
BlakPac Columnist
The Donald Trump Show featuring a monologue of amateurish snide remarks, personal attacks, and name calling has been on top of the ratings — until now.
Ben Carson has edged ahead of Trump in Iowa and national polls for the first time. Let’s see if “The Donald” will continue to act like a spoiled schoolyard name-calling bully as he did when he consistently led all polls.
Trump has a glass jaw ego that can’t take a critical punch. He can give but obviously can’t take.
You would think that Trump, after maintaining a lead for months, would want to move away from making petty verbal assaults on critics and opponents as he has been since the beginning of his campaign.
While Ronald Reagan, Bush 41 and Bush 43 showed class and character and let media and political opponents’ criticism roll off of their backs, Trump has a very thin skin that is easily penetrated by the slightest perceived affront. He exhibits a “disparage me at your own risk” philosophy.
He has made undignified and belittling comments about those in the media whom he feels have been unfair or unkind including Fox News’ Megyn Kelly (“I do not think Megyn Kelly is a quality journalist”); syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer (“totally overrated clown”); NBC’s Chuck Todd (“a real loser”); and pollster Frank Luntz (“total looser”).
He reserved some of his most vicious attacks not for President Obama and Hillary Clinton, but for his own GOP opponents: South Carolina Sen. Lindsay Graham (“an idiot”);”Jeb Bush (“unhappy person” with “low energy.”); Carly Fiorina ("Look at that face! Would anyone vote for that?”); former Texas Gov. Rick Perry (“He should be forced to take an IQ test before being allowed to enter the GOP debate"); Marco Rubio, R-Fla, (“this clown”); and Rand Paul, R-Ky. (“shouldn't even be on the debate stage").
Such malicious low blows get headlines and laughs but they are not very becoming to one who seeks the highest office in the land.
In a not so indirect slap on Jeb Bush, he even suggested that the 9/11 terrorist attack was George W. Bush’s fault because it happened on his watch. That makes about as much sense as saying that Franklin Roosevelt was at fault for Pearl Harbor, Ronald Reagan was responsible for the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing, or the Challenger disaster or that Bill Clinton was at fault for the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993.
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