Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States: “Peoples lives are being shattered and destroyed by a mere allegation. There is no recovery for someone falsely accused – life and career are gone. Is there no such thing any longer as Due Process?”
Even if you didn’t know whose tweet that was you could probably guess because of the 1st degree grammar abuse. What did language ever do to him? If writing was 
baseball, Trump would bat .125. If it was art, you’d be scrubbing crayon off the White House walls. (For the record, ‘peoples’ needs the possessive apostrophe and Due Process is not a proper noun, thus is not capitalized. You’d think a guy with 47 million Twitter followers, most of whom attended English class, would download Grammarly, try spell-check or have a fourth-grader on call. But, alas.)
The tweet, of course, is about Rob Porter, his top aide who resigned after his ex-wives came forward with stunning allegations of abuse, including heartbreaking photos.
Trump, as usual, used the opportunity to set a moral tone and direction for the nation by denouncing spousal abuse and standing shoulder to shoulder with the burgeoning and long overdue #MeToo movement.
Nah. Just kidding. He did what Trump always does. He curiously sided with the wrong side, praised Porter and said Porter had “a tough week.” And somewhere a parent in Trump’s base just turned to his son and said, “That there’s a great man. I want you to be just like him.”
To understand how repellent this is, imagine if your sister showed up to Christmas dinner with a black eye and said “Rob slugged me. He’s been slugging me for years.” You wouldn’t sit there and natter on about due process or say “Poor Rob, he must have had a tough week”?
So why is Trump?
I think that’s pretty obvious: He’s a horrible, horrible human being, the worst human being of my lifetime, by far, to ever occupy the Oval Office. He doesn’t think, “Gee, those poor women.” Because in Trump’s world, women don’t matter. They’re here only to serve men. And if they don’t, he has no use for them. They’re servants, not people.
But there’s also another reason for this tweet, I suspect, one that no one seems to be considering, and that’s self-interest, something that is near and dear to Trump’s meager little heart.
See, the more I listen to Trump lately the more I hear a man setting up his excuses, justifications and arguments long in advance of the arrival of the legal trains coming his way. He’s saying “whatever happened to due process?” now, in Porter’s case, because he’s going to use the same phrase later on when he’s being pressured to resign.
What else explains the grossly obvious irony of a man who led crowds in chanting “Lock her up!” about Hillary Clinton suddenly pretending to be a due process fan? Did she not deserve “due process”?
Nope. Not in Trump world. In Trump world all that matters is him. You can hear it and see it in nearly everything he says or writes. Laws exist only to control others, not him. The country and its government is here to serve him, no one else. The whole world, in fact, exists solely to deliver unto him goodness and riches. He is the stage, after all, and we are all just actors upon it.
We’re all women to him, in that regard.
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I think you summed it up very well! I will jump in before the trolls come aboard and say when you call out spelling and grammar, use know and not no. 😐
Yup. Typo. Thanks.
He’s been occupying the White House for almost 13 months. Why does this Twilight Zone presidency seem like 13 years with these continual bizarre, off the wall comments?
Check the second and fifth sentences of the last paragraph.
I mean the sixth sentence, including the sentence with the word “Nope”. Just a heads up, because it contradicts one of your points in the post. We don’t want our trolls to zero in on that. I am trying not to give any hints.
That is only the latest controversal comment out of so many in the last year. This is the same guy who said there are good people on both sides when referring to white supremacists, so of course this comment is hardly surprising.
Make no mistake, he is not defending these people. He defending only himself, he is the only one who matters. It is becoming painfully obvious that he surrounds himself with lowlifes, and you are what you surround yourself with. So he sets out to change our reality by pushing a false narrative about the character of those people with the intention of boosting his own moral standing by convincing us there are only good people in his circle.
His supporters, especially those who have daughters, clearly handed their balls to him and possess no self-respect if they continue to defend these latest remarks. That is why they are so angry, because they are weak little men and Trump’s antics remind them of that fact every day.
Andrew Heller, you certainly are the “Best. Columnist. Ever.” Well said.
I’ve always thought so. Party of one.
I know many people that don’t write or speak well but have common sense. To bad our president has neither.
Two bad is right!
White House is getting more toy soldiers and tanks.
Toddler-de-dee, Toddler-de-dee,
The Dump strides in his parade with glee,
Says the Dump, says he,
“Will you play soldier with me,
And watch me drive in my tank, please, please?”
Toddler-de-dee, Toddler-de-dum,
Trump is a brat who sucks on his thumb.
I wonder if Trump could get a security clearance if he hadn’t been elected President ?????? Scary thought, eh ??
I can’t say anything about spelling or grammar. I suck at both.
Ahh, but you have common sense.
Geez, folks, if you don’t like President Trump, say so. Stop beating around the bush! You’ve got 7 more years, wahooo!
Why on earth would you like a lying ,cheating ,women hating ,egotistical idiot like that? The guys a Fruitloop. I am amazed at people like you defend that type of person. Do you live your life that way? If you do sir I feel bad for you.
