{"id":46555,"date":"2020-09-04T09:57:19","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T16:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=46555"},"modified":"2020-09-04T09:57:19","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T16:57:19","slug":"trump-insults-heroes-as-losers-and-suckers-and-says-everyone-who-criticizes-him-is-dying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=46555","title":{"rendered":"Trump Insults Heroes as &#8216;Losers&#8217; and &#8216;Suckers&#8217; and Says Everyone Who Criticizes Him is &#8216;Dying&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlantic Magazine just <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2020\/09\/trump-americans-who-died-at-war-are-losers-and-suckers\/615997\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">published a spine-chilling story<\/a><\/strong> about Donald Trump and his abhorrent remarks about America&#8217;s veterans and war dead. <em>&#8220;Why should I go to that cemetery?&#8221;<\/em> Trump is reported to have said. <em>&#8220;It\u2019s filled with losers.\u201d<\/em> He later added that the 1,800 marines who lost their lives at Belleau Wood were <em>\u201csuckers\u201d<\/em> for getting killed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-media-enemy.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33926\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The article was well researched and contained testimony from four sources. It was corroborated by at least three other news organizations. And most of all, it&#8217;s entirely consistent with Trump&#8217;s prior public statements disparaging veterans and POWs, including the late Sen. John McCain. Naturally, Trump quickly denied these reports in terms typical of his substanceless, <em>&#8220;slash and burn&#8221;<\/em> character (or lack thereof):<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Atlantic Magazine is dying, like most magazines, so they make up a fake story in order to gain some relevance. Story already refuted, but this is what we are up against. Just like the Fake Dossier. You fight and and fight, and then people realize it was a total fraud!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1301893907295371266?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 4, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Notice that Trump&#8217;s denial is simply an ad hominem attack on the messenger. That&#8217;s what he always does. He has no coherent defense based on facts or reality, so he goes for the throat with defamatory rhetoric that virtually no one believes, other than his glassy-eyed cult followers. What follows is a brief history of this psychotic, knee-jerk reaction to any critical news that riles Trump:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realdonaldtrump\/status\/1268127974659952642\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Fredo\u2019s ratings<\/a> are down more than 50%. People are tired of his act. @CNN IS <strong>DYING<\/strong>!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realdonaldtrump\/status\/1232434103229640704\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">That is because<\/a> they cover your favorite President relatively well. @CNN &#038; MSDNC are <strong>dying<\/strong> in the ratings!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realdonaldtrump\/status\/1136511992473300992\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The good news<\/a> is that @maddow is <strong>dying<\/strong> in the ratings, along with @CNN!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realdonaldtrump\/status\/920406959320371200\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">So much Fake News<\/a> being put in <strong>dying<\/strong> magazines and newspapers. Only place worse may be @NBCNews, @CBSNews, @ABC and @CNN. Fiction writers!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realdonaldtrump\/status\/766616610975182848\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The reporting<\/a> at the failing @nytimes gets worse and worse by the day. Fortunately, it is a <strong>dying<\/strong> newspaper.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realdonaldtrump\/status\/700320270620454912\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">FoxNews is changing<\/a> their theme from &#8220;fair and balanced&#8221; to &#8220;unfair and unbalanced.&#8221; But <strong>dying<\/strong> @WSJ is worse.Their phony poll is a joke!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realdonaldtrump\/status\/621768615520440321\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Dopey @Lawrence O\u2019Donnell<\/a>, whose unwatchable show is <strong>dying<\/strong> in the ratings, said that my Apprentice $ numbers were wrong. He is a fool!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realdonaldtrump\/status\/615299494339592196\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">NYDailyNews, the <strong>dying<\/strong> tabloid<\/a> owned by dopey clown Mort Zuckerman, puts me on the cover daily because I sell. My honor, but it is dead!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realdonaldtrump\/status\/593755935950118913\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">NicolleDWallace is really hurting<\/a> @TheView. She is boring, predictable and has zero television &#8220;it&#8221; &#8211; show no longer has ratings, <strong>dying<\/strong>!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realdonaldtrump\/status\/493737163746312192\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">LateNightSeth I am not surprised<\/a> that Seth is absolutely <strong>dying<\/strong> in the ratings! He is truly an awkward, mumbling jerk. Too bad!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realdonaldtrump\/status\/281443133567401984\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">VanityFair looks<\/a> like a <strong>dying<\/strong> magazine! Really really boring, really really thin!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If every media enterprise that Trump said was dying actually died there wouldn&#8217;t be anything left but the National Enquirer. Oh wait. That died. Trump knows that there is no defense for what he said, so he resorts to these petulant tantrums in the hopes of persuading some of his dimwitted disciples that he isn&#8217;t a cretinous traitor.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly, that isn&#8217;t working. Trump&#8217;s approval ratings continue to fall, and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=46526\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">he&#8217;s getting crushed by Joe Biden<\/a><\/strong> in every national poll, as well as in most of the crucial swing states. And for the most despicable president in U.S. history, it&#8217;s all downhill from here.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlantic Magazine just published a spine-chilling story about Donald Trump and his abhorrent remarks about America&#8217;s veterans and war dead. &#8220;Why should I go to that cemetery?&#8221; Trump is reported to have said. &#8220;It\u2019s filled with losers.\u201d He later added that the 1,800 marines who lost their lives at Belleau Wood were \u201csuckers\u201d for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,1200,16],"tags":[554,95],"class_list":["post-46555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-politics","category-wankery","tag-donald-trump","tag-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-media-enemy.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-c6T","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":62234,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=62234","url_meta":{"origin":46555,"position":0},"title":"Trump and the GOP Show Their Fear of Veterans By Suing to Make it Harder for Them to Vote","author":"Mark NC","date":"7\/18\/2024","format":false,"excerpt":"The Republican Party has never been particularly interested in democracy. 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