The Insult Presidency: The Attacks, the Names, and the Cheap Shots
Let me tell you something about name-calling. It’s what proven liars, weak convicted felons and civilly adjudicated sexual abusers do when they have already lost and know it. The insult is the white flag. They throw it because they have got nothing left in the tank, no argument, no move, no leverage.
The same kind of rationale applies when you’re praising dictators.
So on a Sunday morning, I thought I’d share just a few of Trump’s comments that shouldn’t be forgotten.
John McCain
“He’s not a war hero. He’s a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren’t captured, okay?”
“I gave him the kind of funeral that he wanted, which as President I had to approve. I don’t care about this. I didn’t get a thank-you. That’s okay.”
About our Fallen Soldiers (as confirmed by Gen. John Kelly)
“Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers.”
Rosie O’Donnell
“Rosie’s a loser. A real loser.”
“My nice fat little Rosie.”
“She’s a slob.”
Carly Fiorina
“Look at that face! Would anyone vote for that?”
Megyn Kelly
“There was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever.”
Adolf Hitler (reported by former White House Chief of Staff Gen. John Kelly)
“Well, Hitler did some good things.”
“I need the kind of generals that Hitler had.”
Vladimir Putin
“I think he’s very smart.”
“He’s a genius.”
“Very savvy.”
“He has done a pretty smart thing.”
Xi Jinping
“President Xi is a brilliant man.”
“He’s a friend of mine.”
“He’s a great leader.”
“He’s president for life… maybe we’ll have to give that a shot someday.”
Kim Jong Un
“He’s a great leader.”
“He’s very talented.”
“We fell in love.”
“He wrote me beautiful letters.”
Viktor Orbán
“There’s nobody that’s better, smarter or a better leader than Viktor Orbán.”
“He’s a fantastic person.”
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
“My favorite dictator.”
Mika Brzezinski
“Low I.Q. Crazy Mika.”
“She was bleeding badly from a face-lift.”
Stephen Colbert
“A no-talent guy.”
Taylor Swift
“I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT!”
“Has anyone noticed that, since I said ‘I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT,’ she’s no longer ‘HOT?’”
Bruce Springsteen
“Dumb as a rock.”
Stormy Daniels
“Horseface.”
E. Jean Carroll
“She’s not my type.”
“A complete con job.”
Jessica Leeds
“Believe me, she would not be my first choice.”
Arianna Huffington
“Unattractive both inside and out.”
Gail Collins
“The Face of a Dog!”
Bette Midler
“An extremely unattractive woman.”
“A washed-up psycho.”
Heidi Klum
“Sadly, she’s no longer a 10.”
Kim Kardashian
“Does she have a good body? No.”
Angelina Jolie
“I really understand beauty, and she’s not.”
Hillary Clinton
“Such a nasty woman.”
“Crooked Hillary.”
“The devil.”
Kamala Harris
“She’s a low-IQ individual.”
“She’s not a smart person.”
“She’s crazy.”
“She’s lazy as hell.”
“Does she drink? Is she on drugs?”
Nancy Pelosi
“Crazy Nancy.”
“She’s an animal.”
Elizabeth Warren
“Pocahontas.”
Elaine Chao
“Coco Chow.”
Letitia James
“A political hack.”
Fani Willis
“A young racist.”
“A lunatic.”
Joe Biden
“Sleepy Joe.”
“He’s mentally shot.”
“An enemy of the state.”
LeBron James
“He made LeBron look smart, which isn’t easy to do.”
Don Lemon
“The dumbest man on television.”
Robert De Niro
“A very low IQ individual.”
“A total loser.”
Meryl Streep
“One of the most over-rated actresses in Hollywood.”
Alec Baldwin
“His dying mediocre career.”
Mark Cuban
“A weak and pathetic bully.”
Howard Stern
“A broken weirdo.”
Jim Acosta
“You are a rude, terrible person.”
“CNN should be ashamed of itself having you working for them.”
Peter Alexander
“I say that you’re a terrible reporter.”
Abby Phillip
“What a stupid question that is.”
