Or so Maureen Dowd seems to think. Trump was very low energy for his speech last Thursday, and people noticed. The automatic reply is “Well, he’s 80”. There could be more than that. He seemed low-energy on July 4. There was one point during the fireworks when the cameraman cut to a shot of Trump and Melania, and Trump was asleep. There is no way to guess how he managed to sleep with all those fireworks going off. But as Ms. Dowd is going to show us, well, you’ll be entertained. With respect to Raw Story:
President Donald Trump’s public address Thursday night revealed a problem that not even a warehouse of testosterone earmarked for the military can solve, a New York Times columnist quipped Saturday. Maureen Dowd argued in her scathing takedown of his “batty stew of whiny complaints” that Trump had little or no effect on those whose anger he meant to arouse — and the problem was the one his Defense secretary claims plagues the military. “Trump seemed very low-T,” wrote Dowd. “I’m surprised that Pete Hegseth…didn’t rush over to shoot up the flaccid 80-year-old commander in chief with the elixir of manhood needed, as he put it, to give America ‘the leading edge of lethality.'”
Hegseth thinks he’s the one who knows best. No wonder Trump likes him. We would rather Hegseth get put back in the “naughty” seat for a while. He has no idea how to run a war, and you can bet that he didn’t ask any of those in the military with actual *experience* in this sort of thing for information. There were a lot of *facepalms*or *headdesks* coming from the military personnel who had to work with him. I hope that meme is understandable.
But we were talking about Trump. His low-energy speech must have been boring as all hell because he probably wandered a lot more and tied two things together that don’t belong together and are a complete non sequitur. He’s good at that. Rambling and whining and sharks and batteries and Hannibal Lecter and oh, my! Then he was doing this at around ¼ energy, and you could watch grass grow.
As proof of Trump’s “manhood” problem, Dowd ticked off the list of usual suspects who should have responded to Trump’s rallying cry with outrage. First came Trump’s political party. “There was barely a peep from Republicans on Capitol Hill about the speech,” she wrote. “No organized effort to polish his tirade. You could almost hear the fervent wish of Republican lawmakers watching the president: Please, Donald, move on!”
Then there were the television networks Trump called out during his speech: “He seemed impotent, raving about nonsense, threatening to punish ABC and NBC for not taking his weird rant live,” Dowd wrote. “He struggled to wield his superpower: creating a fake alternate universe for his supporters.” And then, Dowd highlighted the surprising response from the conservative network that oftentimes echoes his claims — but not on Thursday night.
That’s super, super interesting about the Republicans. How many of them were even there? One could possibly expect Speaker Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune. But how many of the *other* Republicans were there? Anyone with sense would have given up a seat for their nice, comfortable home and watched it on tv. It requires a whole lot less energy with the bonus of not having to go out in the heat. Me? Doing everything possible to avoid it. I’ll never make a good political writer because I avoid Trump’s voice. Oh well, I enjoy what I do here. Hopefully it’s at least decent, even if no one reads it.
“Even Fox News acted more skittish than sycophantish for a change, not wanting to relive its $787.5 million debacle as part of its settlement with Dominion Voting Systems after claiming its machines switched votes from Trump to Joe Biden,” wrote Dowd. “The next morning, Mediaite reported, ‘Fox & Friends’ did not mention the address once in its three-hour show.” Dowd quipped that if Trump wants to continue his campaign against U.S. elections, he may need a chemical boost to get “high-T.” There’s just one problem, she concluded: “Can that hormone be prescribed to babies?
‘Nuff said.
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