TRUMP CONTINUES TO SHOW THAT HE IS A “NO-CLASS ACT”

…The outstanding actress, Meryl Streep

 

 

Trump’s latest no-class act was the worst one yet. 

 

It was bad enough that Trump is so thin-skinned that he had to Tweet a snide remark about Alec Baldwin’s impression of him on “Saturday Night Live,” calling it “not funny” and saying that SNL “just can’t get any worse.”  And of course he was dead wrong, Baldwin is doing a good job of being a very pompous Trump.

 

He reacted the same to a truthful yet unflattering piece in Vanity Fair by saying that the magazine is “way down, big trouble, dead!” and that its editor has “no talent.”   Yes, he went after one of the premier publications like VF, and he just had to grab his phone and let the insult tweets fly.

 

It was another no-class act, when he went after his replacement on “The Celebrity Apprentice” with a scathing tweet.   Trump was replaced by the former California governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Arnold’s first show had some low Nielsen numbers “by comparison to those of Mr. Donald J. Trump”, and of course he had to also tweet that Schwarzenegger had not supported his campaign.

 

(I would suspect that after all the publicity on Trump’s tweet about Schwarzenegger, now more viewers will want to tune in to see how Arnold does in Donald’s place.)

 

But his latest no-class act was the worst one yet. 

 

On the Golden Globes Award Show, Meryl Streep was receiving the Cecil B. DeMille Award for her lifetime acting achievements.  Streep is probably the most renowned Hollywood actress of all time.  She has been nominated for an academy award 19 times, much more than any other actress or actor.  She has played every possible type of character from a psycho to a housewife to a fashion designer and even a major lead in a well known musical.

 

Streep began her award acceptance speech by apologizing for having lost her voice. She could only speak softly, but her words took a major swipe at Trump’s fragile ego and she didn’t even call him out by name.  But it was obvious to whom she was referring. 

 

Here are the basics of what she said:

 

“There was one performance this year that stunned me,” she said. “It sank its hooks in my heart. Not because it was good. . . . There was nothing good about it. But it was effective, and it did its job. It made its intended audience laugh and show their teeth. It was that moment when the person asking to sit in the most respected seat in our country imitated a disabled reporter. Someone he outranked in privilege, power and the capacity to fight back. It kind of broke my heart when I saw it. And I still can’t get it out of my head because it wasn’t in a movie. It was real life.  This instinct to humiliate, when it’s modeled by someone in the public platform, by someone powerful,” Streep said, “it filters down into everybody’s life, because it kind of gives permission for other people to do the same thing.” 

 

The incident to which she referred took place at a Trump rally in 2015 , when the candidate Trump mocked the New York Times reporter Serge Kovaleski.  Kovaleski has a medical condition that limits the motion of his arms. While denouncing Kovaleski, Trump disgustingly gestured similarly, mocking the way the reporter moves.

 

Of course, Trump the next morning after the award show had to grab his phone and tweet the following: “Meryl Streep, one of the most over-rated actresses in Hollywood, doesn't know me but attacked last night at the Golden Globes. She is a Hillary flunky who lost big.”  he posted this just after 6 AM, then inserting a hyphen into the word, "over-rated."

 

This is all so telling of this no-class, two-bit, reality show habitual liar.

 

Just look at the important items that this thin-skinned individual will soon have to deal with:

 

>>> Trump is threatening to snatch health insurance coverage from millions of Americans.

>>> He intends to give huge tax cuts to corporations and the wealthy.

>>> He says he plans to reverse progress against climate change.

>>> He has said he wants to destabilize the Western alliance and possibly remove the US from NATO.

>>> He wants to pick a fight with China while cuddling up to Russia & Putin.

 

For someone that acts as does this individual, and with the important items on his agenda, don’t you think it would be foolish not to examine the personality and the psychological makeup of the man who will soon be in the White House?

 

These Twitter Rants of his offer a glimpse into Trump’s psyche, and it is certainly not pretty.

 

And the reason I am calling for examining this individual’s psychological makeup, Mr. Trump also shows nothing but high regard for anyone who says anything nice about him.  As an example, he calls our so called enemy, Russian President Vladimir Putin, “very smart” and Trump quotes him approvingly.  This is despite the fact that all the US intelligence officials have stated that Russia actively meddled in the US electoral process.

 

No, Streep won’t be the last to comment on Trump’s performance, but as usual, on her comments, he must have stewed about it all night.

 

What is so interesting is that at last year’s Golden Globes Awards, Donald Trump was seen in attendance and at the time, he remarked how much he like the acting of both Julia Roberts and especially Meryl Streep.  In addition, he was seen and photographed talking and joking with Alec Baldwin.  And just for the record, he was at one time on an amicable first name basis with the New York Times reporter he mocked, Serge Kovaleski.

 

It is frightening for me to think that someone so thin-skinned as Donald Trump can go off half-cocked just because someone states they dislike him or his policies.  What is he going to do if and when a leader of another nation or operation such as ISIS, Iran or North Korea goes after him with scathing accusations?  This man will have the strongest military in the world at his beck and call.  When anyone criticizes Donald J. Trump publicly in a way that threatens his ego, he is compelled to always hit back even harder. He just can’t seem to ignore any kind of personal slight.

 

As it was with all those bullies on the playground, to react like this is a serious weakness, it is not a strength.  And Russia’s Putin and other world leaders have obviously figured out.

 

God help us all.

 

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