Why Trump can't stop counterpunching

[Denzil_DC]

In between interviews with potential nominees and calls with foreign leaders, Donald Trump has found the time to attack a Manhattan magazine publisher, an Indiana union leader, the casts of "Saturday Night Live" and "Hamilton," multinationals, China, flag-burners and others who have challenged or annoyed him.

Even though he's now the president-elect and even though the stakes are so much higher, Trump has shown repeatedly that he won’t change his ways.

"In his mind, he's an outsider, he's an outer-borough brawler,” said the Rev. Al Sharpton, who has been friendly with him for decades, in an interview. "He always felt like people were looking down on him and attacking him. People don't understand that and don’t see him that way anymore, but he still sees himself like an outsider.”

After a recent TV appearance in which Sharpton described him as a Queens boy who made it on the big stage by clawing his way to the top and fighting those who took him on, the civil-rights pastor and TV star was surprised to get a call from Trump.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/trump-counterpunching-232722

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

1. Gee, why would people look down on a

crass, lying, cheating, misogynistic, homophobic, vengeful, immature, bully? Poor Donald!!

[leanforward]

2. He knows

I'll be part of the loyal opposition. He doesn't understand this country from the perspective of the ordinary people. He is acting like a street brawler. I would hope, at some point, that the GOP will back away from him.

[vinny9698]

3. The GOP are also street brawlers.

He is now the street brawler president and the GOP are his followers.

[Thor_MN]

6. They will back away after he screws things up.

They will claim that he was never a Republican and they he is the Liberal's fault.

[JudyM]

8. No question they are already working with Pence on the takeover logistics.

[oasis]

4. Like Caine Mutiny's Capt.Queeg, Trump will have a total meltdown.

And it won't be that far down the road.

[MBS]

5. yup, that's what I think, too.

[yurbud]

7. it's funny how the last couple of decades, it's the spoiled, inbred trust fund babies who think

they're the persecuted underdog and the whining publicly and having others bully your critics is being tough.