{"id":135486,"date":"2017-12-03T12:34:17","date_gmt":"2017-12-03T19:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=135486"},"modified":"2017-12-03T23:48:03","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T06:48:03","slug":"trump-attacks-people-thinks-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/03\/trump-attacks-people-thinks-mean.html","title":{"rendered":"Trump (once again) attacks people he thinks are being mean to him"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donald doesn’t seem to realize that …<\/p>\n

… ranting on Twitter just lends more attention (and perhaps credence) to the charges against him.<\/p>\n

… using hyperbole discredits his arguments for people who might be willing to give him the benefit of the doubt otherwise.<\/p>\n

… attacking people who ought to be on his side (or at least be a force he can use), and publicly asserting that he will fix what he sees as broken with hem … just makes enemies that he can ill afford.<\/p>\n

So pointing out that an ABC reporter made a serious misstatement? Yeah, that’s something one might reasonably note and complain about. Asserting it was a deliberate lie in order to discredit Trump, even though it could not have possibly stood up to scrutiny (as it did not)? That just makes him look petulant and paranoid. Framing it all as a conspiracy by ABC? That just gets into crazy talk.<\/p>\n

Dragging his previous political opponent back into the field of attack? That just sounds banana republic.<\/p>\n

Launching parallel attacks on the FBI over incompetence and deceit, and promising he will bring them “back” to greatness, seems counter-productive.<\/p>\n

Is it all just poor PR from someone who thinks he’s the great deal-maker? Is it the frustrated misunderstanding of how government and politics work from the oligarch who assumes that his orders will be obeyed? Is it a sign of declining mental faculties? Is it an attempt to provide the proper narrative for that 20% of the American public who his remaining ever-more-rabid supporters?<\/p>\n

I don’t know, but it’s just increasingly (if, probably, metaphorically) crazy.<\/p>\n


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Donald doesn’t seem to realize that … … ranting on Twitter just lends more attention (and perhaps credence) to the charges against him. … using hyperbole discredits his arguments for people who might be willing to give him the benefit of the doubt otherwise. … attacking people who ought to be on his side (or … Continue reading “Trump (once again) attacks people he thinks are being mean to him”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,358,1071],"tags":[1077],"class_list":["post-135486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-poor-citizenship","category-trump","tag-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/trump1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":135265,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/02\/press-secretaries-gaslighters.html","url_meta":{"origin":135486,"position":0},"title":"When Press Secretaries are Gaslighters","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 2-Nov-17 2:20pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Sarah Huckabee Sanders isn't even trying any more. 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