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Why is Trump even bothering to respond to Meryl Streep's Golden Globe remarks? What are we supposed to expect from Trump for the next four years? Is he going to tweet every time a TV/screen celebrity, Kimmel, Fallon, O'Brian, et al makes him the butt of a joke or derides him? Grow the hell up, Donnie boy!
He has signed himself up for all sorts of criticism from literally everywhere on the planet. Can the man rise above nothing? Has he no self-respect? World leaders don't "do the dozens" onTwitter.
The obvious way to deal with public scorn is to ignore it and move steadily forward on your substantive agenda. This is high school rhetoric/forensic debate: you don't attack people; you attack ideas and the weakness with which they are presented and you do it with undeniable facts. What does it take to know that?
The man went to a military prep school. Did they just not prepare him for the ennobled life expected of him, the life he's got at least the appearance of leading? The man is acting like lottery winning trailor trash. Why?
He shouldn't be giving Streep the time of day, much less the satisfaction of a response to her remarks. You by your silent nonchalance consign people to ignominy and move on with what you are doing and what you have to say. Let the hoi polloi trifle amongst themselves. Principals, to say nothing of a PEOTUS, have no need to deign to that level, nor would or should they. There is no material upside to it.
The man has the world at his fingertips - financially successful beyond any reasonable expectation, popular with millions, known around the world, about to assume the reigns of the single most powerful position on the planet - and what does he do? He responds to every criticism from every corner like an insecure playground bully.
It isn't just the stooping that disconcerts me. It's that for Trump, policies and ideology recede to the backburner of his priorities. Instead, image advances as the key to his ascendance, and right behind it, media mention. Is that what the voters want? If so, why? To what end? Are there too few films for people to get their daily dose of "entertainers in chief?" At this point, it's beginning to look like Trump uses Twitter-tainment as a façade to conceal his desultory policy by distracting the American public with pussyfooting and catchy quips.
I would think the man be embarrassed. I sure am embarrassed for him as well as chagrined to have to try to explain to my overseas friends how it is the U.S. made this man PEOTUS.
He has signed himself up for all sorts of criticism from literally everywhere on the planet. Can the man rise above nothing? Has he no self-respect? World leaders don't "do the dozens" onTwitter.
The obvious way to deal with public scorn is to ignore it and move steadily forward on your substantive agenda. This is high school rhetoric/forensic debate: you don't attack people; you attack ideas and the weakness with which they are presented and you do it with undeniable facts. What does it take to know that?
The man went to a military prep school. Did they just not prepare him for the ennobled life expected of him, the life he's got at least the appearance of leading? The man is acting like lottery winning trailor trash. Why?
He shouldn't be giving Streep the time of day, much less the satisfaction of a response to her remarks. You by your silent nonchalance consign people to ignominy and move on with what you are doing and what you have to say. Let the hoi polloi trifle amongst themselves. Principals, to say nothing of a PEOTUS, have no need to deign to that level, nor would or should they. There is no material upside to it.
The man has the world at his fingertips - financially successful beyond any reasonable expectation, popular with millions, known around the world, about to assume the reigns of the single most powerful position on the planet - and what does he do? He responds to every criticism from every corner like an insecure playground bully.
It isn't just the stooping that disconcerts me. It's that for Trump, policies and ideology recede to the backburner of his priorities. Instead, image advances as the key to his ascendance, and right behind it, media mention. Is that what the voters want? If so, why? To what end? Are there too few films for people to get their daily dose of "entertainers in chief?" At this point, it's beginning to look like Trump uses Twitter-tainment as a façade to conceal his desultory policy by distracting the American public with pussyfooting and catchy quips.
I would think the man be embarrassed. I sure am embarrassed for him as well as chagrined to have to try to explain to my overseas friends how it is the U.S. made this man PEOTUS.
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