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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump Attacks Tom 'The Chin' Friedman For Calling Him Racist: We Just Spoke and He 'Kissed My A**'
Trump Attacks Tom The Chin Friedman For Calling Him Racist: We Just Spoke and He Kissed My A**
By Aidan McLaughlinJul 19th, 2019, 8:54 am
President Donald Trump unleashed a tirade against Thomas Friedman on Twitter Friday morning, claiming the New York Times columnist had been friendly in a private call before deeming him a racist in print. Trump kicked off his Twitter meltdown with an unflattering nickname for Friedman:
Thomas the Chin Friedman, a weak and pathetic sort of guy, writes columns for The New York Times in between rounds of his favorite game, golf. Two weeks ago, while speaking to a friend on his cell phone, I unfortunately ended up speaking to Friedman
he could not have been nicer or more respectful to your favorite President, me. Then I saw the column he wrote, Trump Will Be Re-elected, Wont He? He called me a Racist, which I am not, and said Rhode Island went from economically bad to great in 5 years because the
Governor of the State did a good job. That may be true but she could not have done it without the tremendous economic success of our Country & the turnaround that my Administration has caused. Really Nasty to me in his average I.Q. Columns, kissed my a.. on the call. Phony!
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While its difficult to know what transpired on their call Trump tends to be an unreliable narrator and has claimed many a time that his critics kiss his ass in private the president is correct about Friedmans brutal column, which warned Democrats that Trump could win in 2020.
The searing line that likely piqued Trumps ire: I wasnt surprised to hear so many people expressing fear that the racist, divisive, climate-change-denying, woman-abusing jerk who is our president was going to get re-elected, and was even seeing his poll numbers rise.
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https://www.mediaite.com/trump/trump-attacks-tom-the-chin-friedman-for-calling-him-racist-we-just-spoke-and-he-kissed-my-a/
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Trump Attacks Tom 'The Chin' Friedman For Calling Him Racist: We Just Spoke and He 'Kissed My A**' (Original Post)
DonViejo
Jul 2019
OP
Interesting choice of a nickname/insult coming from the "Chingina" himself.
smirkymonkey
Jul 2019
#13
He doesn't realize he just made a 1000 more people want to read that article.
richsonpoordad
Jul 2019
#15
riversedge
(70,218 posts)1. #RacistTrump's fragile Ego is having a sad. tsk tsk
Dale Neiburg
(698 posts)3. And he pretends to be President in between rounds of golf....
Demonaut
(8,916 posts)2. suck on this Friedman?..the wanna be state side "scud stud"?
ConstanceCee
(314 posts)4. Spelling
Correct spelling on this tweet. To me this is a sure sign he didn't write it.
zooks
(308 posts)5. Bwahahahaha. Pot calling the kettle black.
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dalton99a
(81,488 posts)7. The Best Chin Ever.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)13. Interesting choice of a nickname/insult coming from the "Chingina" himself.
What a stupid, petty asshole!
GreenEyedLefty
(2,073 posts)6. Thomas Friedman has the blood of thousands on his hands.
Fucking asshole was a rabid cheerleader for the Iraq war. I have a hard time rallying to his defense.
KG
(28,751 posts)8. wait, isn't freidman 'the mustache of truth'?
JHB
(37,160 posts)12. 'The mustache of understanding'
I forget the origin off the top of my head, but it dates back to the Iraq war.
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Funny, but...
...much less so after some 15 years with him still in the same place, still writing the same vapid crap.
KG
(28,751 posts)18. he married into BIG money. clear whose side he's on.
Brainfodder
(6,423 posts)10. Orange ever claim he was the least narcissistic person ever?
.....and is there a clip to run in ads all the time, if we are graced with his presence on the ballot in 2020?
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area51
(11,909 posts)11. Interesting that Donnie
basically called Friedman average IQ, but denigrates POC as low IQ. Ah, but Donnie doesn't have a racist bone in his body, right?
richsonpoordad
(83 posts)15. He doesn't realize he just made a 1000 more people want to read that article.
Brother Buzz
(36,434 posts)16. I did not write that...SO STOP SAYING THAT!!!!!!