On Saturday night, during the Graduate Together special, former President Barack Obama sent a subtle, veiled message in the direction of President Trump. It's not as if Obama is piling onto all of the criticism his successor has had to take since before his election in 2016, but the World's Oldest Baby responded the only way he knows how:
Past presidents, from Lincoln to Truman to Obama, accepted criticism without incident, and with dignity. Even Richard Nixon, whom Trump sees as a role model (and not for any good reason, really), knew when he'd been put in a position where he had no choice but to resign in 1974.
In the wake of Obama's remarks, Trump, of course, continued his fabricated conspiracy theory against his predecessor, but offering no depth to his claims, as usual. "Obamagate" is just another scam perpetrated by a jealous Trump, who can't stand the fact that, nearly 3 1/2 years after taking office, he still takes a backseat to Obama in terms of respect.
MSNBC offers comments from both sides over the course of the last 24 hours:
Well, there's another old expression that fits here. Basically, Trump has made his bed, and has to lie in it. Problem is, he lies everywhere else but.
Here's another old expression, and I wish I could remember who said it first:
ReplyDeleteWhen you point a finger at someone else, you're pointing three back at yourself.
Here's the current Worst Case Scenario:
The Mainstream Republicans turn on Mr. Trump - as their counterparts did on Mr. Nixon in 1974 - and try to force his resignation.
But Donald won't go - and the GOP splits in two at convention time.
The Electoral College isn't set up for a three-way race, so unless one GOP or the other collapses completely, we could wind up with no winner - which means that the newly-elected House decides the Presidency, while the newly-elected Senate picks the Vice-President.
It probably won't happen this way - but it MIGHT - it's possible under our rules.
And that's something we should all be thinking about …
I'll see if I can look up that phrase, Mike, and use that sometime.
ReplyDeleteI was going to use the pointing finger quote, but Mr. Doran beat me to it.
ReplyDeleteI'd just like to point out that the graduates in question invited Obama to speak at their ceremony, whereas Mango Unchained had to force those former cadets to come back to their alma mater to listen to him pat himself on the back and tell everyone how allegedly great he is. Note how Combover Caligula is always telling everybody how great he is, while former Presidents like Obama, Clinton and even Bush II would tell us how great WE are. If you have to tell everyone that you're great, then you're not.
Proof positive that a good leader commands respect while a bad leader demands respect.
President Pinocchio spent too much time genuflecting in front of mirrors when he was a kid.
ReplyDeleteDonald had a "mentor", you know: his father, Fred Trump Senior.
ReplyDeleteThere was a Fred Trump Junior, who if plans had gone as they were supposed to,should have been the Heir Apparent - except that Fred Jr. walked away from the family fortune (reasons vary).
Additionally, there two Trump offspring who are older than Donald, but they're Girls; to an Old World dynasty-type like Fred Sr., they didn't count.
That left Donald, the fourth of five, who got Fred Sr.s throne by default.
In an alternate timeline, Donald would have been the butt of the kind of jokes everybody makes about Eric.
I mentioned above that there's a fifth Trump offspring: youngest brother Robert, about whom nobody knows anything - and I strongly suspect that he prefers that anonymity.
Donald the Prez has his own five - and his youngest, Barron the teenager, always looks as though he'd rather be anywhere else in the world when Dad Donald trots him out for a photo op.
OK, that's speculation on my part - but have you ever seen any pictures of Barron Trump smiling?
Some time in the future, there's going to be one hell of a Lifetime movie about this bunch …
… which I am definitely not looking forward to …
Forget Lifetime, Mike. Fox would be more than happy to do a movie bio on the Trumps, likely introduced by his BFF on Fox News, Sean Hannity.
ReplyDeleteNo - if Fox were to do a puff piece on the Trump family (with or without Sean "Eddie Haskell" Hannity), it would be a veneration of them, and thusly dull as hell.
ReplyDeleteYou want the real Trump family story, you go to a sensation house like Lifetime - or better still, one of the streamers like Hulu or Netflix, which never let factors like good taste get in the way of the movie.
I'm afraid that the Real Trump movie will have to wait until nobody's left to sue the makers …
Hannity is an idiot. Trump embarrassed himself again today in Michigan by refusing to publicly wearing a mask while touring a Ford plant. Supposedly, being masked creates a vanity issue with him. Which is something he has in common with his pal Vince McMahon's in-ring persona.
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