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Trump, the low class POS

Published by digby on August 26, 2018

Trump, the low class POS

by digby

McCain is gone. RIP

I wrote this earlier in the day before I heard about it, scheduled for tomorrow. It stands, despite Trump smarmy, insincere bullshit:

In July 2015, after then-candidate Trump rallied an estimated 15,000 in Phoenix and claimed to represent a “silent majority,” McCain said Trump had “fired up the crazies” in his state. The battle was on.

By the end of that month, Trump had disparaged McCain’s Vietnam War service, saying McCain was “not a war hero” despite spending more than five years as a POW and enduring torture.

“He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured,” Trump said during a forum in Ames, Iowa.

Trump refused to apologize at the time, despite criticism from nearly every corner, and has never retracted the statement. He has occasionally told people that he does not regret the comment.

“The reality is that John McCain the politician has made America less safe, sent our brave soldiers into wrongheaded foreign adventures, covered up for President Obama with the VA scandal and has spent most of his time in the Senate pushing amnesty,” Trump wrote in an op-ed for USA Today that month. “He would rather protect the Iraqi border than Arizona’s.”

McCain did eventually endorse Trump in 2016, then withdrew his support weeks before the election after release of an “Access Hollywood” tape where Trump is recorded bragging about groping women.

Trump’s immediate and angry response: “The very foul mouthed Sen. John McCain begged for my support during his primary (I gave, he won), then dropped me over locker room remarks!”

[…]
He repeatedly told advisers that McCain should step down from the seat and let the Republican governor appoint another senator. Trump has also told White House aides that his supporters are not big fans of McCain and boasted that he became president while McCain did not.

Trump’s retelling of the health-care vote, usually without mentioning McCain by name, has continued throughout the senator’s more than year-long treatment for brain cancer. The 81-year-old’s family said Friday that he is discontinuing treatment.

“Obamacare, we got rid of the individual mandate, which is the most unpopular aspect,” Trump said during a political speech Aug. 13 in Utica, N.Y. “I would have gotten rid of everything, but as you know one of our, one of our wonderful senators said, ‘thumbs down,’ at 2 o’clock in the morning.”

[…]
During occasional Oval Office conversations about McCain’s health or status in the Senate, Trump would usually say nothing, current and former officials said. He grew angry regularly that McCain was portrayed as the “good guy” in the news media and he as the “bad guy,” according to a former senior administration official who spoke to Trump about McCain.

Trump has fumed to friends about McCain’s role in receiving research compiled by a former British intelligence officer that alleged Russia had potentially compromising information about Trump. He has complained that McCain has criticized him over Russia and foreign policy, questioning his expertise and noting that he won the presidency and McCain did not.
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In accepting the Freedom Medal at the National Constitutional Center in October, McCain condemned “half-baked, spurious nationalism cooked up by people who would rather find scapegoats than solve problems,” a clear dig at Trump.

Asked about McCain’s remarks the following day, Trump said “people have to be careful, because at some point I fight back.”

“You know, I’m being very nice, I’m being very, very nice, but at some point I fight back and it won’t be pretty,” Trump said in a WMAL interview.

McCain has been giving as good as good as he got in recent months, particularly after the Helsinki debacle, which surely has Trump in a tizzy. And his blind cult followers now agree with him.

Forty-four percent of Republicans surveyed in the Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll released Wednesday hold a negative view of McCain, while only 35 percent have a positive view of him. Meanwhile, 52 percent of Democrats surveyed now see him in a positive light.

They must be so proud.

Trump hasn’t said anything recently in public and let’s hope he keeps his mouth shut because anything he says, whether it’s a smarmy insincere tribute or a disgusting insult, will be a sickening act of disrespect. I’ve never been a big McCain fan but he was good on some things, like fighting the torture regime, and he deserves to be treated with dignity for his courage and sacrifice as a POW. Any words out of this depraved imbecile’s mouth would be a desecration.

Also this cowardly piece of shit (who can’t even fire his own people or confront them in person) threatening anyone is a joke. All he can do is tweet and talk like a bully behind people’s backs. In person he’s a sniveling wimp.

This says it all:

“What’s going on?” Trump asks Omarosa. “I just saw on the news that you’re thinking about leaving? What happened?”

After Omarosa explains that Kelly told her that “you guys” had asked her to go, Trump responds “No…I, I..Nobody even told me about it.”

Hmmmmm.

“You know they run a big operation, but I didn’t know it. Goddamnit, I don’t love you leaving at all.”

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