How did President Trump make it off childhood's playground — without someone stomping the bully blowhard out of him?

© 2017 Peter Free

 

17 October 2017

 

 

Background

 

What follows refers to this "development":

 

 

In an impromptu press conference in the White House Rose Garden Monday, Trump claimed that Obama did not call the families of fallen service personnel.

 

“The traditional way, if you look at President Obama and other presidents, most of them didn’t make calls, a lot of them didn’t make calls,” Trump said. “I like to call when it’s appropriate, when I think I’m able to do it.”

 

The former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff joined the chorus of criticism directed at President Donald Trump for claiming that former President Barack Obama did not call the families of U.S. service personnel killed in conflict.

 

“POTUS 43 & 44 and first ladies cared deeply, worked tirelessly for the serving, the fallen, and their families,” General Marty Dempsey tweeted Monday.

 

© 2017 Bill Clark, Former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Marty Dempsey Joins Criticism of Trump for Obama War Dead Slur, Newsweek (17 October 2017)

 

 

Regarding Trump's unwarranted nastiness

 

San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich told The Nation's Dave Zirin that:

 

 

I’ve been amazed and disappointed by so much of what this president had said, and his approach to running this country, which seems to be one of just a never ending divisiveness.

 

But his comments today about those who have lost loved ones in times of war and his lies that previous presidents Obama and Bush never contacted their families are so beyond the pale, I almost don’t have the words.

 

This man in the Oval Office is a soulless coward who thinks that he can only become large by belittling others.

 

This has of course been a common practice of his, but to do it in this manner—and to lie about how previous presidents responded to the deaths of soldiers—is as low as it gets.

 

We have a pathological liar in the White House, unfit intellectually, emotionally, and psychologically to hold this office, and the whole world knows it, especially those around him every day.

 

The people who work with this president should be ashamed, because they know better than anyone just how unfit he is, and yet they choose to do nothing about it. This is their shame most of all.

 

© 2017 Dave Zinn, ‘A Soulless Coward’: Coach Gregg Popovich Responds to Trump, The Nation (16 October 2017) (paragraphs split)

 

 

The moral? — Wealth screens people from accountability

 

President Trump's escape from legitimate character shaping may be why some of the more stalwart presences in his Administration (inferably viscerally) detest him. Especially so, because they probably would have correctively beat the shit out of the pudgy bag of bilge vomit early in life.

 

Had nature's handful of bully-eaters done this repeatedly during the President's formative years, we might today have a more respect-worthy and effective Commander in Chief.