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Donald Trump Is a Yuuuuuuuge Wuss
National Review ^ | September 24, 2015 | Charles C. W. Cooke

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. —


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To: mrsmith

Yes but his tiff with Fox News seems petulant.


161 posted on 09/24/2015 6:58:12 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee (May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't. - Patton)
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To: orinoco

But why be so ornery over Fox News? And Hugh Hewitt a week or so ago?


162 posted on 09/24/2015 6:59:05 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee (May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't. - Patton)
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To: dforest
Jeb would be worse. As would Rand Paul.
163 posted on 09/24/2015 7:00:02 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee (May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't. - Patton)
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To: kabar

Yes, They can’t control him to shift jobs to Mexico. They are taking cover.


164 posted on 09/24/2015 7:05:42 PM PDT by WENDLE (Boycott FAUX!!)
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To: Sam Gamgee

A thousand petty attacks will finish off a candidate as well as a few major ones will. That’s the usual MO of the media, actually: a constant flow of slightly ‘slanted’ coverage.


165 posted on 09/24/2015 7:07:54 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: lee martell
Agreed. His "solutions" are very vague. I like his un-PC commentary - I really do. But that, and disgust by the traditional politicians, is what's driving his poll numbers, not his ability.

Then again, our current politicians are crap too.

166 posted on 09/24/2015 7:09:28 PM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: fingers_crossed

He’s going to have great people. Didn’t you know that? That will solve every problem known to man.


167 posted on 09/24/2015 7:27:42 PM PDT by RightFighter (This space for rent)
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To: Servant of the Cross

He’s kind of simian looking, in that picture.


168 posted on 09/24/2015 8:03:50 PM PDT by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches and get with what's real.)
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To: Steelfish

GOPe does not like anyone getting uppity with them. Glad Trump is uppity.


169 posted on 09/24/2015 8:37:59 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: Steelfish

Some say that GOPe shill Charles C. W. Cooke wears his underwear backwards, to enable easier access to Lefty sodomites...


170 posted on 09/24/2015 8:38:29 PM PDT by kiryandil (Maya: "Liberalism Is What Smart Looks Like to Stupid People")
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To: Sam Gamgee

Fox and Hewitt are GOPe supporters and their questions and comments are biased against Trump. Trump knows that and also wants the audience and primary voters to know about their bias as well.


171 posted on 09/24/2015 11:51:09 PM PDT by orinoco (Orinoco)
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To: W.P. Wily

I used to watch Americas Most Funniest Home Videos but there were way too many guys featured taking shots to the groin and the audience laughing their a$$es off.

Any guy that has had that happen to them knows it’s no laughing matter.


172 posted on 09/25/2015 4:15:45 AM PDT by RetSignman (Obama is the walking, talking middle finger in the face of America)
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To: RetSignman
I used to watch Americas Most Funniest Home Videos but there were way too many guys featured taking shots to the groin and the audience laughing their a$$es off.

Funny you would bring that up, when my kids were young (a loooooong time ago, back when Bob Saget was the host) the producers of AFV got a nasty letter from me about that very subject. Nothing has changed in 20 years.

173 posted on 09/25/2015 1:36:03 PM PDT by W.P. Wily
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To: CatherineofAragon
Someone asked a question. I provided an answer.
The nerve of you, answering a question! What subterfuge will you dream up next? ;).

---Signed,
The BluesDuke of Earl.

174 posted on 09/25/2015 4:56:38 PM PDT by BluesDuke (BluesDuke'll be back on the same corner in front of the cigar store . . .)
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To: BluesDuke

;)


175 posted on 09/25/2015 5:35:22 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon ("A real conservative will bear the scars...will have been in the trenches fighting."--- Ted Cruz)
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To: MinuteGal; manc; wymck; ghost26; PJammers; myuval; tiredofreeloaders; WBITT; bigcheese; Yulee; ...
“ALERT !!!...FLORIDA FREEPERS STRAW POLL...ALERT !!!
Florida freepers from the Central and Southern FR chapters had a great get-together Sept. 16 for a “FReep the Debates” large-screen TV viewing/private-facility party.

Co-hosts were MinuteGal/Leni and Ken50/50 (Ken).

Tasty buffet supper, fun debate-watching, many door prizes and, of course, fantastic freeper fellowship.

Present were many Tampa Bay-area freepers, lurkers and guests. Also honoring us with their presence were Matchett P-I who is the Florida Central FR Chapter Leader and Seek the Truth who is the Florida Southern Chapter Leader.

Co-host Ken50/50 circulated a GOP candidate straw poll for the attendees to fill out anonymously during the second debate.

The entire survey is posted on the Florida state forum board. Highlights of the poll are as follows:

Your first choice for the GOP nomination: Trump 45%, Cruz 22%, Carson 11%.......see #122

*****************
We Florida Freepers sure do have fun! Just wish we could get together in person more often, but our state is large and we all have busy lives for sure!

Just in case any once seeing this post might be interested, here are Donald Trumps events from today.

Donald in DC this morning:
http://youtu.be/f6AxQvqISek

Donald in Oklahoma this evening:
http://m.therightscoop.com/live-video-of-trump-speaking-in-oklahoma/

176 posted on 09/25/2015 8:28:04 PM PDT by seekthetruth (I still want a Commander In Chief who honors and supports our Military!)
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To: MinuteGal

Can only agree, but Cruz, likewise Barry is NOT a NBC as well as Rubio, Jindal!!!


177 posted on 09/25/2015 8:47:08 PM PDT by danamco (-)
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To: All; ken5050
See # 122 for results of Florida Freeper mini-straw poll.

Leni

178 posted on 09/26/2015 7:58:25 AM PDT by MinuteGal (Florida FReepers have more fun !!!)
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