Are the Republicans on Capital Hill too hell-bent with their agenda to erase everything Obama that they are so fucking blind they can’t see that Donald J. Trump is patently unfit, incompetent and infantile to occupy the presidency? When are Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell going to get the balls to stand up for the reputation of America and tell Trump to shut the fuck up?
The sad reality about Trump is that he will not change. While appearing on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon in September of 2015, Trump said,
“I think apologizing’s a great thing, but you have to be wrong. I will absolutely apologize, sometime in the hopefully distant future, if I’m ever wrong.”
Can you believe the unmitigated arrogance of such a statement?
Trump’s recent attack on Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough didn’t happen in a vacuum. There is a long history of Trump’s vitriol.
Here are only a few examples of Trump’s history of bullying and abuse.
About his attitude of women in general, he once said this about his daughter Ivanka while appearing on The View in 2006:
“If Ivanka weren’t my daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her.”
Then he said this about former Republican candidate for president, Carli Fiorina:
“Look at that face,” he said, according to Rolling Stone. “Would anyone vote for that?”
“Can you imagine that, the face of our next president?” he added.
He says that when he meets beautiful women he feels able to…
“grab them by the pussy”.
“You can do anything,” he tells Billy Bush, the TV host who is a cousin of George W and Jeb Bush.
About Megyn Kelly:
“You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever.
Granted, all of these happened before he assumed the office of POTUS, but in case you just got back from Mars and missed this, his latest tirade:
Trump’s tweets in the 8 a.m. hour on Thursday said that “Morning Joe” is “poorly rated” (it’s not) and that the hosts “speak badly of me” (that’s true). He called both hosts,
“Low I.Q. Crazy Mika (and)… psycho Joe.”
Trump claimed that Scarborough and Brzezinski courted him for an interview at Mar-a-Lago around the New Year’s Eve holiday.
“She was bleeding badly from a face-lift. I said no!” the president wrote.
FALSE!
He actually said yes, according to accounts of their meeting. Trump, Scarborough and Brzezinski mingled with guests and had a private chat.
In fact Mika Brzezinski was critical of Trump’s fake Time Magazine cover and added,
“…lying everyday and destroying the country.”
Thursday afternoon Sarah Huckabee Sanders tried to defend the president. When asked twice if the president should be held to a higher standard she replied,
“I don’t think you can expect someone to be personally attacked day after day, minute by minute, and sit back.”
OF COURSE HE CAN BE HELD TO A HIGHER STANDARD. He is the president of the United States. As such, he represents more than 300 million people in the most prominent democracy in the world. He is not some private citizen offering a series on inappropriate remarks about women. He is not a cable TV show host. He is the leader of the free world. His salary is paid by taxpayers. He is the symbol of the US both domestically and across the world. He reaps immense power and prominence from that role. And with those things come real responsibility.
Trump has brought all these “perceived” attacks on himself. He has no one to blame but himself. His record speaks for itself. No journalist would be worth their due if they didn’t cover Trump’s pattern of lying, sexism, bigotry and xenophobia via his tweets for what they are: NEWS.
News that the American public has a right to know, frightening and disturbing as it may be.