Boos at a D.C. ballgame? What was Trump expecting?
By Eugene Robinson / The Washington Post
It is President Trump’s own fault that he got so lustily booed at the World Series game in Washington, D.C., Sunday night. When you publicly refer to people as “human scum,” they are likely to return the favor.
Trump looked surprised when his appearance at Nationals Park (where the Houston Astros won yet another game) was greeted with catcalls and chants of “Lock him up!” After all, earlier in the day he had announced the killing of Islamic State monster Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in a daring U.S. Special Operations raid. Surely, he must have felt, he deserved kudos for that.
And indeed he does. Here they are: Sincere congratulations for ridding the world of a sadistic butcher who richly deserved his fate.
The problem is, though, that one battlefield success did not erase 33 months of presidential behavior that many if not most Americans consider outrageous and worthy of impeachment. The smile and wave that Trump offered those baseball fans did not rescind the vicious, snarling rhetoric he spews on a daily basis, including his recent description of Republicans who oppose him as “human scum.” The flicker of vulnerability that played across Trump’s face when he heard all the booing probably softened few hearts, if any.
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