Is there some wear and tear showing on the Right? Or is the stress really starting to get to Trump?
Tough to tell, but it is not every day where Trump chastises a couple of true Trump-apologists in the open Twitterverse, while unwittingly coming out in favor of stringent gun control.
It all begins with an unfortunate, but relatively mild, incident involving CNN’s Chris Cuomo. Cuomo was eating dinner with his family when a man who, for the purposes of this article we will call “a Trumper,” approached Cuomo.
The incident, captured on video found below, centers around Cuomo’s response to being called “Fredo,” which, according to Chris Cuomo, is being likened to the hapless character from “The Godfather” movies. “It’s like the n-word for us,” he claims in the footage.
In the video, Chris Cuomo was having none of it, and told the verbal assailant that he would “fucking ruin your shit.”
In other words, Chris Cuomo stood up for himself, rightly or wrongly. But no one was shot dead, no one wrote a manifesto, everyone could have moved on.
But some characters on the Right either sincerely wanted to get Cuomo’s back, or wanted to demonstrate a little anger themselves, having undergone similar taunts from liberal activists. Whatever their motivation, it actually doesn’t matter. Hannity issued the original Tweet, which Lewandowski supported and followed up:
Too many of us have seen this happen when we are out with out famIiies. If this continues someone is going to get hurt. Have some respect. @ChrisCuomo has every right to defend himself and his family. https://t.co/UD6g3hy9Mo
— Corey R. Lewandowski (@CLewandowski_) August 13, 2019
For what it’s worth? I am fine with both Tweets, I am fine with Cuomo – who later admitted he regretted losing his cool – acting the way he did, and I am fine with two horrible people like Hannity and Lewandowski dipping their tepid toes into reality and, momentarily supporting Cuomo while claiming victimhood themselves.
Fine, if Hannity gets attacked while out with his family, and he says he’ll fuck some shit up, I don’t care. I am for activism, but I think there are better times and places than a dinner with kids who have no idea what one is talking about.
Want to know who does have a problem with Hannity and Lewandowski’s Tweets, and Cuomo’s response? Well, you know already, you clicked here. But this is a little stronger than you thought: (I use artistic license to put these in reverse order).
It always happens! When a Conservative does even a fraction of what Chris Cuomo did with his lunatic ranting, raving, & cursing, they get destroyed by the Fake News. But when a Liberal Democrat like Chris Cuomo does it, Republicans immediately come to his defense. We never learn!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 13, 2019
Wow, you of all people being offended by “cursing,” and then whining like the little snowflake you are? That’s really piling on what you originally said, when you actually included the video:
I thought Chris was Fredo also. The truth hurts. Totally lost it! Low ratings @CNN https://t.co/yBpGjt4N1T
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 13, 2019
Holy Shit! What is your job again?
“Low Ratings”? You care about someone’s ratings? Have you seen Kim Jung Un’s?
Please, keep digging, as you did just a bit later:
Would Chris Cuomo be given a Red Flag for his recent rant? Filthy language and a total loss of control. He shouldn’t be allowed to have any weapon. He’s nuts!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 13, 2019
Yes!! Anyone in America who has ever sworn about something akin to “fucking someone’s shit up” is absolutely too nutty to have any weapon, we agree!! That ought to sweep up about 99% of the weapons infesting our streets, leaving only a few Southern Baptist grandmothers in possession of their old .22 squirrel gun.
Donald Trump favors gun control!
Alright, I have had enough fun with that. Let us now put this into perspective. A banal verbal attack on a celebrity out eating dinner occurred. Somehow, our “president” had sufficient time to set aside “running the country” to note this unbelievably insignificant stuff. That same president then demonstrates just how little thought goes through his brain when Tweeting as he comes out in favor of stronger gun control than that found in Canada. Talk about a background check!!
And all that was before Trump lashed out at his most loyal servants, Hannity and Lewandowski, for doing nothing more than stating it is okay to rebut a verbal attack over dinner.
It is near impossible, I know, to read tea leaves or discern meaning in all this. And maybe I shouldn’t. But, one is awfully tempted to believe that perhaps the stress really is getting to Trump, perhaps he is decompensating? Yes, yes, “from what?” you ask. But, the point remains, he could be slipping further.
I do not know. I know it is not every day that Trump publicly goes after Hannity and Lewandowski on an issue that, really, couldn’t possibly matter less. We know what matters, and Trump blew those, too.
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Peace, y’all.
Jason
I keep hoping something will get to him.
My mother lives in hope of heart attack or stroke.
Well, I don’t want to get ejected from this place. I will just say that every morning I wake up wishing for two things, and they concern Trump, and Mitch McConnell.
You may yet get your wish on both counts, Cmar.
Someday, nothing lasts forever.
ROACHES DO.
Roaches as a species do. Individual roaches definitely don’t.
And six pallbearers?
The orange Trump Turd has a lot of balls calling Chris Cuomo out for “filthy language” and “total loss of control”. I would call Trump slime but that would be an insult to slime!
It really does demonstrate a total disregard for “reality” from him. As someone who regularly uses “filthy language” (I owe it to my former status in college hockey), I will never call out someone else on it.
Until Trump apologize to women for grabbing, and the marginalized for his racism/xenophobia, he has no leg to stand upon.
I tell my daughter: “Most language is neutral. You can use some words in a funny way, or you can use them to hurt someone, one is okay, one isn’t. Some words are never okay, “n—,” “fagg..” things like that bc they always hurt.
SHE seems to get it. Don’t know why he can’t.
If you buy into the malignant narcissism interpretation of Trump’s behavior, there’s no “maybe” about him decompensating. Let’s be real here…claims of him having a master plan or Putin having one for him aside, he’s been doing some koo-koo stuff lately, even for him. They’re the kind of moves I usually see on people see on people frightened beyond their ability to think.
Well this is interesting, on the right hand side of this web page there is a “From the Web” section which has a link to…”Two Snakes Devour Each Other in Terrifying Video.” After just reading the above article, I have to wonder….is this section link coincidence, karma or coming previews of the administration? Some days the sidebars are worth the reading.
Awesome. Well done.
I decided not to click on the link. Enough snakes to deal with at home without watching some video of more snakes. But that was pretty odd timing on the “From the Web” section. Lol!
I haven’t watched it either, but I’ve seen it on a LOT of internet pages. Major clickbait! And don’t forget to click all the clickbait here at Poitizoom – it supports the site!
Remember when a president wearing a tan suit was ‘unpresidential’ ?