Thursday's campaign trail and debate banter between GOP presidential candidates
Donald Trump and Marco Rubio about hand sizes was "disgusting," BBC's Katty Kay said Friday, and she does not wish to hear such language from the Republican candidates.
"It was a very phallic day on the campaign trail," Kay, the lead anchor of BBC World News America, said on MSNBC's
"Morning Joe" program, where she is a frequent panel guest.
"It was that day where you got to the the end of the day
. . . I felt I wanted a shower because it was so disgusting."
During Thursday's debate, Trump commented that if Rubio's comments last week about his "small hands" was an attack on his manhood, "there is no problem."
Trump was referring to Rubio's comments after last week's debate that Trump's hands were small, when he said "and you know what they say about men with small hands . . . you can't trust them."
Kay said she can't believe "there were not a lot of women watching like I was, who thought, 'This is gross. This is what we have come to. I do not want to hear this stuff during the course of my day.'"
And, she continued, "it's kind of offensive that you have to sit and listen to this language as a woman, a man talking like that on television running for president," Kay said.
NBC's Willie Geist agreed the talk was shocking, including when Trump said in the debate that former GOP nominee Mitt Romney, who has come out strong against his candidacy, would have "gotten on his knees" for Trump's endorsement in 2012.
"I don't shock easily, I think you know that," said Geist. "None of us do anymore, but that line from Trump, I went, 'Whoa.' And then the line at the debate where he was talking about his hands. Whoa. And that doesn't happen very often."
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