It's Time to Ignore the Scary Man with the Bad Hair
It rather looks like it's time to turn off the Donald Trump channel. Although he's providing some delightful and much-needed levity in these rather frightening and oh-so-serious times, the fact remains that… HE'S BEHAVING QUITE TERRIBLY. And if it's in service of something, what could that possibly be? Not just the whole warring with the Times thing—which, there is no way the Times should have given him space to air his incorrect views without rebuttal—and freaking out all over, straight-up birther-style, but printing out Vanity Fair blog posts and mailing them to Graydon Carter? He's now a figurehead of a very, very small but very vocal group of paranoid conspiracy theorists, who spend all day leaving vaguely literate and rather sick comments on blogs and newspapers! That is their sole presence: angry blog comments! Is that something to which we need to pay attention?
They didn't post his letter without a rebuttal. Gail Collins thoroughly rebutted.
Yeah, and in all honesty, the letter rebutted itself. (Especially since they left it unedited.) I was fully on the "Please stop giving attention to this terrible man" train — UNTIL I read that first Gail Collins column and the letter from Trump in response. Such laffs. Now I say only Gail Collins is allowed to talk about Donald Trump, because she does it so well and it makes him so very mad.
But also: Collins said this: "During one down period, I referred to him in print as a 'financially embattled thousandaire' and he sent me a copy of the column with my picture circled and 'The Face of a Dog!' written over it." The time to ostracize Trump for his terrible behavior and scary paranoia was twenty-five years ago.
Scrolling down just enough to see the headline and 'Vanity Fair' I was sure this was going to be about Graydon Carter.
well, to be fair it does feature both scary men with bad hair.
ME TOO!
Yeah. I want a president who bought his rug from the same infomercial as Kim Jong Il.
Trump's just another distraction while they "hide" their real surprise candidate: Rudy Giuliani.
OMG NO! This is the best thing to happen to Republicans since David Duke because he really draws out the crazies and forces mainstream candidates to be confronted by them and in turn look preposterous. Just think about how Pawlenty's team now has to sweat answering a town hall questions about Obama's birth certificate? He's a complete wedge within the party. And the best part is, if you look at his FEC history, until recently, he's given HEAVILY to Dems. Christ, it's almost like he's an left wing operative!
That said, the Republicans should just pay him not to run because if he gets a national debate stage he's going to say some things about the Chinese that could genuinely do damage to relations.
I'm calling it here and now. Republicans:2012 Presidential Election::Democrats:2004 Presidential Election. They're tearing themselves apart (LISA) over all sorts of madness, and there's no leadership strong enough to smack down the idiots, or even to promote the idiots and smack down the sensible ones. You'll get a split primary vote, leaving someone like Romney running who is just a soft middle candidate.
Thumbing you for that "The Room" reference.
As much as I wish Donald Trump would fall off a hooker and break his neck, it's hard to imagine President Trump being any kinder to other millionaires at the expense of *everybody else* than the current president.
TRUE!
"[package containing blog posts and] a debossed “DONALD J. TRUMP” note card of surprisingly thin paper stock."
Meow.
"Bad Writer!" just makes me think of "Bad Chicken!" Which just proves how fucking New York Trump is.
The guy spends oodles of time writing semi-coherent, defensive letters to newspapers, concocts poison pen scribbles in Magic Marker and sends them to Graydon Carter–the only individual in town who can put more bloat in a dinghy–and when he wants to go boffo, hires Gary Busey, Meat Loaf and LaToya to close his Deal.
I mean. What piece of this puzzle are you missing? This is $850 a night for a room at the Y.
I guess this is where everybody stops paying attention to Donald Trump. Well done, guys!