It’s becoming increasingly difficult for Donald Trump supporters to defend the words and actions of the Republican presidential candidate.

But it’s not for a lack of trying.

Take former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling, for example, who went on Fox Business Network and tried — without much success — to explain away a recently discovered tape of Trump talking to a group of preteen girls and saying about one of them: “I am going to be dating her in 10 years. Can you believe it?”