Eugene Robinson - Trump "making a sad clown of himself."

[Soph0571]

No one expected Trump to play the consoler-in-chief role particularly well; we know him by now and grade him on a curve. His prepared statement Monday on the deadly shootings, which he read from a teleprompter with all the passion of a hostage tape, was about all anyone could expect. But even with my jaundiced view of this president, I couldn’t have imagined that soon after getting home to the White House, he would be tweeting about all the “love, respect & enthusiasm” he was shown and complaining that the “Fake News worked overtime trying to disparage me.”

Me, me, me, me, me. Always me, never anyone or anything else.
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At one point, Biden repeated something he has said throughout the campaign — that he fears that having Trump in the White House for a second term could irrevocably change the nation. I used to think that was hyperbole, but I’ve come to fear he may be right.”

Biden is most emphatically right, Eugene, the nation has already changed, much for the worse.

[link:https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/8/9/1877843/-Eugene-Robinson-Trump-making-a-sad-clown-of-himself?utm_campaign=recent|


Indeed.

[DeminPennswoods]

1. Don't know why Robinson couldn't imagine

Trump tweeting about himself after his campaign stops in Dayton and El Paso.

[ginnyinWI]

2. it's a figure of speech. n/t

[ecstatic]

3. I'm disappointed in some of what he wrote

He used to think Biden was being hyperbolic?! I really don't get it! Hopefully that was a lame attempt to connect with independents or something.

[Maxheader]

4. The only changes dementia boy is making

are the ones the gop handjobs in the senate allow..Having the liberal controlled house has helped keep stumpy from messing with actions that need congress to agree on...Dickhead has a little success going through the courts..

[kentuck]

5. The nation has changed already.

He doesn't need another four years.

[myohmy2]

8. +1

...four more years would be icing on a cake of hate...

...trump...

[gordianot]

6. Trump is more like the clown from "It".

Emmet Kelly portrayed “Weary Willy” a sad clown who had some humanity. Trump does not have an ounce of humanity but his orange hair, spray on orange tan, weird long ties and tiny hands do make a convincing clown.

He takes children and locks them up in cages.

[PandoraAwakened]

7. My tRump clown t-shirt

While I am not currently wearing it (given the solemnity of the crossroads our nation currently faces), my favorite shirt to wear when humor is called for features a clownface tRump with the slogan "Elect a Clown, Expect a Circus!"

[smirkymonkey]

9. There is no way we can allow Trump a second term.

It will be national suicide. And that is not hyperbole. I honestly do not believe we will survive another four years of him as a functioning democracy. He has to go.