Athletes fire back at Donald Trump for his 'locker-room talk' excuse during the debate
Remember Donald Trump? He's that heavyset orange gentleman with a sniffling issue that ran for President in 2016. He is best known for making a comment about grabbing something he should not be grabbing. Leading into the second debate, that audio understandably dogged him and became a talking point on Sunday night.
How did Trump defend himself? By claiming it was "locker room talk." For me, locker room talk is, "Why is that old man wearing nothing but a shirt? And why has been walking around the locker room with no bottoms for five minutes?" But then again, most of us don't frequent lavish country club locker rooms like Trump does.
But when "locker room talk" came up, professional athletes, who spend more time in locker rooms than any adult males on the planet, they had their say about it.
As an athlete, I've been in locker rooms my entire adult life and uh, that's not locker room talk.
— Obi-Sean Kenobi Doolittle (@whatwouldDOOdo) October 10, 2016
"Grab them by the pussy" isn't talk from any locker room I've ever been in. It's a Ted Bundy quote. #debate2016
— player/coach (@CMPunk) October 10, 2016
Is this a joke?
— Joakim Noah (@JoakimNoah) October 10, 2016
Just for some clarification I wasn't in the same locker with Donald Trump when he so called had this locker room talk. Lol
— imoan claiborne (@ImoanClaiborne) October 10, 2016
"Locker room talk" 👀, don't you do that!!! What sport you played? Lol
— Bernard Pollard Jr (@Crushboy31) October 10, 2016
"Locker room talk" 🙄
— Donté Stallworth (@DonteStallworth) October 10, 2016
Ay, for real why is "locker room banter" Trumps defense? Who said that's how we talk in the locker room?
— joey mbu. and 94 others (@NotoriousMbu) October 10, 2016
Former tight end Ben Watson realized that maybe Trump's locker rooms aren't like the ones he frequented.
Ahhhhh. Like at the country club. See my bad because I didn't define terms! Wouldn't know about that locker room https://t.co/y0MIXq10uK
— Benjamin Watson (@BenjaminSWatson) October 10, 2016
"Are you kidding?" was the general response of most athletes. Brooklyn Decker, the swimsuit model and wife of former tennis player Andy Roddick, had a different perspective.
Dear @andyroddick , is this normal locker room talk? ✊🏽🙀? If so... 🔪🍆!
— Brooklyn Decker (@BrooklynDecker) October 10, 2016
You see, her feeling is if Roddick is talking about punching cats, she will cut his eggplant. I speak 100 percent fluent emoji and that's what it says.
There were also the more serious responses, like pointing out that putting your mouth on someone that doesn't want it on them isn't locker room behavior, either.
Olympic hurdler Queen Harrison had a similar sentiment.
"Locker room talk", "Boys will be boys", "Harmless banter". These are not valid excuses for behavior. Never have been, never will be.
— Queen Quedith Claye (Harrison) (@goQueengo) October 10, 2016
Finally, Blake Griffin tweeted about another concerning issue — that a 70-year-old man was breathing heavily, perhaps winded, from simply standing.
All this heavy breathing seems more locker room-esque than anything #debate
— Blake Griffin (@blakegriffin23) October 10, 2016
How can someone this out of shape know what it's like in a locker room if he's never worked out in his life?
