"You, or anyone else, can be repulsed by Trump's boastful lying about grabbing womens' genitalia in greeting *and* be repulsed by the policy actions you cite. There is no sense arguing deductions from a faulty premise, in this case that the two are mutually exclusive."

The outrage doesn't seem to be proportional.  In fact, I didn't see any outrage at all over our foreign policy under Obama.  The anti-war movement has been AWOL since Bush left office.  In America, words matter more than policy.  We could compare Trump's comments to Hillary's Rape of Libya, but unfortunately things like that don't matter to American voters.  His comments will always be perceived as outrageous whereas our foreign policy is "meh, whatever."  

I could be wrong.  Do you think the outrage over Trump's comments has any analogous examples with Obama's immigration policy or foreign policy with either the public or the media?  I haven't seen it.  The Rhetorical Model is highly accurate.  Words matter most.