Watch Hundreds Of Old White Dudes Go Wild About Donald Trump Calling Women “Fat Pigs”

The first Republican Primary Debate just finished up in the US, and boy is it just a great time to shotput your devices in the bin and run screaming, eyes wild, arms flailing, straight into the sea. The event, predictably hosted by Fox News, featured a bunch of ostensibly successful, respected adult men boasting about their plans to gut social services; men fervently arguing about who’s more pro-life; and men arbitrarily yelling things like “GREAT FUTURE”, “MILITARY”, “ILLEGAL ALIENS” and “GROWTH”.

You might have picked up on a subtle theme:

Candidates on the debate stage. #GOPDebate pic.twitter.com/yhktf0EWl2

— TODAY (@TODAYshow) August 7, 2015

Though this is all pretty predictable — these guys descend like a plague of locusts on some unlucky convention centre to yell about all this every four years — today’s proceedings have been kicked up a notch with the presence of knotted pile of old cat hair-cum-budding Leader of the Free World Donald Trump. Continuing his stellar run for the Presidential nomination which has already included Nazis and two controversies referencing rape, the reality TV star was always going to make things eventful, and it turns out he delivered fairly early on.

Within the first ten minutes, Fox News political commentator Megyn Kelly’s threw her first question to the Presidential hopeful — one which centred upon his long-running objectionable treatment of women. “You’ve called women you don’t like, ‘fat pigs,’ ‘dogs’, ‘slobs’, and ‘disgusting animals’,” she said. “Your Twitter account has several disparaging comments about women’s looks. You once told a contestant on Celebrity Apprentice it would be a pretty picture to see her on her knees. Does that sound to you like the temperament of a man we should elect as president?”

Since a lack of ego isn’t really a problem for a guy who spent 90 percent of his announcement speech blasting Neil Young and ranting about how fucking rich he is, Trump naturally deflected the criticism. After taking the opportunity to take a totally inappropriate cheap shot at Rosie O’Donnell, he told the official moderator he was sorry if she didn’t like it, and threatened that he could be pretty mean to her as well: “What I say is what I say”.

Of course, this isn’t new. I don’t know if anyone would even be surprised if he had leapt over the podium, spat in her face then immediately asked for her number. The standard for this debate was never going to be high. What’s more surprising is the crowd’s reaction. Though polls have been indicating that Trump is the leading Republican candidate for some time now, it’s always felt like a dumb mistake or cruel joke — an elaborate ruse orchestrated as a parting gift for Jon Stewart’s last show.

Unfortunately not. Here’s an amorphous sea of jacked-up, middle-aged, white bags of human garbage hollering and cheering while a potential Presidential nominee lobs openly misogynistic insults at innocent women on national TV:

Seeya!