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. —
Drop the “ Y” Charles, Trump pronounces it “ uuuuuuuuugh” .
Sooner or later Trump will be in free-fall ...
Ah man, you’re so much smarter than that!
No doubt the other candidates are learning that lesson too. They are very circumspect about going after Trump head-on.
Ditto.
When you have In-Laws who up to this point in time are as Apolitical as the Amish bringing up Trump in Conversation, you know something is up.
I’ve been preaching Cruz to them for years and they just look at the Ceiling while I waste my breath.
All of a sudden, my Wife pipes up and tells me she was talking to her Mother about how she really likes Trump. I ask her why and she tells me that she and apparently her Mother think Trump will actually do something to get America back on track.
As soon as Trump brought the Illegal Invader problem front and center they were hooked. I am still dumbfounded by this complete change in People that I felt were Moderate to Center Left in their Beliefs, and yes I’m including my Wife in that observation. (No, she does not read my FR Posts, I enjoy living in peace)
Did I mention that my Wife, her Sisters and Mother are Latinas? (well, half Latina anyway, her Mother Married a Gringo who spent half his Childhood in Mexico)...
Whatever the next Year brings, it will be the most interesting Election Season I can remember.
I guess Trump should have demanded a loyalty oath from the GOPe and the RNC. The GOPe would rather lose than see someone who is not a member of the club win.
Rich Lowry and NRO died to me when they forced out John Derbyshire for telling non-racist truths about race in America. Lowry is a cowardly dipshit who has nothing to do with true conservatism.
So Trump's solution in answer to a critical member of the press exercising the 1st amendment is to call in the federal government . . . to punish that person? Interesting.And some people think only the left calls for the government to punish those with whom they disagree for no good reason other than that they do disagree.
We're talking about a man who threatens to sue tiny T-shirt makers for making shirts with slogans he doesn't like . . . who wants to sue a policy group for nothing better than that it disagrees with his (actual or alleged) policies (to The Donald, apparently, a policy disagreement equals defamation; didn't we all think it was a bit of an outrage when the when policy disagreements equaled defamation or close enough to His Excellency Al Hashish Field Marshamallow Dr. Barack Obama Dada, COD, RIP, LSMFT, Would-Be Life President of the Republic Formerly Known as the United States?) . . .
Funny how The Donald and his sycophancy defended his right to call Rosie O'Donnell a fat pig during a debate but deny Rich Lowry's right to say another candidate castrated him, metaphorically, during another debate.
The FCC has the authority to regulate content that goes over public airwaves. Not cable.
Why is it that any article that points out things that Trump has said, done or supported is a "hit piece"?
Things that make you go hmmmmm.....
Because that’s what they are...wouldn’t you agree? No, I didn’t think so....
Only on broadcast TV; the FCC has no jurisdiction over cable TV.
Jindal is not thin-skinned, and he said he would build a wall too:
JINDAL: Yeah, I wanted to clarify - I want to make very clear that everybody understands my position is, we need to secure the border, period.
Any talk of doing any more - we don’t need a comprehensive plan, don’t need an 1,000-page bill, like the Gang of Eight. We don’t need amnesty.
Everybody in D.C. talks about it. We need to get it done. As president, I’ll get it done in six months. It won’t be perfect, but we can get it done. -CNN Debate
http://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2015/09/16/cnndebate-transcript-6pm/
We have to get us a Free Republic cable channel.
Wouldn’t that be a blast??
Start picking the daily lineup of hosts and commentators NOW!
National.review seems to have a death wish.
Back when I was drinking the Republican kool aid I would have agreed with chipmunk cheeks(of course I’m talking about Rich Lowry)........NO MORE. He’s a pompous know-it-all and I can’t stand to watch him now. What was I thinking. I pray the Donald will set this uni-political class on it’s arse.......we sure couldn’t do worse than what we have now.
Donald trump is smoking out faux conservatives on a daily basis
This article is a negative piece, sure, but a hit piece? Nah. It’s factual, and makes an argument based on Trump’s own conduct and statements.
[...FCC take em off the air.]
Maybe they should tell the media that they are required to bleep out offensive words or statements so that young impressive children won’t have to ask their parents...”What does that mean’ Daddy”?
Yeah, I was raised in a generation in the distant past.
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