President Trump: 'I Don't Think I'm a Bully'

[DonViejo]

Olivia Messer
Reporter

Published 07.05.19 11:58AM ET

President Trump on Friday defended himself after former Vice President Joe Biden called him a “bully.” “I don’t think I’m a bully,” said Trump. “I just don’t like being taken advantage of by other countries, by pharmaceutical companies, by all of the people that have taken advantage of this country.” Trump went on to say his administration is straightening out what he calls “the Obama-Biden mess.” In an interview with CNN’s Chris Cuomo that aired Friday morning, Biden said Trump is “the bully that I knew my whole life.” Biden added: “He’s the bully that I’ve always stood up to. He’s the bully that used to make fun when I was a kid that I stutter, and I’d smack him in the mouth.” During his Friday gaggle on the White House lawn, Trump also mentioned the alleged emergency this week that led Vice President Mike Pence to cancel his New Hampshire trip at the last minute, saying the public will find out what happened in “a week or two” and that there was a “problem up there.”

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[CatMor]

1. He is the one guilty of taking advantage of this country ..

while he's on another vacation using Air Force One on our dime. His whole grifter family is taking advantage of our country.

[handmade34]

2. wtf

he doesn't even make sense

[Skya Rhen]

3. 0.45 is afraid of Joe - Who me? I'm not a bully. The bully you are looking for is over there...

[TeamPooka]

4. in a week or two means never

[Chemisse]

8. Just a feeble attempt to distract. n/t

[tymorial]

5. Funny how most bullies dont accept that they are bullies.

[WePurrsevere]

6. IME.... bullies rarely do. Narcissistic bullies like you never do. nt

[marylandblue]

7. Hey, Biden got under his skin. Keep it up Joe.

[Initech]

9. Have you read your tweets, sir?

Classic bully denial.

[Honeycombe8]

10. Interesting. He ignores Harris' comment that he's a predator, but goes to town on Biden's "bully"?

I wonder if that means he wants Biden to be the opposition candidate? Or that his plan of attack on Harris is to be done by others....the birther way.

[Buzz cook]

11. Sadly he's really bad at it.

If you notice he keeps recycling his taunts and they end up being boringly similar. If he were on a school yard the skinny kid in glasses would be yawning.

Poor Donny, born without a soul.

[Laffy Kat]

12. So? He probably doesn't think he's an asshole, either.

[Saviolo]

13. "I don't like being taken advantage of by pharmaceutical companies!"

Listen, I have a very serious Adderal problem, you know *sniff* Very serious, some people are saying it's the best, the greatest Adderal problem of all time *sniff* and listen, I don't like being taken advantage of when I need to buy *sniff* prescription drugs to crush up and rail like a coke addict, you know? *sniff* Those coke addicts through, they're the worst, they're just such a drain on America's amazing, beautiful health care system *sniff* we have the best health care system in the world, because it's American and then Obamacare came and ruined it all *sniff* and I just want to make sure that people can get their Adderal, you know? People are saying, many people are calling me and saying *sniff* Mr. President, you're doing a great job, because I can't afford my Adderal, and you're going to fix all of that. *sniff* I get calls every day about it.

... what was that? Huh? AIDS drugs? Insulin? *sniff* Those are just for losers.

[Sneederbunk]

14. Just an exaggerated jerk perhaps?

[Cha]

20. He's a bully.

[TheCowsCameHome]

15. No, you're bull

shit. And tons of it.

[UniteFightBack]

16. Gee Whiz why is rump talking about him being a bully?

We have to get this muthafucka down and then we need to kick him.

Chalk that up to my toxic femininity.

[thegoose]

17. No, you're a fucking worthless asshole

[NastyRiffraff]

18. He should have stopped that sentence

after the word "think."

[3catwoman3]

19. You beat me to it.

“I don’t think” is exactly right.

He reacts protectively - kind of like an amoeba.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

21. Aw da po ting

[Generic Brad]

22. Of course he doesn't think he's a bully

That’s because he doesn’t think.

[Gothmog]

23. Joe Biden's childhood struggle with a stutter: How he overcame it and how it shaped him

Last edited Mon Sep 16, 2019, 07:28 PM - Edit history (1)

Joe is very well equipped to take on trump the bully

Link to tweet

Valerie Biden Owens, the former vice president’s younger sister, says that one lasting impact of his childhood stutter is that it has given him more empathy and compassion for others’ trials, and it uniquely equips him to handle Trump’s taunts.

“Trump is a bully, and Joe has been standing up to bullies his entire life,” Owens said in an interview. “Joe’s stuttering, I think, is one of the principal reasons — a major, major, major reason — that he is the good and compassionate and kind man that he is.”

About 3 million Americans suffer from the speech impediment of stuttering, marked by involuntary repetition of sounds, syllables or words. According to the National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders, most children outgrow their stutter, but for 25% of them, stuttering is a lifelong challenge.

Biden has overcome the serious stutter of his youth, but remnants of it resurface on occasions such as when he is very tired, he said in a 2016 speech. Experts on stuttering who follow him closely say they have noticed it on several occasions during the campaign, such as an interview on “The View” when he addressed complaints about his tendency to touch and hug women while campaigning, and an April speech in Pittsburgh launching his campaign, when he struggled with words.