Here are some of the reasons why ‘Lion King’ Donald Trump is nothing but a ‘Wussy King.’
1. Bone spurs
This is the first one, the oldest one, and probably the worst one of all. He came out of military school right in the middle of the Vietnam build-up, a healthy young man in his prime and already trained. Other brave young men were enlisting, putting their training to use in service of their country – in other words, showing their patriotism.
Not Donald Trump.
As the other graduates were gathering to go fight for their country they called on Trump: "Come on, Donald, we're all going to sign up."
"You bet," said Trump. "Here I come. Owww, owww, my foot! I'm sorry, guys, you go ahead without me. I'll catch up as soon as my bone spurs heal."
BONE SPURS?
Among the many stories that came out of World War II were tales of wounded soldiers recuperating in hospitals behind the lines who snuck out of their beds to return to their buddies fighting on the front. One such incident was dramatized in the mini-series “Band of Brothers” in a graphic and tragic fashion.
Such was not the case with Trump. He had a golden opportunity to prove his manhood and love of America out on the battlefield, but he said he wasn’t able. His feet hurt. HIS FEET HURT!
Funny how those bone spurs didn't stop him from partying hearty and bedding all the beautiful women his money could buy.
Did I say partying? How dare I! According to Donald he wasn’t dodging the war, he was risking his life on the battlefield of sex. Check out this clip from the Howard Stern show in 1997:
Ahh, the adventures young Donald lived, dicing with death in the most exclusive discos and high-end brothels; the ballads his sacrifices inspired. Sing it with me, children:
While brave young men
Were fightin' and dyin'
Donald J Trump
Was layin' and lyin'
(Now a harmonica riff, please)
It's understandable why Trump should be afraid to go to Vietnam. We were all afraid back then. That could even be forgiven if he would own up to it.
But Donald will never do that, will he? .Just the opposite. Ever since then he's never stopped telling everybody how tough he is, how brave he is, how he doesn't fear anything in the world.
What a wussy.
2. Ducking when a protester charged the stage at a rally
This took place at an Ohio rally back in March.
Ironically one thing the clip doesn’t show is that just before the incident Trump had been heckling a protestor who was being escorted out:
“Get him out of here folks! Why is he angry? I’m just saying we’re going to make good trade deals. Go back home to mommy. This guy looks like he’s 15 years old. Take him back home to mom; she’ll lock him in his bedroom.”
The clip shows what happened next. You’ve seen all the movies where a bad guy jumps in out of nowhere and the hero instinctively springs into action to stop him.
Not Donald Trump.
Watch as the tough guy who never stops talking for anything is suddenly struck dumb when a stranger starts a scuffle off stage
You might be able to excuse that as understandable except for one thing. After armed men had taken charge and cleared up the situation he carefully ventured back to the lectern. A stand-up guy would have been humbly thanking his security team for their alertness and bravery.
And Donald did, later. But first he started bragging about how tough he was, how he didn’t even need protection, that he could have taken care of everything alone, thank you.
“I was ready for him but it's much easier if the cops do it.”
After months of bragging about how fearless he is Trump finally gets a chance to prove it and what happens. Suddenly he becomes Mr. Duck and Cover. Then after the danger passes he goes right back into braggart mode without even a hint of embarrassment. He couldn’t help himself. It was automatic.
“I didn’t really need the Secret Service but I let them take care of it because I’m lazy.” Not his exact words, but that’s what it meant.
That cheap boasting was not some heat of the moment slip-up, either. He repeated it the next day in Kansas:
I was ready. I don't know if I would have done well but I would have been out there fighting, folks.
Fifty years since he ducked out of danger in Vietnam and he hasn’t changed a bit.
What a wussy.
3. Canceling his University of Chicago rally
So we saw how tough Trump is when he is caught by surprise. How about when he gets advance warning? We found out only a day earlier when he cancelled a rally in Chicago because of protestors.
