George Conway: Trump went ballistic at me on Twitter. Here's why he reacts with such rage.
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George Conway: Trump went ballistic at me on Twitter. Heres why he reacts with such rage.
By George T. Conway III
Contributing columnist
May 6, 2020 at 6:16 PM EDT
Americans died from covid-19 at the rate of about one every 42 seconds during the past month. That ought to keep any president awake at night. ... Not Donald Trump.
Just days ago, the president flipped out at a detailed New York Times article that described how he watches television at all hours, obsessed about how hes covered in the news. As though to prove the storys thesis, Trump rage-tweeted that it was a phony story and that the media would say Anything to demean! ... And then, as though to prove the point again, at 12:46 a.m. on Tuesday, Trump went ballistic on Twitter at me.
In a four-tweet screed, he attacked me and my colleagues at the Lincoln Project as LOSERS, loser types, crazed and a disgrace to Honest Abe. About me, he said, I dont know what Kellyanne did to her deranged loser of a husband, Moonface, but it must have been really bad. Ten hours later, on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews, Trump was still enraged, ranting about us for nearly two minutes in front of the media.
What triggered his ire was a 60-second online ad we released Monday. Entitled Mourning in America, its an inversion of President Ronald Reagans famous 1984 reelection campaign ad, Morning in America. Reagans ad took credit for the resurgence of the American economy. Our ad puts the blame for the governments failures in responding to covid-19 right where it belongs on Trump. He dithered for 10 weeks, from January to mid-March, misleading the public about the severity of the crisis, pretending that the virus would never take hold here. History will record that each day of delay cost American lives.
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George Conway
George T. Conway III, a Washington Post contributing columnist, is a lawyer and is an adviser to the Lincoln Project, an anti-Trump super PAC. Follow https://twitter.com/gtconway3d
hlthe2b
(102,495 posts)machoneman
(4,016 posts)FakeNoose
(32,854 posts)... you should be able to read the entire column. Somehow the paywall doesn't activate on that link in his Twitter account.
Another way is to right-click on the link in DU and when the window opens select the option to "open link in incognito window." When you do that WaPo cannot read your cookies and see that you've already received your limit of 5 per month, or whatever it is.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,721 posts)RVN VET71
(2,699 posts)the result is more stupidity. A real man or woman would have taken the ad in stride and focused on the problems besetting the nation. Like the deaths of 10s of 1,000 of our citizens, for example. A stupid man would obsess over the attack and have a whiney ass, spoiled little boy "mad" in front of the entire world.
Trump is a stupid man.
His loyal followers are stupid people. Not just the "screw my self interest, I jus' wanna get one over on them libs!" stupid people. But also the greedy rich psychopaths who support him are stupid people: they think they are controlling him as he destroys the fabric of the Republic and endangers its economy by turning the very tax law into a goddam Ponzi scheme (where the rich get richer, for the time being, and the rest of us can go to hell.)
Trump uses the term "losers" as the worst sort of insult -- but it's deflective. He uses it to focus his own weakness on his enemies. The schoolyard version of "I'm a loser? Oh, no, you're the losers, big fat losers, you, not me!" cried out by the little kid in the center of a laughing circle of his peers.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,064 posts)erronis
(15,429 posts)I believe this may be the purpose of installing the cretin in the WH.
"they think they are controlling him as he destroys the fabric of the Republic and endangers its economy by turning the very tax law into a goddam Ponzi scheme (where the rich get richer, for the time being, and the rest of us can go to hell.)"
Absolutely. They think they don't need any truly democratic (or our facsimile thereof) government to prosper. They don't want the rest of us around. I will agree that they are stupid because the end game will end up killing them also.
RVN VET71
(2,699 posts)America's sinking into a third world country will accelerate, citizens rights will become more and more ignored or cancelled altogether, and the fat pigs ruining the economy will find themselves with less and less gold to compete for -- in the end they'll devour themselves, save maybe for one or two oligarchs with Russian surnames.
