Posted on 09/24/2015 12:20:32 PM PDT by Steelfish
Donald Trump Is a Yuuuuuuuge Wuss
by Charles C. W. Cooke. September 24, 2015. How quickly was the great hard man reduced to sterile indignation. Last night, on Fox News, Rich Lowry proposed caustically that Carly Fiorina had, let’s say, “neutered” Donald Trump during the most recent primary debate, and that she had done so with all the precision of a surgeon. In an instant, the whining began. “Incompetent @RichLowry lost it tonight on @FoxNews,” Trump griped on Twitter. “He should not be allowed on TV and the FCC should fine him!”
A few moments later, the lip wobbled out of control and the tears began to flow. “@FoxNews owes me an apology for allowing clueless pundit @RichLowry to use such foul language on TV,” Trump mewled. “Unheard of!” The diehard among Trump’s fans like to claim that they are in search of a straight-talking Teddy Roosevelt type who will be capable of repelling Washington’s corrupting slings and arrows with his Great American Hide of Steel. In the wake of such an embarrassing display of frailty, one has to wonder how these people are feeling today.
In the last month alone, Trump has threatened to sue a small-time T-shirt maker whose products bear critical slogans (“Donald Is Dumb,” “Stop Trump,” and “America Is Already Great”); he has attempted to begin legal proceedings against the Club for Growth on the grounds that it has had the temerity to oppose him and his policies (this, Trump says, is “defamation” — a stunted and preposterous piece of legal analysis that lends some credibility to the messages on the aforementioned t-shirts); and he has expressed a desire to use the federal government to censor unpliable journalists for the high crime of being amusing on television. That neither lawsuit has a shot in hell — and, indeed, that the FCC doesn’t actually have any jurisdiction over cable news — does not seem to matter much.
What matters is that Donald Trump feels hurt, and that he doesn’t like it one bit. Send in the bayonets, kids, we have some classy, classy tears to forestall. That it might be unwise to give nuclear weapons to a man who routinely seeks revenge against even the most modest of quibblers seems not to have occurred to the 25 percent or so of the Republican primary voters who are at present sitting on Trump’s bandwagon. For the rest of us, though, I shall make the point clear: This is not a person who should be given access to a military — or even, for that matter, to a modest bully pulpit.
Among the media figures that Trump has thus far called upon to be fired are Lowry (for suggesting that Carly cut him down to size in the testicles department), Jonah Goldberg (for proposing that he “behaves like a “14-year-old girl”), Stephen Hayes (for noting correctly that he is not a conservative), George Will (for arguing that he is a fraud), Charles Krauthammer (for discussing his unpopularity), Chuck Todd (for implying that he isn’t a serious person), Megan Kelly (for . . . asking questions), and Hugh Hewitt (for the same offense). When maligned, Abraham Lincoln picked up his pen or arranged a debate. Donald Trump takes immediately to Twitter and shouts, “take him off the air!”
Why does Trump behave this way? Because he’s a preposterous little trust-fund wuss, that’s why. As was illustrated once again last night, the man is not really a “fighter” or an “alpha male” or an iron-cored “enemy of political correctness.” He’s a thin-skinned performance artist whose peculiar shtick falls to pieces the moment someone useful elects to return a punch. Look through Trump’s recent Twitter contributions and you will see a wounded man who is always a few harsh phrases and a modicum of bad publicity away from curling up in an oversized sweater and listening to “Everybody Hurts” on repeat.
American presidents are supposed to be beacons of hope — steely figures in a dangerous world. They aren’t supposed to have a “hard time” watching Fox News because a quick-witted guest happens to dislike them. They aren’t supposed to reach for the ice cream and stomp their Lilliputian feet if they consider that the press is treating them “unfairly.” And, in a free country such as America, they certainly aren’t supposed to react to each and every disparagement by asking which laws they might use to silence their detractors. It is one thing for a rebellious 3-year old to soil himself at the sign of trouble, and then to shout “Daddyyyyyyyyyyaaa” at the radiator; it is quite another for the prospective leader of the free world to do so.
If Trump wishes to police the country’s sharper purveyors of political animadversion — and to carp impotently about “injustice” and “unfairness” — he really shouldn’t be seeking the White House. He should be using his considerable inherited wealth to better fund the anti-Mean Words department at Oberlin. Make America Pathetic Again? Let’s not go there. —
Washington DC,and its establishment, has failed. It’s that simple.
