The passionate blowback was especially notable given Trumps thoughts on so-called “PC culture.”

“Political correctness is just absolutely killing us as a country—you can’t say anything,” Trump said in August, after uttering a wildly misogynistic joke at the expense of Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly.

 

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