by Pa Rock
Citizen Journalist
Donald Trump is a bully. He has always been a bully - and the possibility of that changing for the better in the current millennium is somewhere on the far side of never. Everyone knows he is a bully, yet few with a national megaphone have dared to stand up to him. Hillary Clinton tried to during the debates and Trump brushed her aside like a pesky mosquito by labeling her a "nasty woman." That's what bullies do - name-call and belittle.
And bullies always strive to have the last word. They have to talk the loudest and the longest.
Senator Jeff Flake of Arizona had the temerity to announce that he had voted for a third-party candidate for President, and Trump responded by going into full battle mode and encouraging his party in Arizona to abandon its junior U.S. Senator. That's what bullies do - instigate and berate.
Bullies get their bluff in quickly and are always on the offensive. They want to be the absolute boss and quickly move to shut down defiant behavior. That's why it was odd, yet refreshing, this week to see a few cracks beginning to develop in the Trump fortress.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, the nation's chief diplomat and the person who is fifth in the line of succession to be President (behind Fat Boy, Pence, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, and Senate President Pro Tem Orrin Hatch), apparently disparaged his boss last summer at a meeting in the Pentagon when he referred to Trump not only as a "moron," but according to some news sources actually called The Donald "a f--king moron." Tillerson passed up an opportunity this past week to personally deny the story, but the State Department trotted out a lackey a few days later to deny it for him.
Today Trump lambasted the Tillerson story as "fake news," but said if his cabinet secretary had made the statement he would be glad to compare IQ scores with him. (Being officially labeled a "moron" would entail an IQ test, and a skilled grifter would likely do quite well on one of those measures - even a two-bit con-man who didn't know squat about history or current geo-political situation.)
And then there's Bob Corker, the Republican senator from Tennessee who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Corker recently announced that he was not going to run for re-election, and Trump immediately got on his Twitter machine and took credit for Corker's decision saying that the Tennessee senator had begged Trump for an endorsement, but that he declined. It was a shot across the senator's bow, but instead of crawling off into some dark corner and licking his wounds, Senator Corker fired this tweet right back at the bully-in-chief:
Ouch!
Corker then said on an interview program that Trump was treating his office like a "reality show" and that his reckless threats towards other nations could set our country on a path to "World War III."
Double ouch!
Just because Bob Corker is not currently planning on running for re-election to the Senate, does not remove him from that chamber. Even without running in 2018, he will remain a United States Senator until January of 2019 - fifteen more months. Donald Trump will need Corker's votes for tax "reform," mistreatment of immigrants, crippling American health care, and who-knows-what-all over the next fifteen months, and now he has gone and seriously pissed off the senator from Tennessee.
And Jeff Flake, and Ben Sasse, and Rand Paul, and John McCain, and Lisa Murkowski.
Keep it up, Donald! Make those Republican Senators be your bitches! Show them that you're the boss! Bullies are so cool!
And so are morons.
Citizen Journalist
Donald Trump is a bully. He has always been a bully - and the possibility of that changing for the better in the current millennium is somewhere on the far side of never. Everyone knows he is a bully, yet few with a national megaphone have dared to stand up to him. Hillary Clinton tried to during the debates and Trump brushed her aside like a pesky mosquito by labeling her a "nasty woman." That's what bullies do - name-call and belittle.
And bullies always strive to have the last word. They have to talk the loudest and the longest.
Senator Jeff Flake of Arizona had the temerity to announce that he had voted for a third-party candidate for President, and Trump responded by going into full battle mode and encouraging his party in Arizona to abandon its junior U.S. Senator. That's what bullies do - instigate and berate.
Bullies get their bluff in quickly and are always on the offensive. They want to be the absolute boss and quickly move to shut down defiant behavior. That's why it was odd, yet refreshing, this week to see a few cracks beginning to develop in the Trump fortress.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, the nation's chief diplomat and the person who is fifth in the line of succession to be President (behind Fat Boy, Pence, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, and Senate President Pro Tem Orrin Hatch), apparently disparaged his boss last summer at a meeting in the Pentagon when he referred to Trump not only as a "moron," but according to some news sources actually called The Donald "a f--king moron." Tillerson passed up an opportunity this past week to personally deny the story, but the State Department trotted out a lackey a few days later to deny it for him.
Today Trump lambasted the Tillerson story as "fake news," but said if his cabinet secretary had made the statement he would be glad to compare IQ scores with him. (Being officially labeled a "moron" would entail an IQ test, and a skilled grifter would likely do quite well on one of those measures - even a two-bit con-man who didn't know squat about history or current geo-political situation.)
And then there's Bob Corker, the Republican senator from Tennessee who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Corker recently announced that he was not going to run for re-election, and Trump immediately got on his Twitter machine and took credit for Corker's decision saying that the Tennessee senator had begged Trump for an endorsement, but that he declined. It was a shot across the senator's bow, but instead of crawling off into some dark corner and licking his wounds, Senator Corker fired this tweet right back at the bully-in-chief:
"It's a shame the White House has become an adult day care center. Someone obviously missed their shift this morning."
Ouch!
Corker then said on an interview program that Trump was treating his office like a "reality show" and that his reckless threats towards other nations could set our country on a path to "World War III."
Double ouch!
Just because Bob Corker is not currently planning on running for re-election to the Senate, does not remove him from that chamber. Even without running in 2018, he will remain a United States Senator until January of 2019 - fifteen more months. Donald Trump will need Corker's votes for tax "reform," mistreatment of immigrants, crippling American health care, and who-knows-what-all over the next fifteen months, and now he has gone and seriously pissed off the senator from Tennessee.
And Jeff Flake, and Ben Sasse, and Rand Paul, and John McCain, and Lisa Murkowski.
Keep it up, Donald! Make those Republican Senators be your bitches! Show them that you're the boss! Bullies are so cool!
And so are morons.
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