Trump loves to chose a derogatory word to “define” his opponents with no concern whether the label is accurate or not. It’s been very effective for him. It won him the Republican primary. It hasn’t been so successful against Hillary, but then again, the media has been doing that job for him, so I don’t suppose he’s felt the need to be quite as consistent and repetitive as he was during the primaries.
I don’t generally advance the idea that we should lower ourselves to the childish behavior of Trump. However, there is one label that is so very accurate and appropriate that I think it’s long past time it gets pasted on him continuously, and that label is The Whiner.
The guy has always whined. His attacks against Megan Kelly were just whining. Anytime things don’t go exactly the way he wants, he whines. He whines when Hillary holds a press conference in front of a plane. He whines when people criticize Matt Lauer for throwing him softball questions while treating Hillary like the sexist ass Lauer is. Right now he’s even whining about the debates being unfair to him — before they’ve even been held. He’s whining that he thinks the election is going to be “fixed” so he’ll lose.
So why isn’t that word being used again and again and again by everyone to point out what a little wimpy whiner he is? His supporters see him as some kind of tough guy standing up to whoever it is they think he’s standing up to — guess it would be Mexicans, Blacks, Muslims — you know, all those really powerful groups. So let’s use the Republican tact of taking what is supposed to be someone’s greatest strength and twist it into a weakness? Only we wouldn’t even have to twist anything here, because it’s simply the truth.
If that meme got going, it would finally limit what he’s able to whine about. If everytime he starts in about some of ridiculous complaints about how he’s treated unfairly, a host of articles, statements, tweets, etc. got started about how he’s whining again, I think it would have a real impact on how his supporters see him. Plus I think that blustering ego would get incredibly offended and frustrated by that word — much more so than anything like “liar” or “cheater” or “dishonest”. Because frankly, I think he’s rather proud of being those things. But a whiner? Much more so a wimpy whiner? That wouldn’t make him so proud.
A second label that would be very fitting for Trump is Sore Loser. The fact that he’s already whining about both the debates and the election is not just evidence that he’s anticipating being a loser but that he’s anticipating being a Sore Loser.
So let’s get a meme going so that everytime we type Trump’s name, we make it “Whiner Trump” or “Sore Loser Trump”. I’d like to see Whiner Trump take the spotlight because I think it’s so incredibly accurate right now and I think it would hit his ego right where it’s most vulnerable.