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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Fri Jul 28, 2017, 10:20 AM Jul 2017

Peggy Noonan: 'Weak and sniveling' Trump is not as strong as his wife

BY AIDA CHAVEZ - 07/28/17 10:02 AM EDT

Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan says President Trump’s primary problem as a leader is not that he is “inexperienced, crude, an outsider” but that he is “weak and sniveling” and “undermines himself almost daily by ignoring” traditional norms of American masculinity.

“He throws himself, sobbing, on the body politic,” Noonan wrote Thursday in a Wall Street Journal column.

“He’s a drama queen. It was once said, sarcastically, of George H.W. Bush that he reminded everyone of her first husband. Trump must remind people of their first wife. Actually his wife, Melania, is tougher than he is with her stoicism and grace, her self-discipline and desire to show the world respect by presenting herself with dignity.”

Noonan, a conservative who's been critical of Trump in the past, said half the president’s tweets show “utter weakness,” as his attacks on news organizations and members of his own party are all “whimpering accusation and finger-pointing.” She said Trump’s “public brutalizing of Attorney General Jeff Sessions isn’t strong, cool and deadly” but “limp, lame and blubbery.”

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http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/344292-peggy-noonan-weak-and-sniveling-trump-is-not-as-strong-as-his

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Peggy Noonan: 'Weak and sniveling' Trump is not as strong as his wife (Original Post) DonViejo Jul 2017 OP
He always looks like a carnival act and then starts whining. n/t RKP5637 Jul 2017 #1
good descriptor nt bobGandolf Jul 2017 #14
A thing of beauty The Blue Flower Jul 2017 #2
lol...Mika read it TWICE! She closed the show by reading it again! PearliePoo2 Jul 2017 #6
Peggy traded her usual drink for a cup of coffee. Eyeball_Kid Jul 2017 #3
The Republicans never discuss how good their health care bill is. Ligyron Jul 2017 #4
Noonan is an idiot. stopbush Jul 2017 #5
What a load of crap . lunasun Jul 2017 #7
I know, right? cwydro Jul 2017 #8
It made me cringe loyalsister Jul 2017 #9
I would call it misanthropic myself but yes the misogyny is clearly in sight . The stereo typing lunasun Jul 2017 #12
She doesn't believe that drivel. She's hitting him where it will hurt. Tatiana Jul 2017 #11
'Limp' Bwahahahahahaaaa spanone Jul 2017 #10
How is her cyber bullying thing going? RainCaster Jul 2017 #13
I read the WSJ column Doug the Dem Jul 2017 #15

The Blue Flower

(5,442 posts)
2. A thing of beauty
Fri Jul 28, 2017, 10:23 AM
Jul 2017

After Mika read it this morning, Donny Deutsch had the best response: "hashtag limp." I'd like to combine that with JK Rowling's new title for him: King Frog @ #limp.

PearliePoo2

(7,768 posts)
6. lol...Mika read it TWICE! She closed the show by reading it again!
Fri Jul 28, 2017, 10:42 AM
Jul 2017

Read slowly, with emphasis, letting each word sink in. Yep, Donnie called him impotent and then said, "There's the word, "limp"!
Eugene Robinson (WaPo) listening to Mika reading, was cracking up laughing and said, "Peggy's BRINGING it!"

This has GOT to leave a mark! An impotent, limp dick!
"Failure Friday"

Ligyron

(7,626 posts)
4. The Republicans never discuss how good their health care bill is.
Fri Jul 28, 2017, 10:32 AM
Jul 2017

Trump actually said that...

No, of course they don't. They do their best to hide it - and with good reason.

Our President is officially an idiot.

lunasun

(21,646 posts)
7. What a load of crap .
Fri Jul 28, 2017, 11:40 AM
Jul 2017

It's not that he is inexperienced or crude
it's that he is weak and whiny and reminds men of thier first wife ???

His tweets are weak, they are shrill not masculine ?
Trump is isn't cool and deadly in his tweet attacks ?

Must be a jaundiced female republican perspective ?
 

cwydro

(51,308 posts)
8. I know, right?
Fri Jul 28, 2017, 11:44 AM
Jul 2017

I despise that orange ass, but insulting him by comparing him to a woman?

And posters here cheering that on, just as they have with the gay slurs. Smh.

loyalsister

(13,390 posts)
9. It made me cringe
Fri Jul 28, 2017, 12:12 PM
Jul 2017

The idea of Trump being insulted makes me smile. But exploiting misogyny is always offensive to me- and much moreso coming from a woman.

lunasun

(21,646 posts)
12. I would call it misanthropic myself but yes the misogyny is clearly in sight . The stereo typing
Fri Jul 28, 2017, 12:28 PM
Jul 2017

of what makes masculinity isn't any better . Must be a republican woman

Tatiana

(14,167 posts)
11. She doesn't believe that drivel. She's hitting him where it will hurt.
Fri Jul 28, 2017, 12:16 PM
Jul 2017

The thing he brags about the most is his masculine "prowess." She's deliberately needling him by attacking an aspect of his image he values the most.

 

Doug the Dem

(1,297 posts)
15. I read the WSJ column
Sat Jul 29, 2017, 09:58 AM
Jul 2017

Ho-Leeeeeeeee shit, she eviscerates him, directly impugning his manhood several times. I'm not a fan of Noonan, but she was PERFECT in this slicing and dicing of The Pumpkin!

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