Items not to ignore
Former President Donald J. Trump said that Michelle Obama had made a “big mistake” by criticizing him, as he responded on Monday for the first time to her recent searing comments about his mental state.
“I always tried to be so nice and respectful,” said Mr. Trump, who in 2011 spent weeks spreading the lie that Barack Obama, the country’s first Black president, was actually born in Kenya, with the insinuation being that he was therefore illegitimately in office. He added, “She opened up a little bit of a box.”
No, he didn’t always try to be so nice and respectful. He never tried to be that. He doesn’t do nice and respectful. He expects nice and respectful toward him, from everyone, no matter what, but he absolutely does not reciprocate, let alone give away for nothing.
Mr. Trump made the comments at a rally in Atlanta, in response to what Mrs. Obama, the former first lady, said about him while campaigning on Saturday for Vice President Kamala Harris in Michigan. At that event, Mrs. Obama said some voters were ignoring Mr. Trump’s “gross incompetence.” She said Mr. Trump had displayed “erratic behavior” and “obvious mental decline,” and noted that he had been found “liable for sexual abuse” in a civil case and that the former president was now a felon.
Who is more at fault here? Michelle Obama for pointing out the bad things or Donald Trump for the bad things?
I have to go with the second option. I think the problem is the reality of Trump’s very real gross incompetence and erratic behavior and obvious mental decline and his liability for sexual abuse and his felony conviction.
Poor Donnie… “You see how she is?” Oh boo hoo, idiot.
Despite what? Her being female? Her being darker skinned than you? Her being from a different social class?
He absolutely reeks of contempt.
“She opened up a little bit of a box.” I’m assuming this is his way of saying ‘her remarks now make it acceptable to me to be as vile and disgusting as possible in my remarks about her.’ That should go well for him. (I am really hoping he’s doing a good job of snatching defeat from the jaws of potential victory by insulting a significant segment of his supporters.)
It’s very very very domestic abuse territory. “Ok now you’ve done it/pissed me off/said it once too often.”
LOOK WHAT YOU”VE MADE ME DO!
Domestic abuse. That’s what I thought when I read it: sounds almost like a threat.
I heard part of that Obama speech. She really sounded pretty good, talking tough about things someone needs to talk tough about. And she is the real kind of tough, not the fake, he-man, play tough of Trump and his buddies.
This is what Carlson was doing the other day with the “spanking” comment as well. These guys self righteously talk down to people when they have no business telling anyone anything. It’s repulsive.