US taking in Syrian refugees is ‘insane,’ Trump says after Paris attack

Trump speaking during a campaign stop at Iowa Central Community College on Thursday evening in Fort Dodge, Iowa. It’ll be his equally transgressive attack on Marco Rubio, the Florida senator and pseudo-frontrunner who seems to be the only GOPer who understands how to deal with Trump on his own terms.

Stephen invites Adam and Jamie from Mythbusters to come on the show and once and for all answer the question if Carson’s knife could or could not have broken by hitting the belt buckle of his friend who he tried to stab at the age of 14.

“Anybody have a knife?” Want to try it on me? “Believe me, it ain’t gonna work”, Trump said, indicating that a buckle would provide no protection. But low and behold, it hit the belt, and the knife broke. To which Trump, in Iowa, said, “Give me a break!”

“And the people of Iowa believe him. We have to compete with other countries”, Trump reiterated during a Wednesday morning interview on MSNBC, in which the candidate was pressed on whether people can survive on the current federal minimum wage of $7.25.

Trump followed up his rally rage with a 15-second ad, complete with creepy Friday-the-13th-themed music, continuing the attack on Carson.

But it was a different story on Thursday as Trump turned brusque.

He said the incident showed Carson had a “pathological” temper. Carson poses the biggest threat to Trump’s dominance in the large primary field and has recently eclipsed Trump in a few polls.

Trump said Carson had a “pathological disease” that was incurable, the way a child molester’s condition, according to Trump, is incurable. “There’s no cure for that”.

“I expect that kind of thing”.

“He goes into the bathroom for a couple of hours, and he comes out, and now he’s religious”, Trump said. How was that meeting with Putin?

Trump also directed his ire at extremists in the Middle East, and President Barack Obama’s policies there.

Donald Trump has had it, and he’s making sure everyone knows it. “The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all”, the treaty says. That’s right. I’d blow up the pipes….

A senior Trump adviser told me the candidate wouldn’t take back a single word.

Likely Republican voters also said that Trump (40 percent) and Carson (24 percent) would have the best chances of winning a general election campaign.

Regarding “Debate exposes GOP division”, (Page A1, Wednesday), the article says that Dr. Ben Carson faced “virtually no scrutiny” in the Fox News debate over what he wrote about himself in his 1996 autobiography.

Trump’s rant against Carson quickly became a lively topic on social media yesterday. How stupid are the people of SC?

“He’s a good guy but he’s been spending a tremendous amount of advertising money in Iowa”, Trump said.

Could it be that mocking American POWs for their capture, musing over female journalists’ menstrual cycles, and comparing opponents to child molesters truly is the mark of an advanced, self-aware mind? If you’re pathological, there’s no cure for that, folks. “It’s another example of the sad state of affairs for the GOP, and a risky prospect for the nation if Trump or his followers are given the keys to the White House”.

The attacks produced the expectable amount of bellicose response from candidates in both parties, and the Republicans fell all over themselves to oppose taking in Syrian refugees, a la Gingrich’s observation. “Can you imagine that, the face of our next president?”

In the many twists of this presidential race so far, you’ll find no sharper contrast than the Trump who left the stage in Fort Dodge Thursday night and the one who bounded onto a stage in Beaumont, Texas Saturday afternoon, as the nation reacted to Friday night’s terrorist attacks in Paris.