Cheap shots reveal a very weak man
Why does President Donald Trump, who holds the world most powerful political office, waste his time, energy and insults belittling a quartet of first-year congresswomen?
On Sunday, the president unleashed his now-notorious tweetstorm on the four Democratic congresswomen -- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan -- known as the "squad" in Capitol Hill circles.
A lot of people say it's because he's a racist or a sexist or a misanthrope with daddy issues.
He may be all of those things, but I think the main reason is simpler than that.
It's because he's weak, very weak, and he knows it.
His White House has no legislative agenda. After the departure of Alexander Acosta as secretary of labor, Trump has more than a dozen high-level "acting" officials, leading in such areas as the Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. He's no closer to abolishing Obamacare or building a wall on the Mexican border than he ever was, even though he has claimed falsely at rallies that the wall "already is being built." It is not.
But he shows his weakness most vividly in his angry tough-guy act. We see it when he bullies the less powerful with empty threats to distract from his presidential shortcomings, trigger the liberals and give his support base a thrill.
Bullies, as his parents should have taught him long ago, are cowards inside. They don't want to fight, they only crave the feeling, however groundless and deluded it may be, that they have won.
"So interesting to see 'Progressive' Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly ... and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run."
Yes, Mr. President, members of Congress are "telling" people how our government should be run. That's why people elected them.
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