None other than Roy Cohn said about the GOP nominee back in the day, “Donald pisses ice water.” For a man like Cohn, himself compared quite often to reptiles, that was a revelatory statement. Cohn was saying two things: One, that he knew the difference between warmth and cold in a person and two, that Donald Trump had nothing of the former. Quite a statement, especially originating with the utterly ruthlessly lawyer. And since those days, it has become obvious to anyone who knows Trump that his “relationships” are transactional in nature. On that basis, it will come to no surprise to you that now Howard Stern has bitten the bullet and he’s off the Trump *friendship* roster.
Trump attacks his old friend Howard Stern. pic.twitter.com/edBISuKfcB
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) October 9, 2024
This is true. The doings of a highly neurotic, undeveloped man-child would be of little concern past the gossip pages and tabloids but for the fact that he’s still at the top of the GOP ticket. That makes him a menace and somebody to be reckoned with.
And Kamala Harris is doing just that. Her media blitz has been very successful and if you pay attention to Trump’s tone and expression these days, he’s becoming increasingly bitter. He lashed out at Whoppi Goldberg last night, in which was an uncharacteristically harsh manner even for him — implying that he was Goldberg’s employer at one point, but because of her “filthy, dirty” mouth, he would never hire her again.
Trump hates women. Trump especially hates Black women. To his mind, they’re all cleaning ladies, or should be, and the fact that some of them are judges who are atop his criminal cases, or district attorney, or his presidential opponent, simply drives Trump around the bend.
It is comical to watch. And it makes complete sense that somebody like Goldberg, known for her scathing wit, would particularly upset him. And it also makes sense that the more Kamala Harris is on television — “his” medium, don’t you see, he’s the “king” of television — it makes him crazy. Now Howard Stern has taken it one step farther and radio is another realm that Harris is reaching out to, and podcasts.
Trump has had one thing going for him, only one, but it was enough in 2016: he understands American media and how to dominate it. That’s his high and only card to play. And now along comes Harris to beat him at his own game: younger, smarter, better looking, also telegenic and charismatic, and he simply can’t stand it.
We have 25 days until Election Day. Look for them to zoom by. And already Trump’s whereabouts are unaccounted for ten. What in the world is he doing? And does even he know?
Howard should get together some of the women from trump’s extramarital affairs. Bring them to his studio and have them discuss the size/shape of trump’s genitalia and just how much staying power he has in the sack.
Not even Stern could sit through a non-stop litany of “minuscule, almost invisible” in size, “rotted potato/sick sea cucumber” in shape, and “one-Missisissippi, two-Mississip” staying power comments. (And I really doubt he would want to subject his audience to that. After the third woman said pretty much the same thing, Stern would end the segment just to give his audience some form of brain bleach.)
trump needs to confiscate his wife’s jacket, cut the back out of it, and have it stitched to his ample backside: I REALLY DON’T CARE, DO YOU?
Agreed that Trump’s high card is his savvy of the mainstream and rightwing media. I’d add that his hole card is his comprehension of stupidity and his resultant ability to manipulate it. He knows that his voter base is stupid and so, sadly, is the vastly powerful media he’s made his allies. He revels in controlling and exploiting both, because it makes him feel so much smarter than they are; that’s a very low bar but it’s enough to make Donald the quintessential “stable genius” he so wants to be.
I could make a better man out of a banana. Kilgore Trout,(a Vonnegut character).