S.E. Cupp: How Trump haunts the dead: Our terrible president's awful habit of attacking people...

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https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-how-trump-haunts-the-dead-20200526-o453ynqe6zcbhdb53tu5xncq7y-story.html

How Trump haunts the dead: Our terrible president’s awful habit of attacking people who can’t defend themselves
By S.E. Cupp
New York Daily News |
May 26, 2020 | 12:01 PM


“Punch up, not down.” Whether in comedy or politics, the consensus precept has provided helpful parameters in which to acceptably swing at rivals or targets. The idea is, pick on someone your own size.

I can think of no better — meaning worse — example of punching down than one of the most powerful men on the planet picking on the dead and harassing their surviving family members in the process. Even someone with just a modicum of decency and awareness of social mores would know better than to drag the deceased and their relatives through the muck for no good reason at all.

The president of the United States has neither decency nor awareness, quite obviously. In the midst of a global pandemic that has nearly claimed 100,000 American lives, and over Memorial Day Weekend, when we’re meant to soberly honor our fallen soldiers, Donald Trump was tweeting deranged conspiracy theories about a cable news host and his former staffer.

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Months after Democratic Rep. John Dingell died at 92, Trump joked at a rally in Dingell’s home state of Michigan that he might be “looking up” on the crowd — implying he was in hell, not heaven.

And of course, during the 2016 campaign, Trump publicly attacked the parents of a fallen soldier, Capt. Humayun Khan, who had been critical of the candidate’s anti-immigration proposals. Trump used anti-Muslim gender tropes to mock Khan’s father and mother. “If you look at his wife, she was standing there. She had nothing to say. She probably, maybe she wasn’t allowed to have anything to say.”

While Sen. John McCain was dying from cancer, Trump continued his feud with his longtime rival. His eventual death did not put a moratorium on the attacks, with Trump petulantly complaining that he gave McCain “the funeral he wanted, and I didn’t get a thank you.”

Punching down — even at the dead — isn’t the mark of a strong, secure, courageous man. It’s the mark of a small, weak, insecure coward with no impulse control, compassion or common decency. That’s our president.

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1. K&R

[LakeArenal]

2. Can not stand S.E. Crap.

She’s been on the wrong side for toooo long. Also, she’s Meghan MCCains best friend. If you are swallowing SE’s crap we should be able to swallow MC Cain’s crap.

At least Meghan has supported Joe from before he announced.

[babylonsister]

3. Did you bother to read this? She's right whether

you like her or not.

[TeamPooka]

4. but she still helped Trump get elected so fuck her

[LakeArenal]

5. Thanks.

[mvd]

6. Actually a good article. It seems more..

Repukes are talking about how unacceptable Trump’s behavior is, but there need to be a lot more still.