Confucius say ... wusses who live in glass houses should undress in the basement.
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. —
Awww, Trump is not behaving like a eunuch Republican would.
WAAAAAAAAA!.
No he wouldn’t. He would be gone by now for having no balls to fight back.
LOL! Excellent and accurate. I was sick of his blustering immediately and now I'm sick of his whining.
He isn’t whining, he is fighting back. You can’t handle it. Now who is the wussssssssssssssssss?
Anyone read it? Only NRO guy I would bother with is Andy McCarthy. Smart guy. But if trashes any gop candidate won’t read that either.
The article displays symptoms of T.D.S.
Trump Derangement Syndrome
Trump continues to out RINOs in all of their manifestations—A great service to the thinking voter.
I’m curious as to how many of these institutions (e.g., FOX News, National Review) will be around a year or two from now seeing as they, much like the GOP-e, have shat upon their core supporters.
Trump IS the bully.
Did Trump really do this, or is this the author's wishful thinking?
How can the media and pundits criticize Trump when they behave this way?
Perfect visual for reading this!
I’m done with Trump. Done, done done!. I like his ideas about making America Great Again. I really do. But he usually does not talk about serious issues anymore while on TV. Donald is too immersed in the quicksand of his Cat Fights with Megyn and Ailes.
Donald is his own worst enemy. His petty antics are wasting our time, and are destroying his credibility. I’m sure the Dems would LOVE for Trump to be the nominee. I used to also want that, but not anymore. Donald Trump is so very transparent and so very easy to bait. It will be like giving poisoned candy to a greedy baby!
Can’t wait to see the WEBESISTERS girls response. Those girls need to be making TV ads. I swear. They gave great instructions on how to change from dem to GOP to be able to vote Trump in the primaries.
Confucius say ... wusses who live in glass houses should undress in the basement.
Charles Cooke, you are a lying POS. I have your article as evidence.
Good grief, the lowlife extremes and low standards of today’s so-called journalist class never ceases to amaze.
But I am not complaining except that it is always sad to see another ‘human being’ wallow in their own stink.
Americans of every background can see, if they should hear or glimpse such trash that Cooke propounds, they can see this is garbage but Cooke and his ilk think they are not seen as such in this regard. They are delusional. That’s sad.
And Trump continues to grow in favorables as Americans see what the stupid media keeps dishing out. Trump is helped by it. God’s Will is carried out so unexpectedly.
GOPe tactics worked on you. Congrats.
If Trump stays silent on all the attacks and “talks about issues” (which he does all the time btw I have no idea what you watch) they kill him off, trust me.
You really should modify that. You are speaking for yourself and the minority. He is doing a great service for our country.
Cruz is my guy but Trump is second and might be closing in.
Trump IS THE REASON Faux News attracted 26 million viewer to their debate, aka Trump Ambush #1. They should show him a little respect instead of daily blasting him, belittling him, and calling him not a serious candidate. For over two months now he’s been the acknowledged front-runner. He’s beating the hell out of their RINO favorites. For that reason he is despised by the “fair and balanced” network. They should also cut association with partisan hacks like Will, Rove, Krauthammer, Erick Erickson, and the National Review RINO hack Lowery, who can’t open his mouth with putting down Trump. Hopfully they’ll move out of the country when Donald Trump gets the nomination.
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