I wonder if *this* is why Trump is serious about running:

[phantom power]

These masters of the universe are well known for being thin-skinned, regardless of how they love to bill themselves as men of steel. It isn't actually hard for me to imagine Trump deciding that he was going to become president and "show everybody" after being humiliated in this way by an actual president.

The other day, Adam Gopnik wrote about that memorable evening in which the president made Trump look like a jackass in front of all of official Washington while none of them knew that, shortly before taking the podium, the president had given the go order for American special forces to kill Osama bin Laden. Gopnik recalls, correctly, that Trump's reaction to the president's jiving him about Trump's ugly birtherism was to sit there with cartoon steam coming out of both ears.

Seated a few tables away from us magazine scribes, Trump's humiliation was as absolute, and as visible, as any I have ever seen: his head set in place, like a man in a pillory, he barely moved or altered his expression as wave after wave of laughter struck him. There was not a trace of feigning good humor about him, not an ounce of the normal politician's, or American regular guy's "Hey, good one on me!" attitude—that thick-skinned cheerfulness that almost all American public people learn, however painfully, to cultivate. No head bobbing or hand-clapping or chin-shaking or sheepish grinning—he sat perfectly still, chin tight, in locked, unmovable rage.

This is, of course, absolutely true. 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.
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a37954/treat-trump-like-he-treats-them/

[saturnsring]

1. Love Charlie pierce . You can hear him live on Tuesdays on the Stephanie miller show

Rude pundit is on mondays

[Octafish]

2. Dinsdale used...sarcasm.

Vercotti: He used... sarcasm. He knew all the tricks, dramatic irony, metaphor, pathos, puns, parody, litotes and... satire. He was vicious.

[redwitch]

5. "He nailed my wife's 'ead to a coffee table!"

Ah, the Pirhana Brothers, Spiny Norman. Good times.

[pnwmom]

3. Ridicule is the best way to undermine a narcissist. The problem is,

he has so much money many people are probably afraid of what he might do to retaliate. Like buy their place of business and then fire them.

[Hoyt]

4. I think he jumped in the race as a personal promotion with no real hope of significant support, but

he caught on quickly with the bigots with his hatred toward immigrants. He is going to ride this wave as far as it goes.

[Hortensis]

10. I'm guessing that has to be a big part of the mix, too, Hoyt.

[lunatica]

6. I always thought he jumped in the race on a bet

and I've always thought the bet was about how he could get all the attention without giving a single policy point or spending much money. He would just ride the media to the end. He would let the media do the work of giving him all the attention and that he would leave the other politicians eating his dust.

He might win that bet.

[world wide wally]

7. Think of that every time you hear Trump criticize Obama

It has never had ANYTHING to do with policy or competence

[Hortensis]

11. True, but it's the same for all who dis him, always strikingly personal.

[Eleanors38]

8. I've wondered about this as well.

[Shankapotomus]

9. I drew the same conclusion in August

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=7103071