In Chuck Todd’s Meet the Press March 11th interview he asked Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, when about Trump’s Saturday rally where he said a prominent black Congresswoman is a “low IQ individual.
Can you imagine covering Bernie or Pocahontas? Maxine Waters, a very low I.Q. individual. Nancy Pelosi, you can't have that. And Conor Lamb, Lamb the sham.
Mnuchin muttered out of his monied mealymouth:
“You know he likes to put names on people. … the president likes making funny names….He’s using these vulgarities in the context of a campaign rally and obviously there were a lot of funny moments on, on, on that rally.”
It doesn’t particularly surprise me that Mnuchin would say this, and in fact, I expect these will be the memes used from now on by anyone else when asked about the crude and demeaning utterances coming from the Vulgarian-in-Chief both in rallies and Tweets. We had “it was just locker room talk” and now we have the “it’s only comedy” defense.
My analysis of the Todd vs. Mnuchin smackdown:
As Trump feels more and more embattled I predict we will see him HAVE more and more rally events where he can milk the crowd for cheers and laughs with his crude act. He knows his crowds don’ t come to be inspired or informed, they come to be entertained. He said it himself:
You know how easy, remember I used to say how easy it is to be presidential? But you'd all be out of here right now if I-- you'd be so bored.
As his world falls apart around him and with nobody he can turn to for the deep emotional support one usually finds with a wife Trump will turn to crowds that enjoy his act.
As he rants and raves in anger, underneath he is the tragic clown, only he doesn’t know it. There is a big difference between Emmett Kelly and Trump. Kelly was truly the greatest circus clown ever. When he appeared at The Great Show on Earth in the three-ring expanse of Madison Square Garden the light went dark. The crowd was silent as he stepped into a spotlight with his broom. Then another small spotlight was turned on and he would futilely try to sweep it under a carpet.
The president is the worst president ever. He’s also been depicted as a clown so often that if Internet Images hits counted, he’d be ranked the most famous clown ever. Not the best, just the most famous.
Kelly entertained but he never endangered. Trump is now endangering all of us.