Posted on 08/14/2017 1:40:01 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
We saw Donald Trump’s true colors on Saturday, when he was given the chance — a ready-made moment for presidential grace — to denounce the neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, Va., and instead found wrongdoing “on many sides.” That was Trump minus the pressure and the planning. That was his initial instinct, his first impulse.
We saw a different palette at a lectern in the White House on early Monday afternoon, but it was pure artifice, and muted and unpersuasive because of that.
We should also note that he began his brief statement on Monday by congratulating himself on the American economy and implicitly taking credit for what he said were a million new jobs. This is what our self-consumed, ungenerous president prefers to do — brag. He thumps his chest when he should be on his knees.
But the length of his delay upped the ante on his delivery, which was passionless. He barely cleared the bar of grudging. He fell miles short of stirring.
rump’s failings are prompting G.O.P. leaders to enunciate certain principles in a clearer and more unequivocal way than they did before. Because of him, they’re drawing lines in the sand — at least semantically.
Of course the winds of opportunism and convenience could wipe out those lines in an instant. Of course Republicans have upbraided Trump before, only to hug him anew.
But there can be no doubt: He’s past the point of hugging. His pretend amends at the White House on Monday didn’t color him warm, cuddly and redeemed. They were just Trump trying to get through another miserable day. And you, Republican members of Congress, have to figure out how your party and the rest of us get through the next miserable years.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
I think the president and the rest of us should tell Mr. Bruni, the NYT and the rest of the leftist media to show their “Newspeak” requirements where the sun don’t shine.
Seriously. We need to start calling political correctness what it is.
Oh, poor widdle snowflake didn’t get the president to say what she wanted at the moment she wanted so the president has to go.
Aah, the un-redeemable! That worked out well for Hillary! Sorry, but it’s the NY Times’ (or should they change it to the Mexico Times in honor of their owner?) reputation that’s un-redeemable.
Trump’s first statement was OK, not great, he could have named all sides, but now he has capitulated to leftist demands to attack “White Supremacist”. I am disgusted with him and Sessions. I want the $500 I donated to his campaign back.
Every ridiculous screed they come up with now just makes me laugh all the harder.
The NY Times is like the high school mean girl who can’t believe she was not voted homecoming queen.
Bruni has massive butt hurt. Still reeling from November.
Yep.
I think they’re the people for whom “the issue is never the issue, the issue is always the revolution.”
Funny, I feel the same way about Frank Bruni and the New York Times.
...because he was behind the wheel of that Dodge.
NYT, get back to me when YOU denounce ANTIFA and BLM.
Until then, KMA.
NYT beclowns themselves yet again.
Thank you for posting this. It’s good that we can see what the enemy is saying without clicking on their links. I’m starting to visit Drudge less since >50% of the time I’m snookered into clicking on a Compost or Slimes link.
If this was from the NYT,that’s all you need to know to totally ignore it.
Agreed.
The NYTimes cannot redeem itself.
The “irredeemable” label worked so well for Hillary, the NYT thought they’d use it again.
LOL! The NYSlimes is the incorrigible entity here....
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