A President Who Hates Half The Country Doesn't Get to Call For 'Unity'

[DonViejo]

A wave of bomb threats against prominent Democrats has exposed just how incapable Donald Trump is to handle the demands of his job.

Michael Tomasky
10.25.18 11:10 AM ET

Donald Trump calling for unity, eh? That’s like Ted Nugent calling for restraint, either in rhetoric or on lead guitar; or Harvey Weinstein calling for equal treatment of women; or the guy who painted that painting of Trump and Ronald Reagan playing poker demanding taste.

I’ve cringed in these last few hours to hear journalists on TV or radio discussing Trump’s appeal for magnanimity last night in Wisconsin as if we’re supposed to take it seriously. Are they kidding? Yes, they are words the president spoke, and so they have to be reported. But they don’t have to be discussed earnestly. They need and deserve to be discussed derisively and placed in the real-life context they merit.

We know nothing about who this bomber is and what motivated him or her to, it seems, send explosive devices to the Obamas, Clinton, Eric Holder, CNN, Maxine Waters, George Soros, Joe Biden and Robert DeNiro. There’s a chance it has nothing to do with Trump. Yes, there is. There’s even a chance that right-wingers are correct and this is a so-called “false flag” — a liberal ratfucking operation. We don’t know.

But here’s what we do know. Bombs or no bombs, Trump has sent our discourse into the toilet. He has spent years mocking people. Not two years or three years. Forty. It just didn’t matter back when he was a garden-variety arrogant rich guy.

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[PJMcK]

1. It's more than half the country that hates Trump (n/t)

[Solly Mack]

2. Trump calling for unity is a joke. A joke in very poor taste.

The only unity Trump wants is for everyone to like him or at least pretend they like him and to kiss his ass.

He's not getting that so he attacks and will continue to attack.