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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Fri Jul 19, 2019, 09:04 AM Jul 2019

Trump 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, Won’t 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 it’s 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 Friedman’s brutal column, which warned Democrats that Trump could win in 2020.

The searing line that likely piqued Trump’s ire: “I wasn’t 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.”

Read here.

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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
#RacistTrump's fragile Ego is having a sad. tsk tsk riversedge Jul 2019 #1
And he pretends to be President in between rounds of golf.... Dale Neiburg Jul 2019 #3
suck on this Friedman?..the wanna be state side "scud stud"? Demonaut Jul 2019 #2
Spelling ConstanceCee Jul 2019 #4
Bwahahahaha. Pot calling the kettle black. zooks Jul 2019 #5
The Best Chin Ever. dalton99a Jul 2019 #7
POS bdamomma Jul 2019 #9
Interesting choice of a nickname/insult coming from the "Chingina" himself. smirkymonkey Jul 2019 #13
Thomas Friedman has the blood of thousands on his hands. GreenEyedLefty Jul 2019 #6
wait, isn't freidman 'the mustache of truth'? KG Jul 2019 #8
'The mustache of understanding' JHB Jul 2019 #12
get your war on KG Jul 2019 #14
THAT's it! JHB Jul 2019 #17
he married into BIG money. clear whose side he's on. KG Jul 2019 #18
Orange ever claim he was the least narcissistic person ever? Brainfodder Jul 2019 #10
Interesting that Donnie area51 Jul 2019 #11
He doesn't realize he just made a 1000 more people want to read that article. richsonpoordad Jul 2019 #15
I did not write that...SO STOP SAYING THAT!!!!!! Brother Buzz Jul 2019 #16
 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
13. Interesting choice of a nickname/insult coming from the "Chingina" himself.
Fri Jul 19, 2019, 12:47 PM
Jul 2019

What a stupid, petty asshole!

GreenEyedLefty

(2,073 posts)
6. Thomas Friedman has the blood of thousands on his hands.
Fri Jul 19, 2019, 11:06 AM
Jul 2019

Fucking asshole was a rabid cheerleader for the Iraq war. I have a hard time rallying to his defense.

JHB

(37,160 posts)
12. 'The mustache of understanding'
Reply to KG (Reply #8)
Fri Jul 19, 2019, 12:29 PM
Jul 2019

I forget the origin off the top of my head, but it dates back to the Iraq war.

JHB

(37,160 posts)
17. THAT's it!
Fri Jul 19, 2019, 03:10 PM
Jul 2019

Funny, but...

...much less so after some 15 years with him still in the same place, still writing the same vapid crap.

Brainfodder

(6,423 posts)
10. Orange ever claim he was the least narcissistic person ever?
Fri Jul 19, 2019, 11:46 AM
Jul 2019

.....and is there a clip to run in ads all the time, if we are graced with his presence on the ballot in 2020?

times


area51

(11,909 posts)
11. Interesting that Donnie
Fri Jul 19, 2019, 11:55 AM
Jul 2019

basically called Friedman average IQ, but denigrates POC as low IQ. Ah, but Donnie doesn't have a racist bone in his body, right?

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