{"id":42365,"date":"2019-08-02T13:12:38","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T20:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=42365"},"modified":"2019-08-02T13:34:44","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T20:34:44","slug":"srsly-trump-bot-on-fox-news-says-i-dont-remember-us-electing-an-angry-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=42365","title":{"rendered":"SRSLY? Trump-Bot on Fox News Says ‘I Don’t Remember Us Electing an Angry President’"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few weeks ago Donald Trump whined<\/a><\/strong> about his State TV network (aka Fox News) hosting a couple of town halls with Democratic presidential candidates, saying that “Something strange is going on at Fox, folks.”<\/em> It might have been a little strange, except for the fact that Fox predictably used the appearances to disparage them in every segment that followed.<\/p>\n

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However, Trump is probably over that momentary episode of angst now that he can see Fox faithfully fulfilling its mission to exalt him and brazenly lie on his behalf. Fox’s overt adoration of Trump was displayed in yet another staged “interview”<\/em> of one of their stable of Trump-fluffing contributors. This time it was frequent Fox shill, and disgraced, ousted GOP House Speaker, Newt Gingrich. In a segment about the recently broadcast Democratic debates, Fox called on Gingrich to provide his relentlessly partisan analysis. And his opinion of where the Democrats are going wrong couldn’t have been more asinine (video below)<\/em>:<\/p>\n

Gingrich:<\/strong> It was amazing the level of anger you got out of Bernie Sanders and Sen. Warren. I mean, these are really angry people and it was kind of amazing to watch them. It’s the opposite of how people normally win the presidency. You watch Barack Obama with a big smile. You watch Ronald Reagan with a big smile. I don’t remember us electing an angry president literally in my lifetime.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Newt Gingrich is either suffering from a severe case of selective amnesia, or he is deliberately peddling some of the most ludicrous lies ever told on Fox News. First of all, while Sanders and Warren (and all decent human beings) are often noticeably upset with the abhorrent words and deeds of Trump, they were also hopeful and positive and bearing bright smiles.<\/p>\n

More to the point, while Gingrich’s “amazement”<\/em> that Democrats are “really angry”<\/em> fails to put their mood in context to the horror of Trumpism, his inability to recall the election of an angry president is downright delusional. Donald Trump is America’s ranking rage-aholic. He has a temperament range that runs from outrage to fury. The only time that he isn’t in the midst of a frothing tirade is when he’s stroking his own bloated ego.<\/p>\n

Trump uses his anger mainly to malign his critics. He routinely taunts them as “stupid, ugly,”<\/em> or other similarly infantile insults. His rants are purposely intended to incite hatred, division, and distrust among otherwise united citizens. And yet he has the audacity to charge that “The rage filled Democrat Party is trying to tear America apart.”<\/em> He recently retweeted a meme<\/a><\/strong> that said that “Democrats are the true enemies of America.”<\/em> Nah, he aint angry at all, is he?<\/p>\n

So Gingrich can’t remember the election of an angry president even though the current one that he obediently reveres is a seething cauldron of bile and hostility. And despite Gingrich’s blindness to Trump’s acid acrimony, Trump himself regards it as an asset:<\/p>\n

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Many people are now saying I won South Carolina because of the last debate. I showed anger and the people of our country are very angry!<\/p>\n

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 22, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n