It so great having a POTUS with the mentality of a 16 year old high school boy. Makes me proud to me an American.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/16/politics ... index.html
Donald Trump bullied a man as overweight, then didn't apologize
"Trump did not apologize, a White House official tells me. He phoned the supporter, left him a message thanking him for his support, but did not use the words 'sorry' or 'apologize.'"
No, of course he didn't.
Here are the things I find remarkable about all this:
1) We have a President who thinks fat-shaming someone in front of thousands of people is a totally acceptable thing to do
2) The crowd laughed and applauded when Trump made the comment about the man's weight
3) Trump only decided to reach out to the man when informed he was a supporter
4) The White House went out of its way to make clear that Trump did not apologize to the man
Back in the early 2000's I met a couple, Neil and Gail. They lived in Jersey but owned a vacation home near about where I live. They were both from Arizona originally where they'd started an interior design business shortly after they were married which became pretty successful. So much so they decided to move most of the operation to Jersey -near NYC- in the latter part of the eighties.
Shortly after the move they put a rather significant bid in for work at Trump's Taj Mahal in Atlantic City. They were surprised when they won the contract. Long story short: despite having been told by a rep from the Trump Org that the work was exemplary they ended up being paid thirty cents on the dollar. They were told by an attorney that their first mistake was doing any work for "that con artist". And if they wanted to complain they would be told to "take a ticket and go to the back of the line." In the end they did the most prudent thing and settled (after the Trump Org countersued). They were fortunate to get what they did. Many never saw a nickel. Needless to say It very nearly broke their business.
I write this story because I'm thinking of my late father with vigor on this the 17th of August. Too bad I've polluted good memories with the foul stench of the orange shitacne. But I can do penance by telling the story of us going to visit my father (WWII vet, union shop steward) back when The Apprentice was on which was shortly before my father's death in 2006.
My wife and I had been watching (this is before I know the Neil and Gail story) and I go to turn it on at my dad's apartment and he says (verbatim) "Na uh. You want to watch that too full of himself jabrody con man, Marie (his neighbor at the senior high-rise) watches it. You can go over there."
He recognized what Trump was: the loud mouth at the bar, the boor nobody wanted to play euchre with, the braggart no one believed, the bully who in fact is a coward. I've said this a thousand times, men and women who were born in the early 1920's, who lived through the great depression, who fought in either theater in WWII, most of them could size you up within two minutes.
Here's a non sequitur-
Anyone else's father/grandfather ever hear/use the word 'jabrody'...or 'japalac'? which was another one of his favorites.
Lastly
Here's to you, Pop. You truly were the greatest person I ever knew.