Trump tweeted to attack The Atlantic. Yesterday a column there called him the most unmanly president

[highplainsdem]

I wondered how long it would take him to respond to Tom Nichols' devastating analysis of Trump the child and his deluded followers who humor him as a child.


https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/donald-trump-the-most-unmanly-president/612031/




Trump's tweet, posted minutes ago:

Link to tweet

Editing to add that Trump just proved his cowardice -- which Nichols mentions -- once again, by not daring to refer directly to the column that has him so upset.

Trump HAS to know that Nichols nailed him there. He doesn't want his followers to see it, wants to just label The Atlantic "Fake News" in the hope no one will believe anything in it.



Editing again to add Tom Nichols' response to Trump's tweet

Link to tweet

and the tweet from an editor of The Atlantic, which rather than "failing" has added 90,000 subscribers since March:

Link to tweet

And another tweet I want to add, this one from Atlantic staff writer Adam Serwer thanking Trump for throwing them a free subscription drive:

Link to tweet

[Ohiogal]

1. Trump is the one

Who is boring, nasty, and failing.

[highplainsdem]

14. +1,000,000

[TheBlackAdder]

17. Trump just proved Tom Nichols' point--how unmanly he is by acting like a pubescent tweenager.

[smirkymonkey]

23. He says the same thing about every news outlet who dares to criticize him and it's never

true. It's pure projection. Like you said, he is the one who is nasty and failing. His posts only underline the point of the article. He's such a whiny little POS!

[SWBTATTReg]

2. I think that The Atlantic is on to something...like so many of us here on DU have been for some time

It's time to put the pouting man child in the corner permanently...

[UTUSN]

3. K& big R#5

[Sinistrous]

4. The Atlantic is obviously way above Dumpster's

intellectual pay grade. Hardly surprising he finds it boring.

[highplainsdem]

19. I'm trying to think of anything that isn't above Trump's intellectual pay grade.

Picture books for toddlers, maybe?

[Crunchy Frog]

5. I think I'll get a subscription.

[Skittles]

11. I did, it is well worth it

excellent writing

[Crunchy Frog]

13. I often read articles online, so I know it's good.

I've just been too cheap to subscribe up til now.

[Skittles]

22. same

I decided I read them often enough where I should really contribute.

[smirkymonkey]

24. It really is.

I am seriously considering a subscription. I haven't been spending any money lately, so I think I might be able to afford it finally.

[Skittles]

27. go for it

it is quality writing and they could use the support

[yortsed snacilbuper]

32. I just did,

digital for a year.

[IronLionZion]

33. Totally worth it

They're a fine publication worth supporting

[spanone]

6. anyone or anything that fails to praise his fat ass is failing.

They're laying off 20% (if that's true, which i doubt considering the source) because don's faux economy has collapsed.

[TheCowsCameHome]

7. You'll require a big tube, but WE. WILL. FLUSH. YOU.

Bank on that, shithead.

[Cha]

8. BLOTUS knows all about being in the "FAKE news business"..

but the Atlantic deals in reality. Booom.

Thank you, hpd

[Azathoth]

9. That Nichols piece is brilliant

I wouldn't be surprised if it becomes required reading in AP American History classes.

[Nevilledog]

15. I totally agree.

[backscatter712]

10. Touched a nerve?

[highplainsdem]

12. Sarah Silverman on Trump's tweet: LOL FUCKING CLOCKWORK

Link to tweet

[KY_EnviroGuy]

16. Love this line quoted by Mr. Nichols.....

(snip)

As the writer Windsor Mann has noted, Trump behaves in ways that many working-class men would ridicule: “He wears bronzer, loves gold and gossip, is obsessed with his physical appearance, whines constantly, can't control his emotions, watches daytime television, enjoys parades and interior decorating, and used to sell perfume.”

Good article and thanks also to Mr. Appelbaum for his cool reply to tRump..........

[smirkymonkey]

25. +1000

I'm sure that got under his heavily bronzed, 40-miles of bad road, extremely thin skin. I really hope he reads everything that is written about him and sees every cartoon that lampoons him. And I hope they wound him deeply and make him realize that there is a whole world of people out here who loathe, despise and ridicule him.

He has to know how much he is hated by the rest of the world outside of his sad little cult. Every now and then, something has to get in and burst his little fantasy bubble.

[struggle4progress]

18. Trump ... Trump ... Y'know, the name sounds vaguely familiar ... I oughta know who he is ...

Is that the guy who owned three casinos that went bankrupt, a hotel that went bankrupt, and several resorts that went bankrupt?

Or is that the guy who owned an airline, a magazine, a mortgage company, and a mail-order meat business that flopped?

Or is that the guy whose fake university scam swindled lots of people out of their hard-earned savings?

It's so hard to keep all these crooks straight

[dweller]

21. in this case, it's a

quivering quelled and quietly begging bag of skin whimpering to a high class D.C.
bint, while he crouches in a corner, naked, and pleading to be whipped with the latest glossy edition of The Atlantic ...

or it could just be fatnixon, late evening, Tuesday

🤔

✌🏼

[justgamma]

20. Wonder who tells him about these columns?

You know he can't read them all. I'm starting to think someone in the WH likes to keep him riled up. lol

[dalton99a]

26. Trump is an erudite man.

[Blue Owl]

28. Maybe Susan Collins could lightly spank him with a rolled-up copy

n/t

[niyad]

29. KNR

[7wo7rees]

30. Even slammed by Ted Cruz.

Excerpt:

Women clearly scare Trump. You don’t have to take my word for it. “Donald doesn’t like strong women,” Senator Ted Cruz said back in 2016 of the candidate who attacked Cruz’s wife as ugly, but who is now his hero as president. “Strong women scare Donald. Real men don’t try to bully women.”

[Corgigal]

31. Someone must have told him,

The Atlantic is above his reading ability.

[sprinkleeninow]

34. "...why don't the pяesident's supporter(s).."

'cause jocques le strap doan wanna go anywears near draft dogers down there covfefe

[Scruffy1]

35. I just subscried to the difital version.

Hope you all do the same. Make him squirm.

[SammyWinstonJack]

36. Boring but very nasty, in which tRump describes himself, perfectly.

tRump, a nasty little child.