Posted on 10/21/2021 6:26:08 PM PDT by Ennis85
was bombarded with criticism on Tuesday for labeling late Secretary of State Colin Powell a 'RINO' who 'made plenty of mistakes' in a statement one day after Powell's death of COVID-19 complications at age 84.
In an email full of mixed messages, Trump commented on the posthumous praise Powell has been receiving since Monday morning and said he hoped he'd get the same treatment 'one day.'
'Wonderful to see Colin Powell, who made big mistakes on Iraq and famously, so-called weapons of mass destruction, be treated in death so beautifully by the Fake News Media,' Trump said in a statement through his Save America PAC.
'Hope that happens to me someday. He was a classic RINO [Republican In Name Only], if even that, always being the first to attack other Republicans. He made plenty of mistakes, but anyway, may he rest in peace!'
People across the political spectrum seized on the comment. Trump was accused of being 'jealous' of the posthumous media coverage Powell was receiving.
Others attacked the ex-president for 'dancing' on Powell's 'grave' and lashing out because he's insecure.
Trump's insulting comments came barely more than 24 hours after Powell's death.
'So how does this statement from the former President of the United States make you feel as an American?' Democratic Rep. Ted Lieu of California said on Twitter.
Political scientist Larry Sabato not only condemned Trump but also members of the ex-president's party who 'keep silent' on his Powell comments.
'No decent human being will defend Trump’s malevolent, spiteful, narcissistic statement on Gen. Powell. But those Republicans who keep silent today will speak volumes about how Trump has debased them and their once-great party. Candidates with no courage never deserve our votes,' Sabato wrote on Twitter.
Jon Soltz, the leader of progressive veterans' group Vote Vets,
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Well, he was a RINO, and seemingly proud of it too!
Some folks think when someone dies, it’s ‘inappropriate’ to say anything uncomplimentary about them. Why?
We are talking about political policy, not individual personality here. Being a RINO, or fence sitter was Colin’s Brand. At least it was until Obama, then, Colin didn’t even pretend to be impartial anymore.
He didnt say anything everyone already knew
Good grief
Rush said as much many years ago
Why are people upset he was called a RINO? He bailed on the GOP and became an Obama supporter; he was not non-partisan. What is wrong with one (novice) politician (Trump) calling him a RINO? Just because Powell is dead doesn’t change this.
Had Powell remained non-political it would have been different. That would have been understandable but it is not the case.
I agree with DJT but did saying this gain him anything?
He could have kept his thoughts to himself...but after what they’ve done to him I can understand him spouting off...even if the timing isn’t so good.
Truth hurts...
How dare he call that RINO a RINO!!!!
He should have kept quiet until after the funeral. Why stoke the flames when the room is aleady hot
Zero F’s given!
The upcoming end-years for Boomers is going to present vomitous pomp and insufferable platitudes for the viewing audience to wriggle through.
From the not so distant past, Twain alludes to the present day American’t lunacy... and sadly, the Early Boomers legacy.
“But we love the Old Travelers. We love to hear them prate and drivel and lie. We can tell them the moment we see them. They always throw out a few feelers; they never cast themselves adrift till they have sounded every individual and know that he has not traveled. Then they open their throttle valves, and how they do brag, and sneer, and swell, and soar, and blaspheme the sacred name of Truth! Their central idea, their grand aim, is to subjugate you, keep you down, make you feel insignificant and humble in the blaze of their cosmopolitan glory! They will not let you know anything. They sneer at your most inoffensive suggestions; they laugh unfeelingly at your treasured dreams of foreign lands; they brand the statements of your traveled aunts and uncles as the stupidest absurdities; they deride your most trusted authors and demolish the fair images they have set up for your willing worship with the pitiless ferocity of the fanatic iconoclast! But still I love the Old Travelers. I love them for their witless platitudes, for their supernatural ability to bore, for their delightful asinine vanity, for their luxuriant fertility of imagination, for their startling, their brilliant, their overwhelming mendacity!”
(Mark Twain - The Innocents Abroad)
If you call yourself a Republican but vote for Democrats, what else ARE you?
Truth triggers them.
As a Trump voter and supporter, I've still hated the almost daily cringe moments.
The anti-Trump WSJ creeps did get one thing right, and (paraphrasing) Trump is his own worst enemy.
Why on Earth give enemies so much material?
For pity sake, Mister President, please please please learn tact, diplomacy, and wise statesmanship. It will serve you (and us) so very well.
And, yes, Mister Powell was a RINO of the first degree.
And, there is plenty of time to make this point, following a reasonable wait.
Many fine folks hereabouts will not agree with my assessment, and I'm fine with that. I respect your opinions. (flame-proof underwear and all.)
Totally agree - Powel was/is a RINO from way back. I used to admire him, but he showed his true colors during the GWB administration. He started waffling and the final straw was when he supported Obama BECAUSE he was black. Not because he was the best qualified - just due to his skin color. that told me everything I had suspected about Powel for many months. Sorry folks, Powel like McCain was NEVER a hero for America!!!
I did not notice the backlash. I was too busy cheering and agreeing with Trump.
Who First called him the RINO that he was!
It wasn’t Trump.
Well yeah, I have been calling him that for about 16 years now.
Maybe a bit more.
Trump is kind of slow on the up take with that one.
Never a good thing to bad-mouth the recently dead - even if they are fully deserving of it or not.
unexpected
LMBO
These clowns are as desperate today, as they were mid June
of 2015.
Attacks from who? Oh. His political enemies.
Gosh, I am shocked.
Spare me this BS.....as if I couldn’t see right through it.
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