White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Tuesday that Donald Trump’s appearance, and particularly his famous hair, makes it easy to understand why people don’t take him seriously as a presidential candidate.
At the White House, Earnest said Trump’s overall appearance should give voters pause for thought.
“The Trump campaign for months now has had a dustbin of history-like quality to it, from the vacuous sloganeering, to the outright lies to even the fake hair, the whole carnival barker routine that we’ve seen for some time now,” Earnest said. Earnest was pressed to explain later why the White House would seemingly play Trump’s game by mocking his appearance, but Earnest defended his remarks.
“I was describing why it would be easy for people to dismiss his campaign as not particularly serious … because he’s got a rather outrageous appearance,” Earnest said. “That’s a hallmark of his campaign and his identity; that’s the point that I’m trying to cite.”
Trump has gotten himself in hot water for knocking opponents’ physical attributes, particularly women’s.
In the first GOP presidential debate, he stood by previous unkind remarks he made about comedian Rosie O’Donnell and then went on to insult Fox News’ Megyn Kelly for asking him about it.
After the debate, he said Kelly had “blood coming out of her wherever” when she asked about his penchant for calling women “dogs” and “pigs” and making other unflattering comparisons.
That set off a nasty back and forth between the two and briefly had Trump at war with Fox News itself.
