Even though the Republican Party has moved to the right in recent years, a majority of the public would find abhorrent his views on contraception, gay marriage, attacking Iran, his comparison of the Obama era to pre-World War Two Germany, and his perplexing comments on Obama's "radical environmentalism".
BBC News looks back at some of Russell Brand's more perplexing comments.
In his perplexing comment, he insisted that I was fulfilling stereotypes for identifying myself as "sassy" in my blog description.
First he made his perplexing "many sides" comment, putting blame on both the Unite the Right rioters and counter-protestors, then followed it up with a scripted speech denouncing white supremacists.
A C.I.A. spokesman, Mark Mansfield, said after the hearing that "Kay's comments are perplexing and have changed remarkably over time -- he ought to look at some of his own past statements and then perhaps he wouldn't be in such a rush to criticize".
The publication called it "more perplexing than challenging" and commented that it "sounds like the biggest band in the world having one of the biggest, strangest mid-life crises".
I have to comment on the perplexing point of view of Ina May Gaskin, the lay midwife featured in the article about home birth.
MARK ROSENGARTEN, Newburgh, N.Y., posted on nytimes.com MOMMY WARS: THE PREQUEL I have to comment on the perplexing point of view of Ina May Gaskin, the lay midwife featured in the article about home birth.
This comment is particularly perplexing because each of the articles addressed exposure assessment issues, and two of the reports dealt almost exclusively with exposure assessment, monitoring and modeling of exposures, harmonization of exposure assessment methods, mixed exposures from CAFOs, and establishment of monitoring networks for characterization of exposures.
Trump's comments have proven both perplexing and painful for Latinos employed by his businesses, which stretch from resorts to beauty pageants to golf courses, including Ferry Point.
Perhaps the most perplexing reaction of all in the comment cloud is the fear of new ideas, new forms, new experiments in this thing most of us should never call journalism.
