Trump with his own Half of USA comments, I smell a new ad
During a June 2015 interview on Fox News with Sean Hannity, Trump declared:
The problem we have right now—we have a society that sits back and says we don't have to do anything. Eventually, the 50 percent cannot carry—and it's unfair to them—but cannot carry the other 50 percent.
Trump had expressed this view before. During a January 2015, interview with Kasie Hunt of MSNBC, he proclaimed,
"We have a tremendous amount of people in this country that don't want to work. They have no inclination to work."
When Romney was caught saying that 47 percent of Americans do not accept the responsibility to take care of themselves,
Trump declared that Romney should not apologize because he was essentially correct. "You do have a large percentage of people not paying taxes," Trump said at the time. "You do have a large percentage of people that feel they're entitled." Entitled to handouts and a free ride, that is.
Trump does appear to believe that the United States is full of losers. During a campaign stop in Wisconsin in March, he groused:
Now you have people that aren’t working. Look, it's all about incentive. People have to want to go out, they have to want to. We have no incentive in our country anymore. We're losing in every way. We're losing in that way because we have so many people that don’t want to work. We have so many people that if given the right incentive would love to work, but they'd love to do it. We don’t have incentives anymore. We don’t have spirit anymore. Our country doesn’t have spirit. We lose in so many ways.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/...ca-deplorables
