President Donald Trump went off script during his Wednesday commencement speech to Coast Guard Academy graduates, saying critics and the media had treated him more unfairly than any politician "in history."Smooth move, addressing a bunch of young men and women who are going to face perilous conditions at sea and using the occasion to whine that people are being oh, so mean to him.
Any politician in history? Does he really want to test that? President Andrew Johnson? Or maybe he has forgotten what he himself said, in critic mode, about President Obama (very little of it was good). Does he remember when right-wingers were openly calling for JFK to be shot? Does he remember the protests against his successor over the Vietnam War? Does he recall the mockery endured by Richard Nixon?
If you go abroad, you'll find lots of politicians whose critics killed them. You can start with Sennacherib, who was assassinated about 2,700 years ago, and work up from there. There were probably political assassinations in Sumer, for all anyone knows.
Did this fucking crybaby actually think that every day, he could walk into his office on a carpet of rose pedals, tossed by fawning reporters?
Jeebus! I don't like Trump, but this shit comes with the job. Any politician with half of a working cortex knows that.
Trump's whining was especially tin eared as he had proposed cutting 1.3 billion from the Coast Guard budget. Extremely good discipline by the Coasties to not boo and moon the Orange Shitgibbon.
ReplyDeleteBut has he got the "half of a working cortex" necessary for that knowledge?
ReplyDelete(Speculative hypotheses have been floating around suggesting a negative answer to that question. The good news is that he is not Nehemiah Scudder. The bad news may be that Pence is.)
D., "If this goes on" p, we will indeed get to find out, but Pence's refusal to meet with women alone doesn't quite match Mr. S!
ReplyDeleteThat, CP, could change quite quickly.
DeleteAh, but Pence will set aside his wife in order to give the distaff side the glory of his presence.
ReplyDeleteHas everybody here encountered Trumnp's Razor (variant of Occam's) that Josh Marshall has put about? That the dumbest explanation that fully explains what the President* is doing is invariably the correct one.
One name. Just one name. Nelson Mandela Enough said.
ReplyDeleteYeah, well, Trump can't even take a cable car to the top of Masada. He wouldn't have lasted 24 hours at Robben Island.
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