by Pa Rock
Nasty Citizen Journalist
Yesterday at the White House coronavirus task force briefing, a daily event that has lately been taken over by Donald Trump himself, NBC journalist Peter Alexander asked Trump what the reporter later referred to as a "softball" question - or one that would give the President an easy opportunity to reassure the American people in a time of crisis. Alexander looked at Trump and asked:
Trump, who is not known for his intellect or his ability to think of his feet, took Peter Alexander's softball question and threw it in the trash, passing up an opportunity to reach for great rhetorical heights, and to revert to the use of his favorite derogatory adjective - nasty - instead. The moment was pure Donald Trump.
A very quick review of news articles on the internet shows that Trump uses the term "nasty" to describe both women and men who make him angry in about equal measure, but some reports seem to suggest that he particularly likes to use it to describe women because he feels that the word throws them off balance provokes more of a reaction.
America first saw Trump flying his "nasty" flag in a debate with Hillary Clinton in which he referred to his opponent as "such a nasty woman." But that is literally only one of numerous times that he has chosen to take that particular low road. He has also railed against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as being "nasty," as well as Democratic Senators Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, and Mazie Hirono. Trump has called Carmen Yulin Cruz, the female Mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico as "nasty," as well as Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, and Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen after she mocked him for talking about buying Greenland from Denmark.
Donald Trump has called reporter April Ryan "nasty," as well as his former aid, Omarosa Manigault Newman. He also called Manigualt Newman a "dog,' and he publicly referred to comedian and actress Rosie O'Donnell as a "pig."
And after calling women "nasty" and comparing them to various farm animals, Donald Trump also likes to use blood imagery. He once described Fox News anchor Megan Kelly as having "blood coming out of her whatever," and MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski as "bleeding badly from a facelift." Both of the bloody descriptions were, of course, lies - as is most of what Trump says.
But it's not just women. Trump also likes to turn his slimy tongue on men as well, particularly political opponents and journalists. Over recent years he has called several Republican senators "nasty" including Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Lindsey Graham, and Mitt Romney. He has also used that juvenile appellation on former President George W. Bush and Texas Governor Greg Abbott. Trump has called Hillary's former campaign manager John Podesta "nasty," as well as Sidiq Khan, the Mayor of London. Some of the journalists that he has slimed with that same name - besides Peter Alexander - include Juan Williams, Tom Friedman, David Gregory, Donny Deutsch, and the late Charles Krauthammer.
Yesterday after Trump's imperious assault on journalist Peter Alexander, entertainer Bette Midler, not a Trump fan, took to Twitter and lamented that Trump "only knows sixteen words - an one of them is 'nasty.'"
Somewhere around fourth or fifth grade, Donald Trump's parents told him that he no longer had to pay any attention to his teachers - and that is where his acquisition of knowledge came to an abrupt end. People who didn't like Little Donnie were "nasty," and that's all he really needed to know from that point onward.
But in truth it is Donald John Trump who is nasty, and as long as that fact goes unchallenged and he remains in the Oval Office, Donald Trump's nastiness sticks to us all. Someday he will be gone, and when that glorious day arrives we all need to take a couple of bars of Granny Clampett's lye soap and hit the showers - and scrub until we bleed from our whatevers! Then and only then will all of the nastiness be at an end!
Nasty Citizen Journalist
Yesterday at the White House coronavirus task force briefing, a daily event that has lately been taken over by Donald Trump himself, NBC journalist Peter Alexander asked Trump what the reporter later referred to as a "softball" question - or one that would give the President an easy opportunity to reassure the American people in a time of crisis. Alexander looked at Trump and asked:
"What do you say to Americans who are watching you right now, who are scared?"But instead of taking that simple question and using it to calm America, Donald Trump chose instead to perceive it as some sort of threat, and he replied by exploding in a vindictive rant against the reporter:
"I say you're a terrible reporter. That's what I say. I think it's a very nasty question and I think it's a very bad signal that you're putting out to the American people."
Trump, who is not known for his intellect or his ability to think of his feet, took Peter Alexander's softball question and threw it in the trash, passing up an opportunity to reach for great rhetorical heights, and to revert to the use of his favorite derogatory adjective - nasty - instead. The moment was pure Donald Trump.
A very quick review of news articles on the internet shows that Trump uses the term "nasty" to describe both women and men who make him angry in about equal measure, but some reports seem to suggest that he particularly likes to use it to describe women because he feels that the word throws them off balance provokes more of a reaction.
America first saw Trump flying his "nasty" flag in a debate with Hillary Clinton in which he referred to his opponent as "such a nasty woman." But that is literally only one of numerous times that he has chosen to take that particular low road. He has also railed against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as being "nasty," as well as Democratic Senators Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, and Mazie Hirono. Trump has called Carmen Yulin Cruz, the female Mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico as "nasty," as well as Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, and Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen after she mocked him for talking about buying Greenland from Denmark.
Donald Trump has called reporter April Ryan "nasty," as well as his former aid, Omarosa Manigault Newman. He also called Manigualt Newman a "dog,' and he publicly referred to comedian and actress Rosie O'Donnell as a "pig."
And after calling women "nasty" and comparing them to various farm animals, Donald Trump also likes to use blood imagery. He once described Fox News anchor Megan Kelly as having "blood coming out of her whatever," and MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski as "bleeding badly from a facelift." Both of the bloody descriptions were, of course, lies - as is most of what Trump says.
But it's not just women. Trump also likes to turn his slimy tongue on men as well, particularly political opponents and journalists. Over recent years he has called several Republican senators "nasty" including Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Lindsey Graham, and Mitt Romney. He has also used that juvenile appellation on former President George W. Bush and Texas Governor Greg Abbott. Trump has called Hillary's former campaign manager John Podesta "nasty," as well as Sidiq Khan, the Mayor of London. Some of the journalists that he has slimed with that same name - besides Peter Alexander - include Juan Williams, Tom Friedman, David Gregory, Donny Deutsch, and the late Charles Krauthammer.
Yesterday after Trump's imperious assault on journalist Peter Alexander, entertainer Bette Midler, not a Trump fan, took to Twitter and lamented that Trump "only knows sixteen words - an one of them is 'nasty.'"
Somewhere around fourth or fifth grade, Donald Trump's parents told him that he no longer had to pay any attention to his teachers - and that is where his acquisition of knowledge came to an abrupt end. People who didn't like Little Donnie were "nasty," and that's all he really needed to know from that point onward.
But in truth it is Donald John Trump who is nasty, and as long as that fact goes unchallenged and he remains in the Oval Office, Donald Trump's nastiness sticks to us all. Someday he will be gone, and when that glorious day arrives we all need to take a couple of bars of Granny Clampett's lye soap and hit the showers - and scrub until we bleed from our whatevers! Then and only then will all of the nastiness be at an end!
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