“You ask a lot of stupid questions.”
April Ryan
“You talk about somebody that’s a loser.”
“She doesn’t know what the hell she’s doing.”
Chuck Todd
“Sleepy Eyes Chuck Todd.”
George Stephanopoulos
“Slopadopoulos.”
Jonathan Karl
“You’re a third-rate reporter.”
Maggie Haberman
“Maggot Hagerman.”
“Just another SLEAZEBAG writer for The Failing New York Times.”
Katy Tur
“Little Katy.”
“A third-rate reporter.”
Ted Cruz
“Lyin’ Ted.”
Marco Rubio
“Little Marco.”
“A lightweight.”
“A choke artist.”
Jeb Bush
“Low-energy Jeb.”
Lindsey Graham
“What a stiff. What a stiff, Lindsey Graham.”
“He’s an idiot.”
Rick Perry
“He should be forced to take an IQ test.”
“A dummy.”
Mike Bloomberg
“Mini Mike.”
Adam Schiff
“Shifty Schiff.”
“Pencil Neck.”
Jerry Nadler
“Fat Jerry.”
Chuck Schumer
“Cryin’ Chuck.”
Mitt Romney
“A pompous ass.”
“A loser.”
Bob Corker
“Liddle’ Bob Corker.”
Steve Bannon
“Sloppy Steve.”
Rex Tillerson
“Dumb as a rock.”
“Lazy as hell.”
James Comey
“Slimeball.”
“A liar and a leaker.”
“A showboat.”
“A nut job.”
Andrew McCabe
“A major sleazebag.”
Peter Strzok
“A sick loser.”
Michael Cohen
“A rat.”
John Bolton
“One of the dumbest people in Washington.”
Mike Pence
“Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution.”
Ron DeSantis
“Ron DeSanctimonious.”
Nikki Haley
“Birdbrain.”
Gavin Newsom
“Newscum.”
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
“Not even a smart person.”
Four Democratic congresswomen
“Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came?”
Justin Trudeau
“Very dishonest and weak.”
Sadiq Khan
“A stone-cold loser.”
Meghan Markle
“I didn’t know that she was nasty.”
Mexican immigrants
“They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.”
Immigrants
“They’re poisoning the blood of our country.”
Political opponents
“We pledge to you that we will root out the Communists, Marxists, Fascists and the radical-left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country.”
Judge Gonzalo Curiel
“He’s a Mexican.”
Judge Arthur Engoron
“A rogue judge.”
“A very partisan judge with a person who’s very partisan sitting alongside him.”
Judge Juan Merchan
“A Trump-hating judge.”
Alvin Bragg
“A degenerate psychopath.”
Jack Smith
“Deranged Jack Smith.”
“A thug.”
James Mattis
“The world’s most overrated general.”
Mark Milley
“A woke train wreck.”
“This is an act so egregious that, in times gone by, the punishment would have been DEATH!”
Colin Powell
“A classic RINO.”
John Dingell
“Maybe he’s looking up, I don’t know.”
Catherine Lucey (Bloomberg News)
“Quiet, piggy.”
Katie Rogers (The New York Times)
“Ugly, both inside and out.”
Kaitlan Collins
“A corrupt reporter.”
“She has hatred in her eyes.”
Kristen Welker
“You’re either crooked or stupid.”
Nancy Cordes
“Are you a stupid person?”
Mary Bruce
“You’re a terrible person.”
There are literally hundreds more insults, derogatory statements, and flat-out inaccurate claims I could pile on here, but I will spare you the tedium. I put this together because all of us deserve to remember exactly the caliber of character sitting in the Oval Office right now, and it is worth remembering.
Mitch Jackson, Esq. (exclusive benefits for paid subscribers)
Even his insults lack style and panache. Put him on a corner in Bed Stuy and they would verbally shred him. Put him in the Yale Club and they would make him cry just by asking for his transcripts or board scores. The latter is lame but he would get seriously rattled by it. He lacks facts, concepts and has a vocabulary below median on the elementary school short bus.
This is a compilation for the ages! Great job.