We all know he doesn't take criticism very well. He insists on referring to CNN, MSNBC, et al, as "fake news", which it really isn't. He engages in grade school name-calling and insults, such as referring to Meet The Press moderator Chuck Todd as "sleepy eyes". He's in his 70's physically, but, mentally, he's regressed to about 10 or lower. Youngest son Barron would be embarrassed to admit the self-proclaimed stable genius is his father. Then again, Barron's half-brothers, Don, Jr., & Eric, aren't exactly mentally sound, either.
So when second generation journalist Chris Wallace (Mike's son) played it straight down the center with a recent guest that had critical remarks about the President's handling of COVID-19, well, this was the reaction....
Trump ripped into Wallace, who anchors Fox News Sunday, and claimed that Mike Wallace treated him well whenever he was on 60 Minutes back in the day. Trump's idea of liking people is that if you treat him with respect, he likes you. However, if you confront him with actual details and facts he doesn't agree with, well.......
Trump has claimed he won't wear a protective mask to demonstrate how important such masks are to the public during the pandemic, but wife Melania has no problem. There was a picture of her with a mask last week. The difference? Trump feels he needs to appear on TV every freakin' day to address the public, but wastes their time by stretching those briefings to 2 hours and change. He thinks the mask will scare viewers away. Actually, he might've been doing that all by himself, but I digress. He has advisors like Dr. Anthony Fauci to address the issue. Fauci, however, is rumored to be on the firing line because he offended the World's Oldest Baby by stating that he believed the US should've acted sooner had they known sooner about the coronavirus. Oh, Trump couldn't have that, and reacted thus...
I don't think he pays as much attention to his staff of advisors, pastors, Cabinet members, et al, as he claims he does. In contrast, Governor Cuomo keeps his daily briefings as short as possible, and is also being honest with the people of New York. He is the Anti-Trump.
Now is not the time to engage in immature antics like grade school taunts. Trump has been playing the Ugly American for years, but the facade needs to disappear. Real leaders are mature, responsible, stable. This is the picture our overseas allies have of our President...
And, then, there is a report that says MGM, which co-produced The Apprentice, from whence Trump developed the facade of a tough boss, has to turn over some footage that alleges there were some inappropriate things said and/or done on the set of that series. One wonders if this pattern of behavior didn't start with his association with Vince McMahon........
Savage! Love it when he sticks it to establishment media:
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His back is against the wall. The pressure is mounting. He can't keep deflecting forever. Either he starts telling the truth, or he's finished in November......
ReplyDeleteBack in 2006, Robin Williams made a feature film called Man Of The Year.
ReplyDeleteWilliams played a smart-aleck TV comedian who runs for the US Presidency as a joke (see Pat Paulsen, among others); through a series of flukes, he winds up winning the election - and soon realizes that he's in over his head.
The movie was unsuccessful in its own time: the consensus was that the premise was just too preposterous.
(Also, people were kind of tired of Robin Williams by then, but that's another story …)
Think about it …
Everyone knows Presidents are SELECTED, not elected.
ReplyDeleteThough I will admit that when he announced he was running, I thought he was doing it for a reality show.
@Mike: I haven't seen Man of The Year, but it sounds as though Williams' character actually has more on the ball after all than Trump, and it might've been Williams fulfilling what might've been if Paulsen took his "candidacy" seriously.
ReplyDeleteAnd how could people be tired of Williams after nearly 30 years at that point?
@Magicdog: I know you're referring to the Electoral College, which saved Trump's wrinkled butt four years ago. However, after Mike's reference to Man of The Year, I think now we know where Trump got the idea to run.....
Just back from viewing Man Of The Year on DVD.
ReplyDeleteTom Dobbs (the Robin Williams character) is a TV comic, sort of a benign Bill Maher.
He gets talked into running by his manager (Chris Walken), and at first takes it all very seriously indeed.
But when he does it that way, people say he's boring, so he starts to gag it up, encouraged by his chief writer (Lewis Black).
How he "wins" - the country has adopted a computerized voting system which (unbeknownst to all) has a HAL 9000-style glitch in it (which the movie never explains), causing Dobbs to carry states over his two opponents, whose names are Kellogg and Mills (this is a sort of hint as to how that happens, but as I said, there's no real explanation).
Laura Linney is a computer worker at the company who spots the glitch and tries to report it, both before and after, and it's up to Dobbs to Do The Right Thing …
Of course, this isn't anything like our current situation, which was a wholly natural outgrowth of the Electoral College, a monument to illogic and duplicity - but you know that …
Suggested study:
There's a website called 270 to Win, which is a history of our Presidential elections over the years.
There's a page titled "Gaming The Electoral College" which demonstrates clearly what is wrong with this system, using the state-by-state totals in the 2012 and 2016 elections as evidence.
Would you be surprised to learn that in 2012, Mitt Romney could have beaten Barack Obama for the Presidency - even though Obama would still have been 5,000,000 votes ahead in the popular vote?
This page is interactive; you can see this for yourself - and you should.
Beyond that, I'll just let you (and anybody else out there) check it out for yourself.
How, then, to explain away the persuasive appeal of someone like Trump? It sounds as though the writers of Man of The Year created some interesting tech that hasn't been created yet in real life.
ReplyDeleteI'll check out 270 to Win.