Category Archives: Donald Trump

UPDATED: Republican Debate Round-Up, Houston, Texas (The Aftershocks)

Donald Trump, Elections, Healthcare, IMMIGRATION, Political Economy, Politics, Republicans

UPDATE (2/26):

2/25:

UPDATED: ‘All In’ Tartlet’s Distaste For ‘The Trump Coalition’

America, Donald Trump, Left-Liberalism And Progressivisim, Media

Just as I was starting to tune in to MSNBC’s Chris Hayes more frequently—I realize this is not saying much, but these days, MSNBC’s daytime news programming is better than Fox’s—when on came a self-important creature named Olivia Nuzzi (three minutes and 45 seconds into the clip titled “The Trump Coalition”).

This affectatious Millennial cut her journalistic teeth by going public with a salacious tell-all starring … herself, of course, as the perspicacious Democratic intern. (Please don’t make me read this girl’s diarrheic, mushy, thinking-averse, pop-politics. I do enough penance for you, my reader.)

The Nuzzi tart’s attitude to Trump’s thumping majorities was that of calculated contempt. Donald Trump addresses them, she psychologized, at the level with which they are comfortable. He connects with them on a visceral, not intellectual plain (it goes without saying that Nuzzi thinks Trump supporters are truly stupid).

Nuzzi speak: “What defines these people … ” “They” [the silly people] don’t like politicians because of the way [politicians] speak. [After all, stupid people can’t grasp wonk talk like me, Nuzzi.] “Trump talks at a lower level.” That’s what these people like about him.”

Arrogant girl.

Left and right, Trump has broad support among Americans. “Journalists” as young as Nuzzi ought to treat their subjects with dignity. The people she writes about know a thing or two Nuzzi doesn’t yet know and probably will never know.

If anything, Trump’s army is reciprocating; returning The Love. Donald Trump, unlike this little Lena Dunham of journalism, truly loves the Common American.

For his part, Chris Hayes, at least, thanked his pro-Trump interviewees who seemed hip to his bias, but were ever so gracious. What I heard from them was: “I like businessmen,” “I like bold,” he might fix things in D.C., “I voted for Obama twice.”

Wow, do Hayes and his hussy guest have a handle on this complex and oddly marvelous uprising (not)!

UPDATE 2/25:

UPDATE II: If Allowed, The Rubio Snake Will Charm Trump Into Defeat (Giuliani?)

Donald Trump, Elections, Neoconservatism

The establishment might just get its way and see Donald Trump defeated by a nobody like Barack Obama (who was invented as a presidential candidate by Queen of kitsch Oprah). If Trump continues to hammer at the wrong man, the talented Ted Cruz, and ignore the Marco Rubio menace; the front-runner could come short.

CHRIS WALLACE, FOX NEWS ANCHOR: All right. Let’s talk about Marco Rubio and his fitness to be president.

TRUMP: Well, he’s a talented guy. He’s a good guy. I like him. We’re going to have to see what happens.

You know, I start off liking everybody. Then, all of a sudden, they become mortal enemies. So, we’ll see what happens. But he’s been very respectful, very nice. I hope to beat him.

Neoconservative Sen. Marco Rubio was once the deserving object of Sen. Rand Paul’s scorn. Now that Paul and Chris Christie are gone; this charming empty suit seems poised to slither into Donald Trump’s good graces. Trump appears to refrain from attacking individuals if they’re nice to him. This would suggest that so long as they’re nice to him; anyone could become Trump’s running mate or cabinet member.

You’re supposed to deconstruct an opponent’s positions and like or dislike only those.

The foreign policy forays of Rubio—and of John Kasich; I can’t tell with Cruz—will be of a piece with those of Genghis Bush.

Where Trump truly loses credibility to me in is in the way he’s treating Cruz. Trump and Rubio say Cruz is a liar and a bit loopy. This is not immediately obvious from the “evidence” they muster. Cruz’s resume belies it.

UPDATE I (2/22): Crooked prosecutor Rudy Giuliani is Trump’s “campaign consigliere,” reports the New York Post. Is Trump showing his true colors? As I wrote, 03.04.07:

to mention Giuliani without speaking of how he Nifonged Michael Milken is to fail as a libertarian, an individualist, or as an individual who cares for liberty and justice. (I like the verb I’ve just coined: Nifonged.)

Read “American Prosecutors Deserve Count Of Monte Cristo.”

UPDATE II (2/24):

Preach It: ‘People That Are Smart Know The War In Iraq Was A Disaster’

Bush, Donald Trump, Iran, Media

Pompous CHRIS WALLACE, FOX NEWS ANCHOR, imagined he’d still get the upper hand with a post-South Carolina Donald Trump, but ended up changing the subject … quite a bit.

WALLACE: To the larger point, I mean, whether it was lying or whether it was the mandate — particular now that there’s going to be more and more focus on everything you say, do you think you have to be more careful?

TRUMP: …The case of the war — the war in Iraq was a disaster. By the way, I was against it at the beginning. And Joe Scarborough can show you do that because fortunately he found a clip. But the fact that I said they a successful military operation, maybe it might have been successful as an opening operation, but I was opposed to the war. The war in Iraq was a disaster, OK? It may have been the worst decision ever made, ever made in the country. OK? That’s how bad it was.

WALLACE: But, sir, respectfully — I mean, that wasn’t the issue. The issue is whether or not we were lied into war. I don’t necessarily —

(CROSSTALK)

TRUMP: Well, right now that’s for other people to term — I don’t say yes or no. I’m not saying yes or no. I’m saying let somebody else determine. …

… Look, the war in Iraq was a disaster. The reason I won by such a large number is that while the pundits, including yourself, thought I made a mistake when I took on Bush on that issue — and I have nothing against Bush. I don’t even know the president. I never met him.

But when I took on Bush on that issue, I never felt it was a bad thing to do because people that are smart know that the war in Iraq was a disaster. And even Jeb Bush in the end admit that the war in Iraq was not a good thing.

WALLACE: New question, new subject.

MORE.

REQUIRED READING:

“RATIONALIZE WITH LIES”
“WHAT WMD?”
“AXIS OF ILLOGIC”
“BLAME BUSH, NOT THE JEWS, FOR IRAQ”
“BUSH’S 16 WORDS MISS THE BIG PICTURE”
“IRAQ LIARS & DENIERS: WE KNEW THEN WHAT WE KNOW NOW”
“Why So Many Americans Don’t Support Attacking Iraq”