The same man who two days later was telling everybody he was ready to fight at a moment’s notice, saw a fight coming and ran away. Excuse me, I mean he didn’t deliberately choose to run. According to his official statement he was ordered to:
Mr. Trump just arrived in Chicago and after meeting with law enforcement has determined that for the safety of all of the tens of thousands of people that have gathered in and around the arena, tonight's rally will be postponed to another date
The rough and tumble brawler was all set to duke it out with those thugs only the police wouldn’t let him. Except, of course, it turned out the police had nothing to do with the cancellation:
Anthony Guglielmi, a police department spokesman, said the Trump campaign did not consult the police department before canceling.
"They did not consult us at all," he said. "The decision was made by the campaign on its own."
No surprise there. Another of the hallmarks of professional wussies is that they always have an excuse, it’s not their fault. It’s not that they are not afraid. They just aren’t able to fight at this particular moment, that’s all.
Put this incident together with the one before it and then show them to any group of grade school and they will all say the same thing.
What a wussy.
4. Praising Vladimir Putin
This one seems bizarre, to me and it literally goes back years. Here are just a few quotes:
Look at Putin -- what he's doing with Russia -- I mean, you know, what's going on over there. I mean this guy has done -- whether you like him or don't like him -- he's doing a great job in rebuilding the image of Russia and also rebuilding Russia period. (2007)
I think the biggest thing we have is that we were on '60 Minutes' together and we had fantastic ratings. One of your best-rated shows in a long time. So that was good, right? So we were stable mates. (2015)
Why do I have to get tough on Putin? I don't know anything other than that he doesn't respect our country. (2016)
President of Russia Vladimir Putin is what any true Republican would call a bad guy. He’s a dictator who rules the press in his country, imprisons dissenters, challenges the United States constantly throughout the world and openly gives aid and comfort to our enemies such as Bashar al-Assad.
Yet Donald consistently praises him, says he is a better president than our own twice democratically elected Obama.
I grew up hearing the endlessly-repeated line that Democrats were soft on Communism. You weren’t supposed to praise the leader of the evil Russian empire, you were supposed to fight against him. If anyone had talked like Trump back then Republicans would have been trying him for treason.
My, how times have changed. Just look at how Donald was talking in the debates. After earlier asking Russia to show us Hillary’s emails, in the first debate he was telling everybody not to accuse Russia of being behind our recent cyber attacks:
It could also be lots of other people. It also could be somebody sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds, OK?
By the time of the third debate the government had made it official. The Russians were behind it. Rather than back down Trump doubled down. When Hillary cited the recent reports he insisted on arguing with her:
Trump: She has no idea whether it is Russia, China or anybody else.
Clinton: I am not quoting myself.
Trump: You have no idea.
Clinton: I am quoting 17, 17 -- do you doubt?
Trump: Our country has no idea.
Clinton: Our military and civilian -
Trump: Yeah, I doubt it, I doubt it.
Donald wasn’t just disputing Hillary. He was spitting in the face of our country’s whole intelligence community, and all live on national television.
It seems Vlad the Prevailor has a new soul mate, Donald the Enabler.
We keep hearing all these claims that Trump is in hock to Russia, that Putin has some kind of hold over him. I’ve always dismissed that as routine conspiracy talk, but the fact is the Donald has never missed an opportunity to NOT condemn the Vladimir. It does make one wonder.
Whatever the reason. Mr. Trump has definitely shown that he has no stomach for a confrontation with Mr. Putin.
What a wussy.
5. Running from Megyn Kelly
This one seems to have become lost in the endless maze of Trump’s missteps. During the first Republican debate Kelly asked Trump a medium-tough question:
Your Twitter account has several disparaging comments about women’s looks. You once told a contestant on Celebrity Apprentice it would be a pretty picture to see her on her knees. Does that sound to you like the temperament of a man we should elect as president, and how will you answer the charge from Hillary Clinton, who was likely to be the Democratic nominee, that you are part of the war on women?
He gave one of his typical rambling semi-coherent answers. Here’s part of it:
I think the big problem this country has is being politically correct . . . .
And frankly, what I say, and oftentimes it’s fun, it’s kidding. We have a good time. What I say is what I say. And honestly Megyn, if you don’t like it, I’m sorry. I’ve been very nice to you, although I could probably maybe not be, based on the way you have treated me. But I wouldn’t do that.
The toughest man in all the world, the greatest leader in the history of America found himself stymied by a mere woman, flummoxed by an obvious question, one that everyone knew was coming sooner or later. He promises to take Mexico, China and Iran to school and he can’t even handle a sort-of-journalist from a fake news network on basic cable.
