No longer any defense for Trump’s tweets
I watched CNN the other night, and one of the female commentators was having an Etna-level meltdown about a compliment President Trump gave to an Irish reporter with a name that sounds like something Lawrence Welk would have advertised on his program. (“Take three tablespoons of Catriona before each meal and you won’t have regularity problems ever again!”) I was amazed that someone could get so upset about a compliment that was, in and of itself, so innocuous that I’m surprised it was even noticed by the target. “Nice smile” is up there with, “Well, she has a GREAT personality.”
So I posted my disgust as a female with other, uber-sensitive females on Facebook, and got a lot of people agreeing with me. I expect that, because my FB friends are generally smart and gifted with an abundance of common sense. Tell a woman she has a nice smile, OK. Hold the door open for a woman, very sweet. Send her flowers at work? A sign of good breeding (and not, as one Facebook friend said he’d been told by a woman, an apology from an abusive spouse).
The days of the smelling salts are over, girls. We need to grow up, grow a pair (which in this day of gender fluidity is not exactly a metaphor any longer) and realize that sometimes, saying you have a “nice smile” is just a goofy compliment. I was proud of that post.
And I went to bed with a nice smile on my face.
Then, I woke up and saw what the president had tweeted a few hours later in response to a cable news program that apparently doesn’t have kind words for him. MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” is a program that I usually watch because even though I rarely share the political positions of its hosts (liberal Mika and pretendconservative Joe) I think the conversations are entertaining. I also like the fact that they generally use big words when making points.
Trump, on the other hand, doesn’t like the show because it regularly criticizes him. Thursday morning, he had enough. From high on Mt. Olympus, before anyone could get to him and break his fingers, the chief executive tweeted about how Mika had been a guest at Mar-A-Lago in January and her face was “bleeding from a facelift.”
And I realized that it was no longer of any use to write something vaguely supportive of this president because he is suicidal, ever teetering on the ledge of his own insults and ready to jump into the void.
To have the head of the free world using his 140 characters to make fun of a woman who may or may not have had some facial reconstruction done (hey, aging ain’t fun) is beyond mere embarrassment. It’s sick.
Yes, sick. I’m not a delicate flower (no pun intended) and I have been known to use a lot of fourletter words sprinkled through my conversations. I have also been called a lot of things that, if they’d been spelled correctly, would have truly hurt my feelings. I’ve given as good as I’ve gotten, and I’m not the person who has any right to get up here and talk about civility. That ship sailed a while ago, and I traded my ticket in for a new blow dryer and a bunch of “I’m Not With Her” buttons.
But no one can defend this latest episode of “Trump Behaving Badly.” Anyone who tries is a brainwashed zombie lurching ever further into the abyss of, “Well, he’s not a Democrat!”
That’s really not enough anymore. Yes, the liberals are brainwashed themselves into attacking the man over every little thing, including the way he breathes. They’re probably annoyed that he actually does breathe.
And that still doesn’t make it OK for those of us who did not vote for Hillary and who do not like Nancy and who think that Elizabeth is as obnoxious as that bespectacled girl in the front row who tattled on the others in the class (phew, deep breath) to accept the fact that our president is a drunken frat boy.
And that’s an insult drunken frat boys. to
Really, I’m getting tired of defending some innocuous comment that enflames the tender Princesses on their Matresses, the ones who always feel the pea, to only have Trump turn around and make me look like a fool for trying to womansplain him to the masses.
Suggesting that Mika had a facelift is bad. Suggesting that she was bleeding is worse.
Next time he ticks off some overwrought chick on CNN, he’s on his own.