New Trump tweet. Reads like something from a petulant 14 yr old:

[Kingofalldems]

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/777284744253812740

'Never met but never liked dopey Robert Gates. Look at the mess the US is in. Always speaks badly of his many bosses, including Obama.'

[malaise]

1. Gates tore him a new one

See with the Con

[Kingofalldems]

2. Saw that. This is actually the 2nd tweet

from Trump going after Gates. Must have hit him hard.

[Egnever]

3. Wow Gates reamed him

A thin-skinned, temperamental, shoot-from-the-hip and lip, uninformed commander in chief is too great a risk for America."

Gates called Trump too "willfully ignorant about the rest of the world" to be commander in chief.

At least on national security, I believe Mr. Trump is beyond repair. He is stubbornly uninformed about the world and how to lead our country and government, and temperamentally unsuited to lead our men and women in uniform," Gates wrote. "He is unqualified and unfit to be commander in chief."

Ouch!

No wonder Cheeto jesus is in a snit.

[malaise]

5. "willfully ignorant about the rest of the world"

Too good

[Oldem]

26. Yeah.

Ignorance) is a great trait for a president. Being ignorant and intent on remaining so is far worse.

T-rump has said that he is his own chief consultant on foreign affairs and TV news shows, like MTP, is his main source of news. He's not simply intent on ignorance; he flaunts it. Lester Holt or Mrs. Clinton must, simply must, ask him pointed questions about his foreign policy, especially the inevitable conflicts of interest he'd face with his crooked business cronies abroad. Then, they have to educate him, and the audience, on what a blind trust actually is.

[Sunny05]

4. How does he have any supporters? / Importance of education

Indeed, his tweet reads like an early adolescent rant. And then there are the many hypocrisies of his responses to HRC's basket comment, many of which are well-represented in this one tweet.

This election season is an unbelievable nightmare. And it gives us many, many reasons to elevate EDUCATION and education policy to TOP priority at all levels of government. Indeed, djt's side of campaign/election year is about race (Paul Krugman and many others), dominance politics (Josh Marshall of TPM), and the flinging of b.s. (Jane Goodall, more or less, and many, many, many others). But if this nation had better educated people (on average, overall, not meaning this about everyone), we wouldn't be in this mess.

[malaise]

6. To be kind - he's not a well person

Indeed he's a raving racist and a narcissistic lunatic - and that's barely touching the surface.

Welcome to DU

[Sunny05]

22. Thank you for the welcome. Glad to be here. n/t

[Sunny05]

23. Oh, and your graphic and signature line -- awesome. n/t

[malaise]

24. A great DUer posted the quotation and I told her I was

stealing it.

[Sunny05]

25. 😊 Good deal. 😄 (n/t)

[Jade Fox]

27. Education - yes.....

In addition to poor education, so many Americans have been raised on the culture of sound bite journalism per Fox News: Attacks and innuendos being passed off as facts.

[greymattermom]

7. Why is Trump obsessed with whether or not he has met someone?

I've never met Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton, but I understand what they did and plan to do to help the country progress.

[Wellstone ruled]

8. Amzing how the 14 year old reference fits.

Just saw the two fourteen year old boys across the street go at each other with their mouths. Holy crap,the one young fellow sounded like the Con Job with his bully tactics. What really won the day was,the other young man stood his ground and when the bully was done with verbal crap,the young man turned and walked away saying,you are not my friend anymore,and walked home just shaking his head in total amazement.

This what our media needs to do,just walk away.

[malaise]

9. The media have been too busy counting the profits of this nightmare

They will learn the hard way

[Wellstone ruled]

10. Latest media polling is not looking to darn

good news media. Latest numbers from Neilson do not look good some 32% in favor,that sucks. Edward R. Murrow is turning in his grave,if that is possible.

[Boomerproud]

11. Murrow is screaming from the other side.

"What is wrong with you! What have you become? Was the bar set THAT high?"

[malaise]

13. Sadly the business school model has infected every department and center

in the universities and colleges of our planet. We have the equivalent of Wall Street junkies posing as journalists. And the producers enforce the interests of the corporate owners of said media.
It's hard to watch.

[Wellstone ruled]

16. So true!!

[moonscape]

12. Hilarious response to this tweet from Jon Favreau:

Jon Favreau ?@jonfavs 41m41 minutes ago
@realDonaldTrump don't listen to Steve and KellyAnne, dude, this is what got you here. Let you be you. Your tweets will set you free!

[malaise]

15. +1,000

[gollygee]

14. As a parent of a sometimes petulant 14-year-old

I disagree. 14-year-olds sound more mature than that.

[Kingofalldems]

17. You're right. Actually reads like something from a 10 yr old.

[gopiscrap]

18. I don't think I have ever heard Gates dissing Pres. Obama

Trump says Gates did, I would like to know when

[KewlKat]

19. In Jan of this year, Gates was doing interviews about his new book

He was on MJ and other media and Gates did say some things that I didn't like about our President.

[canetoad]

20. Trump does this a lot

Gates: "Always speaks badly of his many bosses, including Obama"

Trying to create discord between Gates and the President. He did it in his comments about body language at the security briefings. I believe this is called triangulation in psychology terms (open to correction) and indicates a twisted mind.

[roamer65]

21. Drumpf had better be careful.

He's pissing off the wrong people.