Trump criticizes media for treating Powell 'beautifully' in death

[Dial H For Hero]

Source: The Hill

Former President Donald Trump lambasted the media on Tuesday for what he said was too favorable coverage of former Secretary of State Colin Powell after his death on Monday.

"Wonderful to see Colin Powell, who made big mistakes on Iraq and famously, so-called weapons of mass destruction, be treated in death so beautifully by the Fake News Media. Hope that happens to me someday," Trump said in a statement.

Trump referred to Powell as "a classic RINO" referring to the acronym "Republican in name only."

"He made plenty of mistakes, but anyway, may he rest in peace!" Trump added.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/news/577355-trump-criticizes-media-for-treating-powell-beautifully-in-death

[BlueStater]

1. COVID failed us all by not killing this scumbag.

[dixiechiken1]

3. No shit to that.

[onecaliberal]

10. Sadly, yes.

[SouthernDem4ever]

70. The angel of death needs new glasses

she missed trump's house. ( put in terms the evangelicals can understand )

[C_U_L8R]

2. He never fails to say something shitty

What a fucking trump.

[former9thward]

38. Did you read all the posts and threads on DU saying exactly the same thing?

[SunSeeker]

48. Who here made Powell's death coverage about them and said they wanted to be treated like that?

[former9thward]

62. I don't know.

Who here is famous enough? I would say no one. So your statement is irrelevant to the content of the posts.

[SunSeeker]

67. But that is what distinguishes what Trump said. So, nobody here has repeated Trump "exactly."

It is Trump making this about him that is the most revolting. He is a psychopath.

[TheProle]

66. Indeed. It must be surprising

for some here to find grave-pissing common ground with that bloated idiot.

[Chipper Chat]

4. Colossal Prick.

May he rot in hell for his (fill in the blank here)

[MurrayDelph]

44. Not

according to Stormy.

[SunSeeker]

57. ...

[Wingus Dingus]

5. Why am I still hearing shit from this vulgar man's hamberder chute.

[GusBob]

6. Fascinating

"hope that happens to me someday"

Of course everything has to be about him, but what exactly is he saying? That he himself has made big mistakes?

This whole quote with the "wonderful", "famously" , "so-called" and "beautifully" is basic TFG mental pathology.

But he is just attacking CP 'cuz he's black, and dead and cant fight back is the cowardly truth

[BeyondGeography]

17. Deep contempt for his fans showing through yet again

He’s a loser who will never be embraced by the elites whose approval he not-so-secretly craves. His unfiltered rage at their rejection is where his power comes from. But he wouldn’t spend five minutes with “his” crowd if he didn’t have to, so he’s miserable.

[OAITW r.2.0]

33. That is what jumped out for me.

The insults against Powell aren't all that surprising, given the person who is conveying the message.....but that phrase "hope that happens to me someday" conveys some illuminating words into TFG's psyche and maybe an acknowledgement of guilt that his legacy was fully destroyed by his own words and deeds.

[Walleye]

7. OK Republicans, just how many of your sacred values and revered heroes does he have to shit on?

[onecaliberal]

12. They have zero values. They are all the same vile prick that he is.

[Walleye]

24. That is becoming very clear

[rurallib]

18. you would think this would cause a holy schism in the Republican cult

but apparently this guy can do whatever he wants. I am beginning to understand how Hitler rose to power.

[OAITW r.2.0]

35. A Party that can't even muster a platform to run on - that explains a lot

about the people who run this operation/franchise.

They really aren't an organized political entity based on inviolable values....They operate more as an organized crime party where lying/cheating/stealing and holding power, at all costs, are their only guiding principles.

[rurallib]

45. well said

[Ocelot II]

8. The only reason His Lardship is dragging Powell has nothing to do

with Iraq/WMDs and everything to do with the fact that Powell supported Obama and later Biden, and called TFG a "national disgrace" and an "international pariah."

[radical noodle]

13. Bingo... n/t

[rurallib]

19. Plus the Bushes are still hated by the cult

[Cha]

52. That's what I was thinking..

Powell didn't endorse trump and laid a truth bomb on him.

