Perez fires back at Trump: I'll be your worst nightmare

[highplainsdem]

Source: The Hill

Tom Perez fired back at President Trump on Saturday after the president offered the newly elected Democratic National Committee (DNC) chairman a mock-congratulatory tweet.

"Call me Tom. And don't get too happy," tweeted Perez, the former Labor secretary during the Obama administration.

Perez added that Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), his primary rival for the DNC position that he appointed his deputy, would join other Democrats in being Trump's "worst nightmare."

[div class="exceerpt"] Call me Tom. And don't get too happy. @keithellison and I, and Democrats united across the country, will be your worst nightmare. https://t.co/fu7WvLofrD
— Tom Perez (@TomPerez) February 25, 2017

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Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/321208-perez-fires-back-at-trump-dont-get-too-happy-we-will-be-your

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This is the snarky Trump tweet he was responding to:

Link to tweet

Congratulations to Thomas Perez, who has just been named Chairman of the DNC. I could not be happier for him, or for the Republican Party!

[elleng]

1. Swell, let's just tweet the world away.

[Glamrock]

2. Could the asshole in chief

have any less tact, grace, or dignity? That fucker's like school in the summertime......no class. (Hat tip to the Fat Albert show)

[George II]

8. The first half of your second sentence is correct....

"That fucker's like school in the summertime", but in a different sense - all the failures have to repeat their classes in summer school.

[Glamrock]

13. You obviously didn't grow up watching Fat Albert...

[Still In Wisconsin]

17. Heeeey heeeey heeeeey....

It's Faaaaaaaaaat Albert!

[Dave Starsky]

25. The biggest casualty for me of the Cosby scandal...

Is that it has destroyed my childhood memories of Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids. I loved that show. I never missed a single episode.

[Glamrock]

30. Yeah man, tell me about it.

I loved Bill Cosby. I still own two or three record albums of his. Saw him live. I've never laughed so hard in my life. I was in physical pain when the show ended. The muscles at the base of my skull hurt (directly behind the ears) which caused a headache, my face muscles hurt, and my abs were wrecked. What an incredible talent. Alas, I can't even listen to those records anymore. Nor watch Fat Albert. Nor the Cosby show. Fucking asshole. Why man, why? He could have had anyone he wanted. He was rich, powerful, famous... I just don't understand. I'm the type of dude that's not interested in a woman unless she's interested in me. I don't need to lie, get them drunk, drug them. And I don't have what he had. Fucking asshole.

[Dave Starsky]

31. That whole mindset is completely alien to me, too.

I don't think we can ever understand it.

Same thing with Donald Trump. No, Dick Bag, that is NOT "locker room talk". In any locker room I've ever been in, if some dude was mouthing off about grabbing women's pussies or getting them drunk to have sex with them, that shit would be shut down immediately. That asshole would be lucky to walk out of there with all of his teeth.

[Glamrock]

32. Exactly!

Apparently, you and I were lucky enough to be raised by strong women. I've always treated women as I'd want to be treated. It's just who I am. I almost feel sorry for douchebags like Trump. They miss out on so much, you know, not being able to have adult relationships with the fairer sex. It must suck to be so empty inside.

[bluecollar2]

22. I went to summer school

And it wasn't to take classes I had failed in but rather to take classes I wouldn't normally have had the opportunity to take...


Graduated on schedule...

[Dave Starsky]

26. Summer school's a great place for lower-division...

core requirements and prerequisites. Get that shit out of the way during the summer so you can focus on classes you care about during the regular school year.

I always took as many classes as I could during the summer. I suppose if I'd had a girlfriend, I might have felt differently.

[DK504]

20. That WAS his attempt at humility and tact.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Trump has no respect for anything

No sense of fair play. Time was parties competed, respected one another,
and allowed each other space to be the Americans they wanted to be.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. tRump respects a dollar and his reflection and Putin. . . nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. Other Presidents are noted for their "charm offensives". tRump has a Snark Offensive, perpetually.nt

[heaven05]

5. I hope

[yuiyoshida]

7. This PRESIDENT Embraces the fact that HIS party has won and that HE ONLY WORKS

FOR his Party members. No OTHER President in History ever worked JUST for his party and excluded the other side. A President is supposed to work for All sides, but not Trump. If Republicans had their way, there would only ever be JUST ONE party. Their party.

[WheelWalker]

10. I approve of Tom's message. Face the danger. Engage. No retreat. No surrender.

[flamingdem]

11. Go Tom!

[barbtries]

12. i am 61 years old.

i never thought in my lifetime i would be living with a president like this. and i have despised all of the republican presidents in my living memory. each one worse than the last, or so i thought, and yet here we are.

i like Perez's fighting tweet. we need lots of energy, lots and lots of it. everything we hold dear is at risk.

[Plucketeer]

19. I just turned 72

I voluntarily went into Vietnam to see if war was a glorious as portrayed by Hollywood. It wasn't. Perez's attitude is better than DWS' was, but this party needs a GENUINE "new direction" - not one that's just a new dressing on the same salad!

[bluecollar2]

23. amen...

[barbtries]

35. then we all need to jump in and make it happen

i just joined Durham Democratic Women here in Durham NC. This group has been around for ages, the membership primarily older white women, in a liberal city that is truly diverse. They WANT the new blood, the young blood, people of color, different creeds, sexuality/gender. And because they do represent kind of the old guard of the democratic party, they need to be part of the conversation. They know how the wheels turn. They know how to organize. A huge coalition of many groups coming together can and will change the face of the democratic party, and the populace is ripe for this change.

Thank you for your service. As i said to a more recent veteran, but i wish these endless wars would stop.

[ProudProgressiveNow]

14. K&R nt

[irisblue]

15. the MFer was implied. I like this clapback to trump.

[Yavin4]

16. Bad move Tom. Bad move.

Don't let Trump taunt you. Your job is to go after congressional Republicans, not Trump. Ignore him.

[PSPS]

18. You're precisely right.

[Cha]

21. No it's not... it's true Perez is not going to chickenshit around trump

[JustAnotherGen]

24. Yep - and

Responding let Trump know he needs to STFU, butt out, and take the punishment. Perez just told us - we don't have to show one iota of respect to the Republican party (Trump is the leader) while he's in charge of VA, NJ and the 2018 midterms.

[Yavin4]

34. Dems cannot do anything about Trump until they have control of the congress.

What good does it do to get into a twitter war with him?

[leftofcool]

27. Would it have been okay if Bernie had said it?

[Yavin4]

33. No. It wouldn't. Every elected Dem needs to frame their opposition to Trump

as opposition to the Republicans in congress. Every response to Trump should be re-directed to Republicans. Hang Trump around the necks of the Republicans in congress.

[Hen House]

28. "Trump wakes up drinking poison and spitting bile" -- Anon on Twitter

[Sunlei]

29. quit trying to create DU posts as wishing death on ANYONE, thank you.