The Atlantic Magazine just published a spine-chilling story about Donald Trump and his abhorrent remarks about America's veterans and war dead. "Why should I go to that cemetery?" Trump is reported to have said. "It’s filled with losers.” He later added that the 1,800 marines who lost their lives at Belleau Wood were “suckers” for getting killed.
The article was well researched and contained testimony from four sources. It was corroborated by at least three other news organizations. And most of all, it's entirely consistent with Trump's prior public statements disparaging veterans and POWs, including the late Sen. John McCain. Naturally, Trump quickly denied these reports in terms typical of his substanceless, "slash and burn" character (or lack thereof):
Notice that Trump's denial is simply an ad hominem attack on the messenger. That's what he always does. He has no coherent defense based on facts or reality, so he goes for the throat with defamatory rhetoric that virtually no one believes, other than his glassy-eyed cult followers. What follows is a brief history of this psychotic, knee-jerk reaction to any critical news that riles Trump:
- Fredo’s ratings are down more than 50%. People are tired of his act. @CNN IS DYING!
- That is because they cover your favorite President relatively well. @CNN & MSDNC are dying in the ratings!
- The good news is that @maddow is dying in the ratings, along with @CNN!
- So much Fake News being put in dying magazines and newspapers. Only place worse may be @NBCNews, @CBSNews, @ABC and @CNN. Fiction writers!
- The reporting at the failing @nytimes gets worse and worse by the day. Fortunately, it is a dying newspaper.
- FoxNews is changing their theme from "fair and balanced" to "unfair and unbalanced." But dying @WSJ is worse.Their phony poll is a joke!
- Dopey @Lawrence O’Donnell, whose unwatchable show is dying in the ratings, said that my Apprentice $ numbers were wrong. He is a fool!
- NYDailyNews, the dying tabloid owned by dopey clown Mort Zuckerman, puts me on the cover daily because I sell. My honor, but it is dead!
- NicolleDWallace is really hurting @TheView. She is boring, predictable and has zero television "it" - show no longer has ratings, dying!
- LateNightSeth I am not surprised that Seth is absolutely dying in the ratings! He is truly an awkward, mumbling jerk. Too bad!
- VanityFair looks like a dying magazine! Really really boring, really really thin!
If every media enterprise that Trump said was dying actually died there wouldn't be anything left but the National Enquirer. Oh wait. That died. Trump knows that there is no defense for what he said, so he resorts to these petulant tantrums in the hopes of persuading some of his dimwitted disciples that he isn't a cretinous traitor.
Clearly, that isn't working. Trump's approval ratings continue to fall, and he's getting crushed by Joe Biden in every national poll, as well as in most of the crucial swing states. And for the most despicable president in U.S. history, it's all downhill from here.
