6/3/19: The president, the First Lady, and all the Trump children you can stuff on Air Force One, plus a week’s supply of hair gel for Eric and Don Jr., jet off to London.
Don't forget the hair gel.
What possible mischief can occur over the
Atlantic? There aren’t any Russians aboard are there?
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American cities of a comparable size have far higher murder
rates.
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President Twitter Thumbs decides to insult someone, just to keep in practice. How about some scuzzy dictator? Nope. Trump would rather insult the Mayor of London, who he has insulted before. (See: 5/18/18.)
This requires a pair of childish tweets:
.@SadiqKhan, who by all accounts has done a terrible job as Mayor of London,
has been foolishly “nasty” to the visiting President of the United States, by
far the most important ally of the United Kingdom. He is a stone cold loser who
should focus on crime in London, not me......
....Kahn reminds me very much of our very dumb and incompetent Mayor of NYC, de
Blasio, who has also done a terrible job - only half his height. In any event,
I look forward to being a great friend to the United Kingdom, and am looking
very much forward to my visit. Landing now!
The stupidity of these tweets is hard to overstate. They
serve as a window on the president’s id and the twisted mess it is. First, you
have the juvenile insults from a 72-year-old man-boy: “nasty,” “stone cold
loser.” Second, you have the bully’s ploy: mocking a shorter man’s stature.
Third, you have a U.S. president focusing on crime in London, which is none of
his business. Crime is indeed up in London and Trump likes to focus on knife
attacks, proving, in his mind, that gun control in the U.S. wouldn’t do any
good because only a good guy with a knife can stop a bad guy with a knife. Only
a good guy with a gardening rake, crowbar, trowel, etc.
As we have noted before, in 2018, including a rash of stabbings, London had roughly 140 homicides.
The Mayor of London might retort, if he wanted to descend to the same imbecilic level, that the President of the United States should worry about crime in his backyard and be sure not to grab the queen “you know where.” He might note that American cities of a comparable size have far higher murder rates. Say: Houston (an estimated 335 murders in 2018) or Chicago (more than 530 murders).
You could also argue that the president might focus on crime problems across the USA. In 2017, the last year for which we have statistics, the U.S., with a population of 327 million, had 17,284 murders.
By comparison, England and Wales (56 million population) had 709. England and Wales had thirteen murders per million population.
We had 53 per million, making Trump a “stone cold loser” when
it comes to addressing the problem.
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“You could’ve nailed her.”
FINALLY, THE USE of “nasty” in the tweet above is interesting. Just the day before, Trump had to deny he had called Megan Markle, the American actress, now Prince Harry’s wife, “nasty.”
Except he did.
We know it’s one of his go-to insults. If we search his Twitter feed, we find that during the 2016 primaries he called Ted Cruz “a nasty guy.” “Dopey Charles Krauthammer is still nasty,” he said. Lindsey Graham and Mitt Romney were “nasty, angry, jealous failures.” Trump claimed he gave Barbara Res “a top N.Y. construction job, when that was unheard of, and now she is nasty.”
Most famously, during one presidential debate he referred to Mrs. Clinton as “a nasty woman.”
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FOR CONTEXT, in 2017, The Telegraph, a British newspaper, put together a list of offensive comments Trump had made about women. So, as far as Megan Markle goes, it could have been worse.
You had, for example, Trump’s comment on Howard Stern’s show in 1997, regarding the Princess of Wales, recently deceased. “Why do people think it’s egotistical of you to say you could’ve gotten with Lady Di?” Stern asked the mogul. “You could’ve gotten her, right? You could’ve nailed her.”
“I think I could have,” Trump agreed with a leer.
R.I.P. Lady Di.
He revisited the idea in another interview with Stern in 2000. This time, he ranked women he’d like to sleep with. The Telegraph provided the list, “should you be interested.”
Melania Knauss (then his girlfriend)
Ivana Trump
Princess Diana
Michelle Pfeiffer
Cameron Diaz
Julia Roberts
Cindy Crawford
Mariah Carey
Gwyneth Paltrow
Diane Sawyer
No telling how many of those women had to stifle a vomit reflex if they heard they made his Top Ten.
(I’m guessing nine. Possibly: ten.)
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