The 2016 GOP Presidential candidate and perennial arsehole Donald Trump acting like a lying petulant jerk
as usual... this time, it’s him tastelessly mocking New York Times reporter Serge Kovaleski, who has arthrogryposis.
Jose A. DelReal at Washington Post:
Businessman and reality TV star Donald Trump is under fire for mocking a New York Times reporter with a congenital joint condition during a campaign rally in South Carolina this week, drawing a scornful rebuke from the reporter and others who called Trump’s actions “despicable.”
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On stage Tuesday, Trump berated Times investigative reporter Serge Kovaleski for his recent recollection of an article he had written a few days after the attacks. Trump appeared to mock Kovaleski's physical condition; the reporter has arthrogryposis, which visibly limits flexibility in his arms.
“Now, the poor guy — you've got to see this guy, ‘Ah, I don't know what I said! I don't remember!'"Trump said as he jerked his arms in front of his body.
The gesture was all the more personal because Kovaleski covered Trump while reporting for the New York Daily News between 1987 and 1993, a tumultuous period for Trump in which he struggled through several financial setbacks.
If you had “mocking another human’s physical handicap” as the next foot to go in Donald Trump’s mouth—congratulations. You have unfortunately won.
At a rally on Friday, while citing to a Washington Post article by Serge Kovaleski to support his own whimsical version of 9/11, Donald Trump decided to emphasize his point by physically imitating Kovaleski, a man who suffers from arthrogryposis (a rare, congenital musculoskeletal disorder that limits the movement of his arms).
Donald Trump has added a new item to his growing list of presidential campaign firsts: mocking a person’s physical handicap.
During a defense of his widely debunked claim that thousands of people in parts of New Jersey with large Arab populations celebrated the collapse of the World Trade Center towers on Sept. 11, 2001, Trump performed a derisive impression of New York Times reporter Serge Kovaleski — who suffers from a chronic condition that has limited the movement of his arms — at a rally in South Carolina on Tuesday night.
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Kovaleski suffers from arthrogryposis, a congenital condition that limits the movement of the joints and weakens the muscles around them. As a reporter at the New York Daily News in the late 1980s and early ’90s, he covered Trump’s business exploits and met with the developer on several occasions.
Video of Trump mocking NYT reporter Kovaleski, via CNN:
Washington Post Reporter Jose A. DelReal on Kovaleski’s coverage of Trump during his tenure as a NYDN reporter back in the late 1980s/early 1990s: