Las Vegas debate sparks an online storm
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DONALD Trump stirred social media ire on Wednesday after he said: “We have some bad hombres here” and referred to Democratic rival Hillary Clinton as “such a nasty woman.”
The remarks during the third and final presidential debate came as the US Republican presidential nominee struggles to attract support from Latinos and women ahead of the November 8 presidential election.
During the face-off in Las Vegas, Trump repeated his call for tougher security at the Mexican border. He said he would go after major drug dealers in the United States, saying: “We have some bad hombres here and we’re going to get them out.”
Online users quickly seized on the remark. “Sometimes I forget this is a presidential debate and not a SNL (Saturday Night Live) skit” wrote one Twitter user.
The term “bad hombres” became one of the most-discussed topics of the night on US social media and was tweeted out about 134,000 times during and immediately after the debate, according to the brand intelligence firm Amobee.
Trump has aroused criticism for comments about Mexican illegal immigrants during his presidential bid. In August, Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto met the Republican nominee and said later Trump’s policies “could represent a huge threat to Mexico.”
Later in the debate, Trump interjected as Clinton said she would raise taxes on the wealthy to help fund the US government’s retirement program and that Trump would be paying higher taxes too unless he could get out of it. “Such a nasty woman,” he said.
The comment struck many online as sexist, with more than 300,000 tweeting the phrase “nasty woman” by the early hours of yesterday.
“Calling someone a ‘nasty woman’ on live television is so deeply and unbelievably offensive,” said one tweet.
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