Donald Trump is a "crude blowhard with no clear political philosophy," the publisher of a major New Hampshire newspaper said in a front page editorial that compares him to "Biff," the bully from the "Back to the Future" film trilogy.
"[He has] and no deeper understanding of the important and serious role of president of the United States than one of the goons he lets rough up protesters in his crowds,"
Union Leader Publisher Joseph McQuaid wrote in his Monday editorial.
Not only that, said McQuaid, "reminds us of the grownup bully "Biff" in the "Back to the Future" movie series. Lo and behold, the screenwriter says that he based Biff on Trump."
In October, "Back to the Future" screenwriter Bob Gale told
The Daily Beast that Marty McFly's arch nemesis, Biff Tannen, as an adult, did have some comparisons with Trump.
"We thought about it when we made the movie! Are you kidding?" Gates said. "You watch 'Part II' again and there's a scene where Marty confronts Biff in his office and there's a huge portrait of Biff on the wall behind Biff, and there's one moment where Biff kind of stands up and he takes exactly the same pose as the portrait? Yeah."
Also, in Part II of the series, Biff uses the profits from his 27-story casino to shake up the Republican Party before he assumes political power and pushes Hill Valley, California residents to call him "America's Greatest Living Folk Hero."
McQuaid's editorial, which boasts side-by-side photos of Trump and Biff, urges New Hampshire to send "Biff Trump" back to somewhere, "anywhere but on the road to the most important elective office in the United States at a most crucial time for this nation."
Trump is due in the state Monday night, where he'll attract a large crowd, said McQuaid, and the crowds and polls are leading the GOP front-runner and pundits to believe he'll win the party's nomination.
"That is an insult to the intelligence of Republican voters," said the publisher. "Beginning right here in New Hampshire on Feb. 9, a great majority of them will disabuse him of that notion."
The media is covering Trump not only because he's good for ratings, but because electing him as the nominee is the best way to send Hillary Clinton to the White House, alleged McQuaid.
"Trump can certainly be an entertaining character," said McQuaid. "He toys with TV journalists and dismisses critics with name-calling that drives the politically correct crowd insane. But his public descent into bathroom humor and verbal bullying has been painful, and educational, to watch."
But Trump has said Sen. John McCain, who went through years of torture as a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War, is not his type of "war hero," said McQuaid, "not that Trump ever served in the military."
He commented about Carly Fiorina's looks, said McQuaid, and mimicked and mocked a New York Times reporter's physical disabilities for questioning a Trump "falsehood."
The Union Leader, which is New Hampshire's largest newspaper, has
endorsed New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie for the 2016 GOP nomination, saying that "as a U.S. attorney and then a big-state governor, he is the one candidate who has the range and type of experience the nation desperately needs."
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