{"id":35918,"date":"2017-10-17T15:44:24","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T22:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=35918"},"modified":"2017-10-17T15:45:59","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T22:45:59","slug":"in-mob-style-threat-trump-warns-mccain-and-other-critics-that-people-have-to-be-careful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=35918","title":{"rendered":"In mob-style threat Trump warns McCain and other critics that ‘People have to be careful’"},"content":{"rendered":"

America’s most psychotic president has already deftly demonstrated his gross ignorance, mental disabilities, and sociopathic tendencies. Donald Trump is a textbook example of a malignant narcissist<\/a><\/strong> whose self-exaltation is as important as destroying his perceived enemies. While Democrats have long been concerned about Trump’s aberrant behavior, Republicans are now joining in.<\/p>\n

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One of Trump’s most notable Republican critics is Sen. John McCain of Arizona. Although he has supported much of the administration’s agenda, he has balked at some key moments, including the healthcare vote. On Monday McCain received the Liberty Medal from the National Constitution Center. In his acceptance speech he took a thinly veiled swipe at Trump saying:<\/p>\n

“To abandon the ideals we have advanced around the globe, to refuse the obligations of international leadership for the sake of some half-baked, spurious nationalism, cooked up by people who would rather find scapegoats than solve problems, is as unpatriotic as an attachment to any other tired dogma of the past that Americans consigned to the ash heap of history.”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

OUCH! The reference to “half-baked, spurious nationalism”<\/em> is clearly aimed at Trump and his alt-right, white nationalist followers. McCain is obviously worried about the direction that Trump is taking the country. And he isn’t mincing words to express how he feels. That blunt assessment of the President hit its target, and on Tuesday Trump fired back<\/a><\/strong>. Speaking to ultra-rightist radio talker Chris Plante, he warned that:<\/p>\n

“People have to be careful because at some point I fight back. You know, I\u2019m being very nice. I\u2019m being very, very nice but at some point I fight back and it won\u2019t be pretty.”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If you think that sounds kind of familiar, you’ve probably seen a few gangster movies. The gentlemen hoodlums in the cinema are frequently represented as soft-peddling their threats. But they make their intentions crystal clear. “Nice grocery store you have here,”<\/em> they would say. “Sure wouldn’t want to see anything happen to it.”<\/em> Similarly, Trump is pretending to be the nice guy, but you damn well better not cross him.<\/p>\n

Of course, Trump is not nearly as good at this as Don Corleone. In fact, it is absurd to present himself as being nice in any capacity. Here is what he’s had to say about McCain just on Twitter:<\/p>\n

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.@SenJohnMcCain<\/a> should be defeated in the primaries. Graduated last in his class at Annapolis–dummy!<\/p>\n

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 16, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n