“Rowdy” Roddy Piper was a wildly popular pro wrestler. During an interview, the Rowdy One would snarl and pace, while hurling insults and threats at an opponent.
That’s why his talk show was called “Piper’s Pit.” Roddy would do anything to get under an opponents’ skin. In Roddy’s world there were no rules, no decorum, no class.
Piper understood it was the show — not substance — that counted. What really mattered was creating a macho character, spewing hate and bringing your adversary down with you in the gutter.
Roddy died in 2015 but his spirit lived on in Donald Trump during Sunday’s so-called Town Hall “debate” with Hillary Clinton.
This was Donald’s Pit.
Trump, who snorted and prowled the stage like a cross between Groucho Marx and Scar from “The Lion King,” turned this verbal brawl into a main event from the WWE. He howled and scowled all night long.
Can’t wait to see Alec Baldwin’s next debate riff on Trump on “Saturday Night Live.”
Trump’s theme song in this debate would have been Radiohead’s “Creep.”
Now that Trump’s presidential campaign has self-destructed and he has no chance of winning, all the guy has left to do is to harass and try to humiliate Hillary.
It could have been worse. He could have, in Trump language, “grabbed her by the p—y.”
Instead, Trump went alt-right nuclear: Digging up Bill Clinton’s female accusers, threatening to put Hillary in jail, and throwing his own VP candidate Mike Pence under the bus.
When asked about the infamous video tape released last week, during which Trump bragged about hitting on married women, and using words sounding like sexual assault, the Donald blew it off as “locker room talk.”
After listening to Trump’s tape, you need to go to the locker room to take a shower.
Trump did offer some revealing remarks.
For the first time he admitted using a $916 million dollar loss on his tax returns in 1995 to avoid paying federal income tax for years.
Trump calls that smart.
He wants to toss Hillary in the slammer, just like something Trump’s buddy and role model Russian President Vladimir Putin would do to a political opponent.
Trump calls that justice.
“You would be in jail,” Trump scolded Clinton, adding he would instruct his Attorney General to nail her.
Donald apparently has no sense of history. We don’t do that in America. Richard Nixon tried it once for the people on his “Enemies List” but his Attorney General quit and soon after Nixon resigned.
Trump wasn’t satisfied trashing Hillary so he turned to his running mate Mike Pence. Last week in a vice-presidential debate, Pence criticized Russia and said the US should be prepared to use force in Syria against the Assad government.
This really bugged the Donald.
“He (Pence) and I haven’t spoken and I disagree,” Trump shot back to moderator Martha Raddatz.
Trump calls that loyalty.
No wonder Republican Party leaders are fleeing Trump in droves.
Also, incredibly, Trump talked in positive terms about Russia and Iran for fighting ISIS. “We have to worry about ISIS before we can get much more involved.” Trump said.
Trump calls that foreign policy.
Clinton had a few surreal moments of her own. Trump went after her for “destroying 33,000 emails.” When talking about transcripts quoting her as saying she takes different issues in public and private, Clinton claimed she got the idea from a movie about Abraham Lincoln.
Trump couldn’t believe his ears, “Now she’s blaming the lie on the late, great Abraham Lincoln.”
Abe has been dead for about 150 years but for once, I agree with Donald.
Abe is late and he’s still great.
Just like Roddy Piper.