The Donald May Have 'Jumped the Shark'

A Fox News panel of Republican voters had harsh sentiments for real-estate magnate Donald Trump's performance Thursday night during the first Republican presidential debate, according to Business Insider.

After the debate, Fox's panel of 23 Republican voters voiced their overwhelming disapproval with Trump, citing his "mean" personality and veiled threat to run as a third-party candidate.

"You know, what happened, I liked him when I came in here because he wasn't a politician. But right now, he skirted around questions better than a lifelong politician ever had," one respondent told Republican pollster Frank Luntz, who conducted the focus group.

Added another respondent whom Luntz identified as Anthony: "I was really expecting him to do a lot better. But he just crashed and burned. He was mean, he was angry, he had no specifics, he was bombastic."

Charles Krauthammer

Before the debate, 14 voters on the panel said they had a favorable view of Trump. After the debate, only three said they still saw the reality-television personality positively.

Meanwhile, Mediaite reports Fox News’ Charles Krauthammer didn’t sugarcoat his take on tonight’s big GOP debate, telling Megyn Kelly it was “the collapse of Trump.”

Krauthammer really panned Donald Trump‘s performance, saying that when he’s “uninterrupted” and can ramble on, he’s fine, but when he’s in a controlled setting like the debate, he gets “lost” and the politicians he mocks “left him out in the cold.”

When Kelly asked him to elaborate, Krauthammer said that Trump was stuck because he couldn’t change the subject and so he was “dodging” and exposed himself to be very “testy” and “thin-skinned.”

Megyn Kelly got into it with Donald Trump early in Thursday night’s first big GOP debate, calling him out for a history of demeaning comments about women. He did not take kindly to that characterization.



“Mr. Trump, one of the things people love about you is you speak your mind and you don’t use a politician’s filter,” Kelly said. “However that is not without its downsides, in particular when it comes to women. You’ve called women you don’t like fat pigs, dogs, slobs and disgusting animals.”

“Only Rosie O’Donnell,” Trump joked, but Kelly didn’t let him get away with that.

“No, it wasn’t,” she continued, asking, “Does that sound like the temperament of a man we should elect as president?” She wanted to know how Trump would combat inevitable charges from Hillary Clinton that he is part of the “war on women.”

Trump turned the question into an issue about “political correctness,” something for which he said the country “doesn’t have time.”