They’re all trying to out-Trump Trump now that they’ve realized the usual tactics aren’t working. The only difference is that Trump has a purpose to what he’s doing. They don’t. They think they’ve figured out Trump’s appeal, and think they can duplicate it by just venting their frustrations via insults and they think that everyone will now flock to them. Wrong again. First off, there are substantive reasons people are flocking to Trump and not to them. In addition, Trumps attacks are strategic. These losers are just throwing a temper tantrum.
Sounds hugh & series.
I used to like Rich Loery and Tucker Carlson the best. Lowery has gone off the Rez.
“I’m done with Trump. Done, done done!. ... His petty antics are wasting our time, and are destroying his credibility.”
Wasting our time? What do you think he should be doing instead? He’s not President. He can’t go start building the wall, or implement any of his other policies yet.
What do you think the purpose of campaign season is? To build support to win the nomination. If you really wanted to see Trump as our next President, you’d understand that.
By the way, if this latest brouhaha is what did it for you, I’m curious as to why. He was not the one leveling insults in this instance. It was Rich Lowry.
“American presidents are supposed to be beacons of hope — steely figures in a dangerous world.”
Not so much.
Not in the Constitution.
We don’t need another let’s get along guy.
We need the Terminator who makes radical changes to roll back the plague of regulations, government agencies, failure on the world stage, etc. Someone with thick skin to take the fight after them.
Like many others, I wish he’d step up keeping on message.
He does understand that the media and establishment are enemies and he is taking the fight to them.
He is a lone voice.
If the media companies survive on ratings, hit them in their ratings.
If the establishment survives on lobbyist money, call them out.
Right on. Right on. go Trump. Decimate them.
Trump is making some of the same mistakes that Sarah Palin did. Getting all wrapped up in petty inconsequential B.S. on such a regular basis that inconsequential B.S. becomes their Calling Card. This goofball behavior; The Sticky Clown, who annoys everybody, becomes the first and ONLY impression that pops into a voters mind, not the brave and cerebral, Christian Patriot, worthy of leading the country.
People called me ‘nuts!’ when I suggested it last week, but I still think he’s doing this on purpose because he ‘had his fun, and is done playing that character’. Not to mention Donald doesn’t even have time to visit his many estates any more.
Yep.......water boys for the GOPe
That said, I like Jindal. Wish he would get more traction in this race.
You are so wrong!
It could be. Imagine live on-air zots!
"We'll be right back with a new host after we get the set cleaned up."
The point is, that there is a purpose behind what he’s doing. It’s playing out right in front of you and you’re totally missing it. He understands that what drives the media more than anything else is money. People for years have always assumed that the media has the upper hand. Trump is the first one to understand that HE has the upper hand. And he’s making that point right now. The media needs him more than he needs the media, and they are on the defensive. If you understood that you would appreciate how masterfully he’s handled things.
I’m a diehard Trump supporter since day he announced. But I am starting to have serious doubts about him, and he’s causing the doubt himself. I thought he was getting ‘stale’ before Fox said it the other day. He needs to up his game dramatically.
He IS thin-skinned, he focuses too much on himself and the polls. His speeches are predictable and when asked questions they don’t have much substance.
In S. Carolina, his answer to what he would do about lowering energy cost was shallow with little substance. Because of that I only watched about 10 minutes of his S. Carolina sitdown with Tim Scott. . He should have fleshed out a lot more of the issues by now.
I can’t stand Fiorina, but at least she put in the effort to get well prepared for the debate. It didn’t look like Trump had put in much prep at all.
Trump is petulant. If he can’t take the heat from Fox News how will he deal with the mainstream media. The guys is unelectable.
“You see Frank... There are many kinds of weapons and the only one that can stop that is this.”-Morton-Once Upon A Time In The West.
He's leading the polls and beating cankles. Now what are you going to do?
I think I've read that before. Seventy or eighty times.
As Trump himself has pointed out, all the candidates have hand written speeches that they deliver time and time again. You don’t notice it because their speeches don’t get the publicity that Trump’s speeches do. If you saw the last 10 speeches that Walker, Rubio, Bush, or any of the other candidates have given they would be almost identical. Trump delivers his speeches without a script, so while some of it is repetitive, there’s more variation in them than those of the other candidates whose speeches are totally scripted.
Another National Review crybaby desperately seeking relevance.
I’m not familiar with that quote, but I get your point.
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