Chillicothe
Platinum Member
- Feb 14, 2021
- 10,168
- 6,525
- 938
This morning's Washington Post (along with numerous other news outlets) offers reportage on Don Trump's speech to GOP donors at Mar-A-Lago yesterday.
Don, it appears, has not reflected and grown.
His playlist hasnt expanded or evolved.
Same ol' hits.
Same ol' enemies and grievances,
Same tired whining.
It's a pity.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
From WaPo, this morning (you can read the whole enchilada with your online subscription)
(my avatar underlined a couple of items for further discussion. See below.)
"Aril 11, 2021 at 12:10 a.m. EDT
"Former president Donald Trump called Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell a “dumb son of a bitch” as he used a Saturday night speech to Republicans to blame him for not helping overturn the 2020 election and reiterated false assertions that he won the November contest.
Trump, speaking to a Republican National Committee gathering at his Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla., excoriated a number of Republicans even as he publicly called for party unity……
Trump spent much of the speech, with many senators in the room, lashing into his former ally in personal terms, often to cheers from the party’s top donors. He falsely claimed that he won the Senate election for McConnell in Kentucky and attacked his wife, Elaine Chao, who served as Trump’s transportation secretary.
“I hired his wife. Did he ever say thank you?” Trump said. He then mocked Chao for resigning in response to the Jan. 6 …… He later called McConnell a “stone cold loser.”
Trump said the crowd at his rally preceding the Capitol attack was so large — falsely claiming that “some people say it was over a million people”
Trump attacked many of his favorite targets, such as Anthony S. Fauci, the country’s leading epidemiologist, even mocking Fauci for his first pitch last season at Nationals Park — a frequent Trump taunt. He falsely claimed that Fauci only received credit because he opposed Trump, an attendee said, and joked that Fauci wanted people to wear five masks after not initially supporting masks. Have you ever seen anybody that is so full of crap?” he said of Fauci.
The former president said, without saying who, that someone recently suggested to him that the vaccine should be called the “Trumpcine.”
Reprising an attack from the day he launched his campaign in 2015, he called immigrants “murderers, rapists and drug dealers.”
“They’re coming in from the Middle East. They’re not sending their best people. You have murderers, you have rapists, you have drug dealers,” Trump said."
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Same ol', same ol'. A tired and worn act.
* OK, those underlined items. I wish someone would compile a list of all the times we've heard or read a Tweet where Don Trump claims some unnamed third parties support his character/view/action, ala'....... "someone said", "people say", or 'people tell me", yadda, yadda, yadda. Without ever identifying who these "people" are.
And always when that little verbal sleight-of-hand is employed it promotes a flattering view of Don Trump.
It is as phony as phony gets. Smart people recognize it as a transparent and cheap verbal trick. Sadly, too many don't.
In my humble opinion.
Don, it appears, has not reflected and grown.
His playlist hasnt expanded or evolved.
Same ol' hits.
Same ol' enemies and grievances,
Same tired whining.
It's a pity.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
From WaPo, this morning (you can read the whole enchilada with your online subscription)
(my avatar underlined a couple of items for further discussion. See below.)
"Aril 11, 2021 at 12:10 a.m. EDT
"Former president Donald Trump called Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell a “dumb son of a bitch” as he used a Saturday night speech to Republicans to blame him for not helping overturn the 2020 election and reiterated false assertions that he won the November contest.
Trump, speaking to a Republican National Committee gathering at his Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla., excoriated a number of Republicans even as he publicly called for party unity……
Trump spent much of the speech, with many senators in the room, lashing into his former ally in personal terms, often to cheers from the party’s top donors. He falsely claimed that he won the Senate election for McConnell in Kentucky and attacked his wife, Elaine Chao, who served as Trump’s transportation secretary.
“I hired his wife. Did he ever say thank you?” Trump said. He then mocked Chao for resigning in response to the Jan. 6 …… He later called McConnell a “stone cold loser.”
Trump said the crowd at his rally preceding the Capitol attack was so large — falsely claiming that “some people say it was over a million people”
Trump attacked many of his favorite targets, such as Anthony S. Fauci, the country’s leading epidemiologist, even mocking Fauci for his first pitch last season at Nationals Park — a frequent Trump taunt. He falsely claimed that Fauci only received credit because he opposed Trump, an attendee said, and joked that Fauci wanted people to wear five masks after not initially supporting masks. Have you ever seen anybody that is so full of crap?” he said of Fauci.
The former president said, without saying who, that someone recently suggested to him that the vaccine should be called the “Trumpcine.”
Reprising an attack from the day he launched his campaign in 2015, he called immigrants “murderers, rapists and drug dealers.”
“They’re coming in from the Middle East. They’re not sending their best people. You have murderers, you have rapists, you have drug dealers,” Trump said."
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Same ol', same ol'. A tired and worn act.
* OK, those underlined items. I wish someone would compile a list of all the times we've heard or read a Tweet where Don Trump claims some unnamed third parties support his character/view/action, ala'....... "someone said", "people say", or 'people tell me", yadda, yadda, yadda. Without ever identifying who these "people" are.
And always when that little verbal sleight-of-hand is employed it promotes a flattering view of Don Trump.
It is as phony as phony gets. Smart people recognize it as a transparent and cheap verbal trick. Sadly, too many don't.
In my humble opinion.