A dictator's decision to wage war will depend on the ability -- the guaranteed ability -- to win that war. Trump may, in fact, wage a war against Iran, for example. But he will lose that war because Iran will not allow itself to be defeated and because American supply lines will be stretched to the snapping point and because America's one time allies like France and the U.K. will diplomatically tell us to go to hell. Russia, ah Russia, will offer to help -- at a price. And Russia will also help Iran -- at a smaller price. That will keep things going, deaths spiraling upward as American power spirals downward, and Russia will be the better off for it!
But, of course, China will be much better off for it.
maddiemom
(5,106 posts)Chipper Chat
(9,702 posts)Was named after the Lincoln AUTOMOBILE and not Honest Abe.
(Shhhhhhhhh)
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,721 posts)usaf-vet
(6,232 posts)live love laugh
(13,189 posts)Coincidence? Nope. A sign that the Lincoln Project is a real threat? Very likely.
WhiteTara
(29,730 posts)I didn't put that together until you said that. Thanks.
Squinch
(51,075 posts)days it will all catch up to him and give him a terminal apoplectic fit.
PJMcK
(22,067 posts)MyOwnPeace
(16,949 posts)WAY too many words for him to read - plus, no pictures!
Gothmog
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WhiteTara
(29,730 posts)When your opponent is choleric, irritate him.
TNNurse
(6,931 posts)were the strangest political married couple??? George and Kellyanne really blow that out of the water.
The thought of what goes on between them is just too much to even imagine.
LittleGirl
(8,292 posts)FakeNoose
(32,854 posts)... politically and intellectually. Every step of the way. I'll bet she's quietly giving him a lot of material to work with, even though she can never acknowledge it. You have to wonder how stupid Chump is, to not have figured it out by now.
JI7
(89,283 posts)same side. and Kellyanne was anti trump and supported ted Cruz until she decided to do anything for money and joined the trump campaign. and she stays on for money.
She is still a conservative but hates trump personally.
dem4decades
(11,317 posts)Rick Wilson, Steve Schmidt, and Conway are very effective. Wilson with his humor. Schmidt with his solemness, and Conway with his pin point accuracy. It's nice to have them on our side against Trump. Why are they Republicans? I know Wilson and Schmidt
say they are no longer but I doubt they will not return to their party. What is their beef with Democratic party beliefs?
Girard442
(6,087 posts)"When they go low, we go high." isn't the way to do it.
When they go low, we go high and lower.
The standard bearers stay out of the mud, but the foot soldiers get down into it.
Biden probably shouldn't go around calling Trump a deranged mass murderer, but independent actors sure as hell should.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Girard442
(6,087 posts)Even nicer would be the British Hedgehog. The Hedgehog fired a spread of multiple charges forward from the attacking destroyer. Most of them would miss -- but some would score direct hits. Hedgehog charges detonated on contact, so even one hit would be devastating.
JI7
(89,283 posts)than democrats going after trump since the media treats it as a "both sides" usual partisan politics type of thing.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,721 posts)George Conway, Noble Committee Chair
@gtconway3d
Lawyer. Moonface. Advisor,
@ProjectLincoln
. Founding member,
@chkbal
. Contributing columnist,
@WashingtonPost
. Fighting windmill cancers root cause.
George Conway, Noble Committee Chair Retweeted
At some point,
@realDonaldTrump
will realize hes been had. They are ripping him off like a dog.
Link to tweet
safeinOhio
(32,746 posts)To really get under his skin.
Pay Obama to narrate a spot about him.
MyOwnPeace
(16,949 posts)just replay the Washington Correspondents' Dinner tape of him "welcoming" IQ45 to the dinner. If you watch closely I swear you can see steam coming out from under the orange rug.
I'm convinced that that was the night IQ45 decided to run for *president.
safeinOhio
(32,746 posts)I had in my mind.
MyOwnPeace
(16,949 posts)"brilliant minds think alike!"
Neema
(1,151 posts)This is absolutely when trump decided he was going to bring President Obama down if it killed him.
MyOwnPeace
(16,949 posts)polar opposites still has the support of so many. Certainly makes me sad for our country and fearful/concerned/worried about the coming election.........