sentiment against his remarks:

The US federal election is on Tuesday November 8, so we potentially have a whole month of this shit to go. Strap in, folks.  
Source: Twitter.
Photo: Ethan Miller / Getty.

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