I heard from colleagues in the Netherlands about it the next morning.  It was an embarrassment.  Then again, I had to remind them about Geert Wilders and the fact that they've certainly got their own version of a firebrand.  As it played out, and I tried to tell my now-voting-age son that this was NOT a normal debate, I wondered if it may have been a deliberate strategy from Trump.  Did he want to be seen as being the tougher character?  The guy who won't let  anything go?  May not matter because I think it could backfire on him.  People I know to be Republican or at least not-reliably-Democrat were appalled.