Donald Trump on Tuesday turned Hillary Clinton’s decision to bark at Republicans during one of her recent campaign rallies into an opportunity to blast the media.
The Republican presidential hopeful, whose fastened his criticism of members of the press permanently into his stump speech, said Clinton’s awkward dog noises, which she wove into a story about Republicans, during her campaign rally Monday received positive coverage from the media. Trump argued that if he’d behaved similarly, he would have been ridiculed.
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“I turned on the television and I see her barking like a dog and everyone’s saying, ‘Isn’t that wonderful? Isn’t that cute?'” Trump told voters during a campaign stop in North Augusta, S.C. “If I ever did that, I would be ridiculed all over the place.”
He continued, “She’s barking like a dog and they’re saying ‘wonderful.’ Trump does that – believe me, you’ll read about it.”
“‘What’s wrong with Trump?'” the billionaire said, suggesting what headlines might look like if he suddenly started barking on stage.
“So there will be no barking,” Trump stated matter-of-factly, before launching into his regular spiel against the press.
Despite Trump’s claim that Clinton’s barking received favorable coverage in the media, the former secretary of state has, in fact, been mocked relentlessly on the internet in the 24 hours since she was caught on camera barking.
RedState, a conservative website founded by Erick Erickson, ran the footage with the headline, “Hillary Clinton doesn’t just bark like a dog, she barks JUST LIKE a dog! (Seriously. It’s Uncanny),” while Independent Journal Review asked their readers to submit short videos mocking the former first lady’s barking.
Bark on me, a new hit single by HRod https://t.co/9OOtmT3UrL
— kenny wassus (@kgw) February 16, 2016