Of course in the next few days Mr. ‘I wouldn’t do that’ got busy doing that. He couldn’t help himself. It was automatic. This is from the infamous Don Lemon phone interview:
She gets out and she starts asking me all sorts of ridiculous questions. You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever. In my opinion, she was off base."
That’s only a sample. The New York Times Trump twitter insult list has 38 entries for Kelly. And that’s just the tweets.
The good news for Trump is he got a second chance. The 7th debate was back on Fox News. Now he could show Megyn Kelly and all the other doubters how a master class deal artist handles troublemakers. That’s what a real man would do, isn’t it?
That may be what a real man would do, but that’s not what Donald does. Two days before the debate his campaign manager made the announcement:
He will not be participating in the Fox News debate on Thursday.
When the going gets tough Trump heads for the hills.
Question: What is President Trump’s worst nightmare?
Answer: Vladimir Putin appointing Megyn Kelly as his chief negotiator.
What a wussy.
6. Refusing to release his tax returns
“I’m the richest guy in the world.” That’s now what he actually says, of course, but that’s how he comes across.
Now if there is one thing we know about Donald, it’s that he loves to show off. If Trump were really worth as much as he claims he would be rushing to prove it with as much documentation as he could find: tax returns, cancelled checks, receipts for yachts and mansions, and more. He would be burying us with paperwork.
Instead Donald says he can’t release any records because he is being audited. The Capo de tough guys is scared of the IRS.
“They’re so strong, so powerful, and I’m so weak. I would love to show you my returns, believe me, believe me, but those big bullies at the Internal Revenue Service won’t let me.”
Never mind that the IRS issued a statement that Trump is free to release any tax records he wants. Even worse, as Lawrence O’Donnell pointed out, we don’t even know if he is really being audited. The IRS has never said he was. That might just be another in his endless series of lies.
The few pages we can get hold of show a loss of nearly a billion dollars. When some commenters suggest that his losses were so large he could have skipped paying taxes for 18 years, Trump does not even bother to deny it.
It couldn't be more obvious to me. Mr. Gottrocks is nowhere near as successful as he claims to be. I believe all these years Donald has been selling a string of Brooklyn Bridges to New York, Atlantic City, and now the whole nation.
Trump could prove how rich and smart he is in 5 minutes by releasing the returns that show the big profits he says he’s been making. And yet he doesn't. He’d rather let a nobody like me make fun of him.
What a wussy.
7. the Purple Heart
This one has got to cut deep into anyone who ever actually shed his own blood in our country’s defense.
Look at the picture of Trump up on the stage holding a Purple Heart a war veteran gave to him.
You know something very nice just happened to me. A man came up to me and he handed me his Purple Heart. He said, 'that's my real Purple Heart I have such confidence in you.' And I said, 'Man that's like big stuff. I've always wanted to get the real Purple Heart.' This was much easier.
Let’s ask Humayan Khan about that. He’s the soldier whose mother and father Trump spent a week insulting after they supported Hillary at the Democratic convention. Wait a minute, you can’t ask him. He died in battle, sacrificing his own life to save the lives of his fellow soldiers.
No Purple Heart for him, nor should there be, eh, Donald? You don’t like guys who get captured when their planes are shot out of the sky or guys who get blown up on the battlefield by the enemy. Losers. You like guys who get away clean without getting hurt. There are your winners for you.
What a perfect capstone for Trump’s ‘military career’. Fifty years ago his feet were too sore for him to fight. Now, fifty years later, he manages to get a medal anyway, the easy way, as a gift from someone who did the fighting in his place. Maybe money really can buy you anything. Trump seems to think so, and apparently the people voting for him have no problem with that.
8. Refusing to address black crowds
Donald brags endlessly about the ‘huuuge crowds of people’ who show up at his events. Yes, huge crowds of white people. Bear in mind that his organizers screen everybody that arrives. They won’t let you in unless you swear you love Trump first. That means the almost all whites audience is not an accident.
Look at him defending the supporter who sucker-punched a black man at one of his rallies, offering to pay his legal expenses.
