Donald Trump, pitiful cry-baby: The GOP nominee plans to whine his way to the White House

[Judi Lynn]

Saturday, Jun 4, 2016 03:30 PM CDT
Donald Trump, pitiful cry-baby: The GOP nominee plans to whine his way to the White House
Eric Boehlert, Media Matters

That was quite a temper tantrum Donald Trump threw at his press conference this week.


Irked that news reports raised questions about his promised donations to American veterans and their charities, Trump responded by denouncing the political press as “disgusting” and “among the most dishonest people that I’ve ever met.” Trump even dismissed one ABC News reporter as “a sleaze,” and mocked another from CNN as “a real beauty.”

Trash talking the press is hardly new for Trump. During the primary season, he routinely set aside time at rallies to denigrate journalists as “scum” and “disgusting”; attacks his supporters often amplified in person and online.

What made Trump’s meltdown this week so noteworthy, and probably what shocked the Beltway media, was that it came during the general election campaign season, where these kinds of vicious, personal attacks coming directly from the presumptive nominee are unheard of.

“Mr. Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, assailed those reporting on his candidacy with a level of venom rarely seen at all, let alone in public, from the standard-bearer of a major political party,” The New York Times reported. (GOP media bashing is most often handled by surrogates and by Republican allies in the press.)

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[Zambero]

1. Chris Matthews came up with a good one today

Saying that it appeared that Trump was trying to insult his way into the White House, by dissing every demographic possible with the exception of whites, who would therefore vote for him in larger numbers. The theory was floated that Trump has been laying the groundwork for this campaign scheme going back to the birther crap he "championed" a few years back. The polling data indicates that Trump is doing better than Romney with non-college educated whites, but faring much worse (neck and neck) with college educated whites. If that amounts to a "wash", then doing worse than Romney with Latino voters based on his multiple stupid remarks should seal his fate.