[Autumn]

9. Live liar trashing a dead liar.

Doesn't even make my list of no fucks to give. Fuck em both. Yeah, I know Powel owned it. Tell it to the dead.

[riversedge]

11. " Hope that happens to me someday," Trump said in a statement. " ALWAYS ABOUT HIMSELF

--YUP.

[IcyPeas]

61. hope it happens sometimes soon.

[NH Ethylene]

14. Wait til he 'sees' how we treat HIM in death!

If he thinks a reckoning of all bad deeds is appropriate, then okay, coming right up! (Coming up anyway, but it's so lovely to get his blessing).

[rurallib]

20. I expect the media to treat him with kid gloves when he dies

after all, the media is owned by the 1%

[BlueStater]

30. He better not be honored with a state funeral attended by current and former world leaders.

He’s an American traitor and a fucking disgrace. Toss his carcass in an unmarked grave.

[jmowreader]

41. Well...he WAS president, unfortunately

He will get a state funeral for that reason alone, but I suspect the only people who will attend will be vicious dictators, the Republican House and Senate Caucuses, and all the people he still owes money to. And that last group will attend only so they can look in the casket to ensure he's in it.

[marie999]

65. No, there are people in the Democratic Party will attend simply because he was president.

It is the right thing to do. That of course is if he doesn't die in prison.

[NH Ethylene]

69. Well if there is one it will have the smallest crowd size ever.

I would expect foreign leaders would find something else on their calendar for that day. He was thoroughly hated. If it happens while there is a Dem as president, nobody is going to get their feelings hurt if world leaders are a no-show.

[machoneman]

26. I had exactly the same thought!

Someday, he'll be buried in an unmarked grave as way too may would sh@t on his headstone. The line will be l-o-n-g!

[yardwork]

15. Typical behavior from someone with a personality disorder.

[ratchiweenie]

16. Typical Trump "His death wasn't all about ME".

[empedocles]

23. The latest from the generous and magnanimous mind/mouth of trump

[dweller]

21. " Hope that happens to me someday,"

So do I … I hope you are laying in bed one day, ravaged by several fatal diseases,
and Covid slips into your room at nite, like a bat and licks your nose …
And your beloved press maintains the adage of only saying good of the dead, and report: Donald Trump is dead … good.


✌🏻

[Champp]

22. Republicans pissing on their own dead

No honor at all among the Republicans.

No honor.

[iscooterliberally]

25. Don't ask me where Trump's head is at.

He can't sing.
He ain't pretty,
and his ass is fat.

(and if you voted for him...)

Don't ask me what I think of you.
I will not give the answer that you want me to.

Oh well....

- Just paraphrasing a song that got stuck in my head

[LetMyPeopleVote]

27. TFG knows that how the press will treat him when he goes to his final resting place

[BadGimp]

28. RE: "Hope that happens to me someday," Trump said in a statement."

A: DEAL!!!!

WE can make this happen right now, Donnie! All you need to do is Drop Dead!!

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

29. I don't want TFG to die.

I want him to suffer a stroke or some other disease which prevents him from moving or talking, so that he has to sit there immobilized, unable to feed himself, bathe himself, and be hand fed baby food. Oh, I almost forgot -- I don't want him to be able to wipe his own ass.

If that happens, I wish him a long life.

[COL Mustard]

37. If He Can't Wipe His Own Ass

I'd sure as hell hope the poor person stuck with that job gets $1M per wipe. Yuck.

[jmowreader]

42. They'll use a garden hose for that task

[SouthernDem4ever]

72. and they'll never get paid

for their work.

[msfiddlestix]

31. The psychotic derangement of this criminal mobster is profoundly limitless

There are no boundaries he will avoid crossing. Just doesn't fathom the fact that he will never ever be honored either while he draws breath or posthumously.

The sooner that piece of psychotic shit departs from this planet the better. May he forever be joined with Hitler, Stalin, Gotti, Lansky et al in their special place in history.

[Maeve]

32. Hope it happens sooner rather than later!

Nah...they won't make that mistake. Only Faux will praise Drumpf

[Gore1FL]

34. I can't say I completely disagree with Trump.

A lot of people are dead because Powell squandered his credibility to help lie us into war.