Look at him bypassing black neighborhoods to lecture African-Americans voters in the middle of white crowds.
Look at that ‘Blacks for Trump’ sign held up by a white woman.
Again, the almost all whites audience is not an accident. It’s the way Trump wants it.
In September he finally took a chance with a stage-managed appearance at Great Faith Ministries International in Detroit, backed up by Ben Carson and others. After he managed not to mess that up he decided to go it alone in a non-stage-managed appearance at a church in Flint a week and a half later. As Trump likes to say, “Not so good.”
Let me paraphrase that for you
"Behave yourself, Mr. Trump!"
"Yes, ma'am."
As Trump likes to say, “Not so good.”
What a singular moment that was. Have you ever seen Donald back down like that anywhere else? It seems Trump the Mighty is like a lot of other old white men - afraid of black people.
Naturally, after he was safely back home the next day he started singing a different tune. He couldn’t help himself. It was automatic. He immediately called in to Fox and Friends to complain that he was ambushed:
"I noticed she was so nervous when she introduced me. When she got up to introduce me she was so nervous, she was shaking. I said, wow, this is kind of strange .And then she came up. So she had that in mind, there's no question about it.”
Of course a reporter who was there told a whole different story. Well, what are you gonna believe?
Believe that Trump is wussy, that’s what.
9. Threatening to leave if he doesn’t get a red carpet
When President Obama was went to China in September for the G20 summit he got snubbed at the airport. There was no fancy staircase waiting for him.
Obama simply got out of the plane by himself, without any help from bowing and scraping flunkies. He ignored China’s insults, went on to the negotiating room and came back with a historic agreement on climate change. You all remember global warming, the coming E.L.E. threat to the entire planet? That little thing?
That’s how world leaders do things.
Not Donald Trump.
This one kind of sums it all up. Trump admits he won’t face up to any foreign country that doesn’t give him the royal treatment. Those weren’t his actual words, of course, but that’s what it means.
“I’m outtahere” is Mr. Presidential’s response. “No trade agreements, no nuclear arms deals, no nothing unless I get a great big beautiful red carpet lined on both sides with men covered in gold braid saluting me as I walk down. All that other stuff – fixing trade, creating jobs, preventing wars – all of that can just wait until I get the royal treatment I deserve.”
So now any world leaders dealing with Trump know how to shut him down anytime they want. Just fail to bow to him one time and negotiations are over.
What a way to handle our country’s vital international business.
What a wussy.
10. Blaming Hillary for birtherism
Yet another bizarre moment in a long campaign of bizarre moments:
After more than 5 years of beating the birther drum loud and hard Trump wusses out and admits birtherism was a hoax. Then he outwusses his own self and says it was never his doing, it was all Hillary’s fault. All of that in only 30 seconds, too. A record for the Donald!
Look at the way he makes his great pronouncement. Look at the sneer on his face and listen to the sneer in his voice. It's like he was blaming us for it, not himself, that the whole thing was all our fault, not his, that we shouldn't have been paying attention to what he spent years saying before.
For a proper takedown of the Weasel Master take a look at Stephen Colbert’s September 20 broadcast:
Lord God in heaven above, what a wussy.
Bonus: Many people are saying
Trump tells it like it is? How about never! Every thing he says, every speech he makes is riddled with weasel words, weasel phrases, whole weasel sentences.
“People are saying it.” “A reliable source told me.” “I was told by someone who knows.” “Maybe it’s true, I don’t know.” “I was kidding.” “That’s not what I said.” “I was being sarcastic.” “I didn’t say that.” “That’s not what I meant.” “It was just locker room talk.”
He sounds more like a lawyer than a businessman, and not a good lawyer, either. People like to criticize Clinton for being too lawyerly. That may or may not be true, but at least she sounds smart when she’s doing it. Trump sounds like everybody’s worst nightmare of a weaselly shyster. We can add ‘Weasel King’ to his many titles.
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Let me sum it up for you. Donald Trump is the king of all wussies.
They say God sees all things and knows all things, past present and future. I believe when He created the first wussy six thousand years ago He had an image of Donald Trump in his mind.
America has a clear choice to make. We can elect the first woman president, or we can elect the first wussy president.
Like I said, America has a clear choice.
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