It’s about finger size?
Back in 2016 “Little Marco” Rubio and Donald Trump debated about their…..finger size.
Here we are 8 years later and Trump is still obsessed with size. Not his -- check out the short fingers — but Arnold Palmer’s.
He regaled his crowd with this story about Palmer…
“This is a guy that was all man. He took showers with the other pros, they came out of there, they said, ‘Oh my God, that’s unbelievable.’ I had to say it.”
His crowd of yahoos loved it as you will see in the video above.
Arnie’s daughter, not so much. Peg Palmer Wears told ABC News:
"Being at the airport, which is named for my dad, where he flew out of to go to work every day or every week, you know, to come there and talk about … hackneyed anecdotes from the locker room … seemed disrespectful and inappropriate to me. The people coming to these rallies deserve substance about plans Trump has as a candidate, if he could elucidate on some of the threats he's made to people. I mean, these are important issues that should be discussed for people when they're getting ready to vote, and using my dad to cover over the important things just seems unacceptable to me."
I’m not sure she read the crowd correctly, though. I think if he gave them “substance” (something he’s clearly incapable of) they would have been disappointed and left early.
Not sure what they are there for, whether it’s the vulgarity, the racism, the lies, or the threats of violence. But it ain’t for substance.
The budding fascist admires Hitler
Isn’t it quaint that in 2016 and for a couple of years after that, most of the media couldn’t be impolite enough to call a lie a lie when describing Trump’s “untruths” and “exaggerations”?1
Today they are willing to quote former generals who worked for and with Trump, not shy to include the F word (FASCIST) uttered by the generals.
His former chief of staff and retired Marine general John Kelly has spoken of Trump’s admiration of Hitler (“he did a lot of good things”) and says that Trump checks all the boxes for being a fascist (listen here).
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs — essentially “the President’s top general” — told Bob Woodward that Trump is “a total fascist…the most dangerous person to this country.” Milley previously compared Trump’s Big Lie about the 2020 election to Hitler’s lies and feared that Trump would seek a “Reichstag moment.” He has spoken of Trump’s admiration of dictators and warned that he will start throwing people who disagree with him in jail, something Trump himself has been threatening when he speaks of political opponents as “the enemy within,” and continues to attack the independent press as “the enemy of the people,” invoking Hitler’s attacks on the “Lugenpresse.”
And…
FORMER DEFENSE SECRETARY JAMES MATTIS privately told Bob Woodward that he agrees with the assessment laid out in his book War, which paints Donald Trump as a unique and menacing threat to the country.
In an interview on The Bulwark Podcast on Thursday, Woodward said he recently received an email from Mattis, who served under Trump before resigning in protest. In the email, Mattis seconded the assessment offered by Gen. Mark Milley, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, whom Woodward quotes as calling Trump “the most dangerous person ever.”
We’re in for a rough ride, no matter what happens on November 5. Sick together.
This paper, All the president’s lies: Media coverage of lies in the US and France, published by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, is an interesting read.