"Trump doesn't hit 10 times harder. He simply hits below the belt"
Not content to just argue with a critic, Trump returned to his longstanding practice of flinging mud at everyone and anyone who dares to question the limits of his authority. Or, as The Baltimore Sun put it in a scathing editorial last night, "This is a president who will happily debase himself at the slightest provocation."
It's in line with his approach to always hit back "ten times harder" -- a theme that first lady Melania Trump spoke proudly of at the 2016 Republican National Convention.
But, in reality, Trump doesn't hit 10 times harder. He simply hits below the belt, undermining the integrity of the office he holds. Earlier this month, he brought his bigotry to bear against four female, non-white members of Congress, telling them to "go back" to whatever country they came from, even though all are US citizens and three are native born. Predictably, Trump loyalists took up the sentiment at his next rally, chanting "send her back" like a crowd of haters who were ready to chase their supposed opponents out of the United States.
Shocking as it may be to hear a president echoing language used by American nativists and the Nazis, it is more shocking still to recognize that this is nothing new. This is the same President who called protesting football players "sons of bitches" and has directed hatred at immigrants for years. Let's remember, too, that Trump found "very fine people" among the neo-Nazis who marched in Charlottesville and who, for many years before he was elected, led the racist campaign to declare then-President Barack Obama illegitimate because he falsely claimed Obama was foreign born (a claim he only disavowed years later.)
https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/28/opinions/donald-trump-elijah-cummings-twitter-low-dantonio/index.html
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