Trump Calls Former Defense Secretary Gates a 'Clown'

[TomCADem]

Source: MSN/NBC News

Donald Trump derided former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, calling the national security official a "clown" and a "mess."

The attacks came after Gates expressed concern about Trump's readiness to be commander-in-chief in a Friday op-ed in The Wall Street Journal. Gates, who served under both Republican and Democratic presidents, wrote that both Trump and Hillary Clinton "have a credibility problem in foreign affairs" before singling out the Republican nominee as "in a league of his own" and "beyond repair" on security issues.

"Mr. Trump has been cavalier about the use of nuclear weapons," Gates opined. "He has a record of insults to servicemen, their families and the military, which he called a 'disaster.' He has declared our senior military leaders 'reduced to rubble' and 'embarrassing our country' and has suggested that, if elected, he will purge them—an unprecedented and unconscionable threat. As of late, he appears to be rethinking some of these positions but he has yet to learn that when a president shoots off his mouth, there are no do-overs."

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"We had a clown today, an absolute clown, Robert Gates," Trump told a crowd. "He's supposed to be an expert. He's been there forever ... he goes out and he says negative things about me. I never met him. I never talked to him. Believe me, I am so much better at what he's doing than he is."

Read more: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-calls-former-defense-secretary-gates-a-clown/ar-BBwjyn7

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A man with god complex with the nuclear codes. We might as well start referring to him as Kim Jong Trump.

[Matthew28]

1. A modern day Hitler

Trump is dangerous as he thinks he can do what he wants and he has visions of grander.

[BlueStater]

2. What's his obsession with whether someone has met him or not when they badmouth him?

I've never met him (and hope I never do) but I can still safely say that he's a scumbag.

[underpants]

5. Read this. It explains a lot about him.

Trumpology - Politico

[duncang]

3. Always the statesman

Gates or anyone can listen to him and figure out he would not be able to keep his cool. And that not only has he already been causing problems, but would reek havoc with the U.S. status world wide.

[bulloney]

24. Trump's responses to Gates (and everyone else who's questioned Trump) only proves Gates' point.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. It gets worse every day

This is the guy who says he relies on advisers, but everyone who disagrees
with him is a 'clown', so he's a typical CEO surrounded by YES MEN until
the whole one-sided hubris drives the company into bankruptcy.

I have to think the GOP mainstream or what's left of it - Mitt may even
surface in October - will do all they can to save their country and
the world.

[Botany]

6. Trump speak

"Believe me" = I am about to tell a lie

[guillaumeb]

27. More Trump speak:

"Trust me on this"=I am going to really take advantage of you.

[Botany]

34. i read something about a month or so ago about what a really bad liar Trump is and

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the writer interviewed psychologists and police detecives and they all said that
Trump has very easy "tells" for his lies ..... when somedody says "I am going to
tell you the truth" or "this is the real story" they knew the person was going to lie.

[guillaumeb]

40. And, talking with sone Trump supporters,

they will admit that he lies, but somehow they hope/assume that this time he is telling the truth. It is sad to hear, and their disappointment will be great.

[Thinkingabout]

7. I do not remember Gates being a member of the clown car but I do remember Trump as a clown.

[Satch59]

8. Keep talking without the prompter please....

We need as much of the real Trump as possible...

[PSPS]

9. This was already posted in LBN

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141575582

[cheri010353]

10. Ummm

Voters will, for the most part, be judging Trump in November without ever having met or talked to him.

[3catwoman3]

25. Excellent point!

As is post #2 above, about being able to realize, simply by observation, that Trump is a complete jackass.

[Gothmog]

11. Trump calling anyone a clown is amusing

[C_U_L8R]

12. We don't need a Namecaller in Chief

No one needs a Namecaller in Chief.
Go away Trump. And stay away.

[NastyRiffraff]

13. Remember when...

--we expected a presidential candidate to observe the basic rules of decorum?
--calling someone names would be roundly criticized on all sides?
--the lack of even minimal knowledge of foreign policy, the Constitution, and how the Federal government works would be disqualifiers?