[muriel_volestrangler]

47. However, Trump supported a war in Iraq before Powell's UN speech

so he has no leg to stand on:

Now, BuzzFeed reports that Trump indicated his support for war in a radio interview with shock jock Howard Stern on Sept. 11, 2002 — a little more than six months before the war started.

Stern asked Trump directly if he supported going to war with Iraq, and Trump hesitantly responded, “Yeah, I guess so.”
...
Trump had a financial interest in opposing the war in the weeks leading up to the war. The Newark Star-Ledger, New Jersey’s largest newspaper, reported on March 12, 2003 that Trump Hotels and Casino Resorts planned “to sell $485 million in junk-grade bonds this week in an effort to avoid a cash crunch later this year.” The uncertainty of war complicated Trump’s bond sale.
...
Trump expressed concerns about the cost of the war soon after it started. If Trump did support the war, he turned on it quickly. As the timeline below shows, Trump in July said that he wished the money being spent in Iraq could be spent in New York City. By November, he talked about the “tremendous cost” of the war and the “very, very unpleasant surprises in Iraq.”

https://www.factcheck.org/2016/02/donald-trump-and-the-iraq-war/

So for him, the only problem was the cost. Especially personal.

[Ocelot II]

49. Be that as it may, TFG's comments about Powell were not motivated by

what Powell did or didn't do wrt Iraq. TFG couldn't care less about Iraq or Powell's or anybody else's foreign policy mistakes; he cares only about their opinion of him. And Powell was extremely, even blisteringly critical of TFG. That's all that matters to him and it's why he issued his remarks trashing Powell, just pretending TFG cared about Iraq, which he didn't.

[COL Mustard]

36. Yes, Mr. 45, I Hope You Get Your Treatment In Death

Any day now would be just fine.

[Beastly Boy]

39. "Hope that happens to me someday,"

I am sure it will.

Despite being a traitor and a scumbag, the country, nay, the whole world, will celebrate the occasion with utmost joy.

[OAITW r.2.0]

40. Donald knows how history will remember his administration's complete failure,

the blatant racism, the self-dealing, the crimes for which he was impeached....twice. And the biggest takeaway of his Presidency will be his role in the Insurrection on 1/6/21.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

43. Look at me cried the slobfather. I want all the attention.

[llashram]

46. hey donald

you've got your nerve...at least Gen. Powell, not without mistake, served his country and did not try to overthrow the democracy that is, so far, America.

[sarisataka]

50. Politics makes strange bedfellows

Very strange

[Dial H For Hero]

56. Ain't it the truth....

[rsdsharp]

51. "Hope that happens to me someday."

I’m in favor of that.

So long as it happens soon.

[peoli]

53. Powell straight face LIED TO THE ENTIRE PLANET ABOUT WMD's in Iraq

And was Instrumental in perpetuating the lie that led is into the Iraq war killing thousands of Americans and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis.

So yeah, FUCK COLIN POWELL AND FUCK THE MEDIA

[PSPS]

54. Why are you enlisting DU as trump's twitter replacement?

[sarisataka]

58. Why single out one poster?

I never had Twitter but since he's been banned I read more about what he says on DU than ever.

[Javaman]

55. if the orange asshole could find a way to get all the glory from dying, without dying

he would.

so instead he makes sure he makes someone else's death all about himself.

psychopath/narcissist.

[twodogsbarking]

59. Hard to imagine the things he knew or witnessed.

RIP

[hamsterjill]

60. There's class.

And then there’s just plain trash.

[truthisfreedom]

63. RINO? Powell renounced his repuke status

He didn’t identify as republican. I believe he was independent.

[truthisfreedom]

64. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2021/10/18/us/colin-powell-gop.amp.html

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2021/10/18/us/colin-powell-gop.amp.html

[JohnnyRingo]

68. "May he rest in peace..."

"...after I kick some fucking dirt in his face".

[Ilsa]

71. The media's eulogy of trump can't come soon enough. nt

[speaktruthtopower]

73. I read "war criminal" trending on twitter n/m

[Xolodno]

74. Says the man who...

...says we screwed up by not raping and pillaging Iraq of its resources and leaving nothing for their people.