Here's my two cents, for what it's worth (which I realize is next to nothing). I think that many of the posters here defending Trump actually do know, deep down, that this is entirely unacceptable behavior from a Presidential candidate, but they are way too far along in this whole ugly election argument to be able to admit it now.

 

To further what Rollerjag has been saying, there is a huge difference between 'locker room banter' or 'guy talk' (whatever you want to call it), and what Trump said. If he had simply said 'wow look at her, she has great legs, I'd love to xxxx her', then yes, you could pass this off as 'guy talk'... something that almost all of us have said at some point in our lives. Something like that, whilst not exactly what you would want to hear from a potential president, would have been easily brushed aside. Personally, I wouldn't have cared about it at all. But that is very different to what he actually said. He said that he can use his position of power to sexually molest women. That can't be denied. You can't say he was just joking, he is clearly bragging about something he does, and the numerous reports that have emerged over the last few days confirm that behavior. That is not 'guy talk'. That is 'rape talk'.

 

I have a question for anyone who considers Trump's remarks to be 'no big deal'. Imagine you have a son. That son is the captain of his High School football team and extremely popular. One day he comes home and says to you 'Dad, it's great being captain. I grab girls by the xxxxxxxx and they let me do it because I'm so popular'. How would you deal with that situation?

---