It struck me as odd phrasing but I couldn’t quite identify why. I guess it’s primarily the limited vocabulary which forces him into a one-size-fits-all mode when it comes to describing the world…
Trump’s thinking makes sense. The problem is that he often does not choose his words carefully and has therefore reduced the meaning of a term like “loser,” which he has assigned rather liberally to political opponents such as Ted Cruz, Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio, and to foils in the media, including CNN, Politico, the New York Daily News, Graydon Carter, Bill Kristol and S.E. Cupp.
In The Donald’s simple, black & white, one-dimensional universe, winner-loser are the only terms you need. Nuance is superfluous. ALL that matters to him is that he is a Winner. The way for him to feel like a Winner is to label others “Losers.” He doesn’t **need **any more words. Those two words are plenty. It really is that simple.
When you were a kid, did you ever play “King of the Mountain”? A bunch of you crawl on top of a big rock, or pile of dirt, or (until summarily forbidden) the hood of someone’s car. The idea is to knock everyone else off, and keep them from reascending by pushing, kicking, shoving, tripping, or whatever means necessary. THAT is Donald Trump’s life. Only people officially on the sidelines and “out of the game” are exempt from this competition. Right now, that’s his family. Republican leadership is currently exempt, because they are not confronting him. If someone steps into his path, moving to a position where they seem to be in competition/entering the game (i.e., Cruz, CNN, Comey), they immediately become losers. Donald must be King of the Mountain, just like an ordinary 7-year old boy.
See how that works? I believe you can apply this simple template across Trump World.
ETA. It isn’t about “hurting someone’s feelings” (I know that was meant somewhat facetiously). Trump has no sense of other people’s feelings, good or bad. It’s only and always about HIS feelings. He must FEEL like a Winner. He doesn’t have to BE a Winner; he has to feel like one. He has the emotional maturity of a pre-schooler.
Can we be done with the fun? I’m tired of all this funning. I want a president who can speak in full sentences and show basic courtesy to visitors like a big boy or girl.
That’s the pool of people to occupy all of the currently unstaffed government positions that the Trump Administration has yet to fill because they’re spending all of their time infighting and going back and forth between DC and Mar-A-Lago.
I’m as anti-Trump as the next guy, but that one really looks like she was moving her hand to brush her hair out of her face just as he reached for her hand.
You joke, but just a day ago he deliberately didn’t use that phrase in a speech. And then immediately after we have an attack. Obviously we need a government official whose only role is to use the phrase “radical islamic terrorism” at least once a day. That’ll prevent any more of these kind of attacks.
