Saturday, May 27, 2023

Embarrassing

Donald Trump said he wanted to “personally congratulate” Ron DeSantis for formally entering the presidential primary, hours after the Florida governor filed paper work with the Federal Election Commission launching his candidacy.

Posting on the social media platform Truth Social, Trump  called the governor “Rob DeSanctimonious” and said he hoped his Republican rival would “get the full experience of being attacked by the Marxists, Communists, and the Radical Left Lunatics of our Country.”

"I’d like to personally congratulate “Rob” DeSanctimonious on finally announcing that he will be entering the race for President of the United States. Hopefully he will get the full experience of being attacked by the Marxists, Communists, and Radical Left Lunatics of our Country, without which he will never know the kind of job he is doing. These Lowlifes & Misfits are far worse than the leaders of hostile foreign countries. They must be soundly defeated in order to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!"

As always - The Donald elevates the rhetoric, showing dignity, decency and respectability. And maybe most of all - maturity. 

So sad and utterly pathetic.

A Ben/Bas Torah might have reason to vote for Trump b/c last time he had a good record on central issues. But we have to remember that as a human being we are light years separate from him and his way of speaking and acting. It is an embarrassment to the USA and to humanity that such a person has such a public platform for all of his megalomaniac infantility. 

In the summer of ’16, Charles Krauthammer wrote this about Trump’s character:

“This is beyond narcissism. I used to think Trump was an 11-year-old, an undeveloped schoolyard bully. I was off by about 10 years. His needs are more primitive, an infantile hunger for approval and praise, a craving that can never be satisfied. He lives in a cocoon of solipsism where the world outside himself has value — indeed exists — only insofar as it sustains and inflates him … (He) is dangerously out of the mainstream and temperamentally unfit to command the nation.”

Trump rapidly confirmed Krauthammer’s character assessment by responding this way: “I get called names by a guy that can’t buy a pair of pants.” That insult made no sense — unless you knew as Trump did that Krauthammer could not walk. He’d been confined to a wheelchair since sustaining a head injury in a swimming pool at the age of 22.