CHARLES PIERCE: Trump so thin-skinned-if he swallowed flashlight-he’d glow like a Japanese lantern

[kpete]

​Everyone Should Treat Thin-Skinned Donald Trump Like He Treats Them
But they won't


Because, at some point, all things come back to the Pythons, I was struck by a thought last night as I watched Donald Trump give the same speech for the 100th time in the 100th different place, much to the delight of America's cable-news executives, who lap up his every word these days like hogs going for the last corn husk on doomsday. You know the sucking up has reached critical mass among the elite political press when the inexcusably employed Mark Halperin begins slurping so loudly you can hear him from space. For an exclusive boat ride down the Mekong, Halperin would have pronounced himself dazzled by the incomparable wit of Pol Pot.

On Monday night, it was Dallas, and it was the same damn speech. The Libidinous Visitor mentioned "the lovely Kate" out in San Francisco, once again neglecting to say Kate Steinle's full name because he either doesn't know it or doesn't really give a damn about it. We heard again about the marvels that will be wrought by his proposed Junk Bond Cabinet. (What is Secretary of Commerce Carl Icahn going to do when he finds out he can't merge China with Thailand and lay off half the workforce?) We heard again how the very election of Trump will scare the Iranians so badly that they will release any Americans held in their jails before he's even inaugurated. And we heard about the wall, and the magnificent door that will be in it. (At least we know where he'll get the concrete. http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/31/politics/trump-mob-mafia/) In general, we heard that all this will happen because he's Trump and we're not, and neither is anyone else running for president. And that was when I realized, Trump is a self-contained Ron Obvious project.

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Trump is so thin-skinned that, if he swallowed a flashlight, he'd glow like a Japanese lantern. It is past time now for somebody else in the field, or some other influential Republicans who are not running for president, assuming there are any, to begin a campaign of relentless mockery. Laugh at his hair, his serial marriages, his three bankruptcies, the ludicrous tastelessness of his properties, his skeevy remarks about his own daughter, and the subatomic level of seriousness with which he has approached his entire public life, let alone his campaign for president. He should be subjected to every weapon that Doug Piranha brought to bear against poor Luigi Vercotti.


After all, the man has only two comebacks: 1) "You're stupid," and 2) "Look at my poll numbers." This is a completely and self-evidently ridiculous man and the idea that cable news executives feel compelled to televise every waking minute of his campaign requires that they be flogged out of the business.



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[truebluegreen]

1. Preach it, brother! Amen.

Remember the Correspondents' Dinner when Seth Meyers and our POTUS skewered him? He had to sit there and take it, doing his best imitation of Mt. Rushmore--I'll bet that's when he decided to run...but not against Obama!

I certainly can't think of any other reason for him to be so motivated. Love of country? Puhleeeeze.

[Stardust]

2. Come to think about it, I don't think I've ever heard him laugh.* If he has, I'd bet anything that

it was about something in a mean vein.

*"and the subatomic level of seriousness with which he has approached his entire public life, let alone his campaign for president."

[hifiguy]

3. Charlie hits another home run

and double extra bonus points for the stealth Monty Python reference.

[malaise]

4. Charlie nailed him

Freaking perfect