I do. Even George W. Bush...and the gods know I despised him...even HE didn't, as far as I know, call anyone names that sounded like they came from a schoolyard. Trump talks like a thug. His speech reminds me of Tony Soprano, except Tony was a nicer guy. Smarter, too.

[Mc Mike]

23. I think dRumf took a break from screaming and crying about Hillary calling his supporters names,

to call Gates some names.

Then right back to his hysterical complaints about his opponent's uncivil name-calling.

[cilla4progress]

14. What needs to happen

Is someone like Gates needs to absolutely lose it and go off on him on national TV. This equanimity is not going to cut it.

[Farmgirl1961]

15. To Trump everyone is a clown

When the reality is -- he's the world's biggest clown. Problem is, he can say whatever the heck he wants and gets a free pass from the media. He's such a joke that people just expect him to say nonsense and they go back to their epic ranting of hating Hillary or calling her dishonest.

[Third Doctor]

16. This is classic projection

[ailsagirl]

33. yes!!

[The_Casual_Observer]

17. Its boring already with Trump, criticize his sorry ass and you get it back 10 fold.

this is a well known tactic.

[PatSeg]

18. Donald has a habit of taking

any criticism directed at him and throwing it at someone else. When Hillary criticized his temperament, he turned around and said the same thing about her. "Clown" is a word that has been used over and over again to describe Trump and now he throws it at Robert Gates because Gates said something negative about him. That is like trying to hurt a skinny adversary by calling him "fat". His use of insults tends to be rather indiscriminate and very odd.

[elleng]

19. That's what he does, he calls names.

He's a bully.

[meow2u3]

35. But he never calls people names to their faces

He waits until their backs are turned, then he either hides behind his hired thugs brainwashed supporters or goes on the air to accuse them of his own numerous disturbed character failings.

The best way to shut him down is to tell him this: "If you have a problem with me, say it to my face first."

[crim son]

20. Trump needs to go.

Period.

[downeastdaniel]

21. a friend of tRUMP should take him away from the media, in fact all people. Why?

He's just too thin skinned to be with people...and there's no amount of compensation the would make him normal.

[Major Nikon]

22. Who could ever have predicted that response?

[Xipe Totec]

26. Pssst! Donald! That's not Gates. That's a mirror! nt

[SammyWinstonJack]

28. Unbelievable.

[mobeau69]

29. Gates was also critical of HRC.

The difference in their reactions to his piece says a hell of a lot about both of them.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

30. Trump is not capable of writing an OpEd for the WSJ, not without huge ghostwriting. . . . nt

[mobeau69]

31. Yep, he's up there with Palin.

"He's a mess, okay, he's a mess," Trump said of Gates. "Look what he gave us, look at the mess of all these people that have been there for so many years. Look what we have, look at the Middle East.
"We're in worse shape than we were 15 years ago by a factor of 10," Trump said. "Much more importantly, the lives that we lost, because we're dealing with incompetent people, we're dealing with stupid people. We're dealing with people like Robert Gates that don't have a clue and then when they leave office, they criticize everybody.

I can't believe the pukes gave us this moron.

[ailsagirl]

32. Translated...

"I am a clown"

[truthisfreedom]

36. It's easy to counter this coward.

Gates just has to remind everyone that trump has a six lane yellow stripe running down his bovine backside that doesn't scare terrorists at all. Everyone knows that trump was too scared to put on a pair of military boots and carry a gun for his country. He's a coward through and through. Nobody's scared of Trump except his own country, and we all know his greatest threat is causing nuclear winter for everyone because of his thin cowardly skin.

[Sunlei]

37. He going cray-cray spamming tweets now, the green pepe spams along with him. I think pepe is him!

he tweeted a 'best wishes' to todays victims, wtf?.

[roamer65]

38. Earth to the Mango Mussolini

Pissing off 3 former CIA directors, Gates, Hayden and Morell, is not a good situation to put yourself into.

Just food for thought.

[liberalhistorian]

39. Well, Mr. Cheeto-man, it certainly

looks like you're taking projection to a whole new level, now, doesn't it?

[sakabatou]

41. He does love to project