@NicolleDWallace as much I despise Trump I prefer that you don’t spread wrong info. He did not say he wanted to be a dictator “on day one” as you repeatedly said today. He said “for one day”. Don’t give chances to the other side to make our message less believable.
“I had a very emotional reaction. I was not surprised, because I felt all along that a just verdict would be on the order of 75 to 100 million, possibly even more. But to actually see justice done in this case, I found it quite moving, and I confess I had to go out and take a walk to compose myself.
“It was staggering in that sense, but it was well deserved. It brings to mind the old saying, the saying attributed to Dr. Martin Luther King—the moral arc of the universe is long, but it bends toward justice.
“Well, litigation is a part of that. Litigation takes a long time; it takes a long time to bring someone to justice both civilly and criminally. But when justice comes, it comes with a bang.”
It should have been over when Donald Trump called Mexicans rapists.
It wasn’t.
It should have been over when he mocked a disabled reporter.
It wasn’t.
Not when he demeaned a POW, attacked a Gold Star family, insulted a military widow, tried to ban Muslims, called women dogs or boasted about being able to shoot someone in the middle of Fifth Avenue.
It should have been over when he bragged about sexual assault.
It wasn’t.
He’s tear gassed peaceful protestors, incited a deadly attack on our Capitol, supported the calls to hang his VP, joked, mocked & lied about Paul Pelosi’s attack, hurled insults not only at judges and prosecutors, but at their families as well.
And it has changed nothing.
Only days ago, he suggested the highest-ranking military officer in our country should be executed.
And no one in his party cared.
His depravity knows no bounds.
The child who threw rocks at babies never grew up.
He is a sociopath.
Devoid of humanity.
Incapable of empathy.
And being able to support him despite or even because of all of the horrible things he’s done, says more about those people than it does about him.
CEO pay of the largest carmakers in the world.
Honda: $2.3M
Nissan $4.5M
Toyota: $6.7M
BMW: $5.6M
Mercedes: $7.5M
Porsche: $7.9M
Ford: $21M
Stellantis: $25M
GM: $29M
Folks, don't believe it for a second that US automakers can't afford to pay workers better wages.
A British writer penned the best description of Donald Trump I’ve ever read:
“Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?”
A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.
Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.
Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.
There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.
And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down.
So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:
• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.
• You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.
This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.
And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?' If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.”
-Nate White