In the bushes at the White House.
Toddler time,
Bigotry time,
Idiot time,
All the time.
Actually “around the bushes” too!
Hey Kreskin explain this seven more years thing. Can you see the future? Is this some sort of new math? If things remain as they are now (although I believe it is only going to get worse), Trump, if he runs will only attract about a third of the vote. I think even a generic Democrat stands a good chance in 2020. So, less than three years to go, and maybe less.
Right on Tommy
Many have said our politics are “tribal.” Trump’s tribal members, including Ernie, still back Trump, stick with Trump despite all his lies, baloney, ignorance, arrogance, harm and so on. I just figured out who our American tribes are:
Trump’s tribe is the Squares. The other tribe is the Cool Tribe. Americans who are cool, or who aspire to be cool oppose Trump. And American Squares support him, no matter what he does or says. The Squares dislike cool Americans so much that they always follow Trump. They may not love Trump himself so much, but they dislike cool people too much ever to join them.
Cool Americans do not hate the Squares, but they hold Squares in distain. Trump is not cool. He has met cool people. He has to deal with them, but Trump himself is a life-long Square. His own tribal instinct is leading the whole country and the whole world astray, both square and cool.
The squares are stubbornly tribal because they haven’t been able to square the circle. Of course, the reason why they haven’t been able to perform this noble act is because pi (π) is a transcendental number, and they despise transcendentalism.
A very cool response, Native. And,I meant to write DISDAIN. A bad spelling error in a thread that focuses on grammar.
How on the world can I be square? I thought all this time that I was a deplorable!
Andy Heller – Since you are such a grammar guru in analysis of simple tweets from your President Trump, I am sure you would have some criticism of Obama the dumbass who recounted travelling to 57 states with one more to go. Please tell us your analysis of this undeniable stupidity from Hell.
https://youtu.be/EpGH02DtIws
Yeah, you keep bringing that weak point up. Let me help you out. The United States has 50 states and 14 territories, most with a voting population. And you are still a pathetic excuse for a man.
Obama is gone and so is Hillary get over it already. Why do you republicans live in the past? Oh ya cause they can’t defend the fool in office so they have to blame someone.
Who was the idiotic lib poster from here that guaranteed President Trump would be driven from office by September 2017? It was one of you geniuses.
A remember a certain “stable genius” guaranteeing that Obama Care would be repealed “on day one!”
Who was it Dud? You said it prove it.
Hey Working Dad, how is that wall coming along?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypNIs-H_NQc
Once upon a time schummer, pelosi, hilliary and a few other democrats preached a few years ago when obama was in office that a wall needed to built. They were gung ho for the wall to be built. Then President Trump got elected and they all of a sudden changed their tune and started fighting against building a wall.
President Trump in his campaign speeches stated that he was going to build a wall. so far the democrats have fought him tooth and nail to stop him from building the wall.
If it was not for double standards and hypocrisy the democrats would not have any standards at all.
Democrats Against Citizens of America.
Utter baloney, Jimmie Boy.
Jimmie Boy has been smoking crack or meth or something. Democrats have never suggersted building “a wall” like Trump talks about. Not one tax dollar should be spent on a wall. He said Mexico will pay for it. If they pay for it then I’m fine with it.
Nah. He’s just stupid.
Fred says that Trump supporters are so angry and weak little men. The only angry little men I see often are the people who write in on this site and harangue against Trump. Get a life! He is the president.
All I have to do is picture Hillary as president and her preaching to us in her condescending ways, and then I know what true torture would be.
Thank God we were all spared that. Just go on hating Trump and have a happy life.
Again Hillary is gone. Why do you guys keep living in the past? Trumps an arse and you know it. That’s what this country is about. Don’t like it change it. It is coming!!!
I am glad you read my comment to the end. You must had enjoyed. Thank you!
So Ann B you are Natasha to Working Dad’s Boris? How’s the Borscht?
Do not assume that these Squares understand you. They may not know who Boris, Natasha, and Fearless Leader are:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4txmBNCAXg8
Yes, I do know who Boris, Natasha and Fearless Leader are and who they represent. They are the classic icons of the liberal, socialist and communist party otherwise known as the democrat party.
WOW, talk about hatred and blinders. Andrew, along with the other liberals and socialists have a whole lot anger issues about President Trump.
The grammar nazi’s are coming out swinging today. Andrew complained about President Trump’s spelling while making a few mistakes himself. It all adds up to making a mountain out of an ant hill.
I would rather have a person who makes some grammar mistakes than one who speaks a whole lot of words and you are forced to parce a lot of the words to try to figure out what he /she was actually saying.
Andrew are you trying to infer that hilliary clinton and slick wiley are perfect human beings? IF so say so.
I do not believe that there is such a thing as a perfect, mistake free human.
slick wiley was and still is defended by hilliary. Slick has had a number of women over the years accuse him of rape and other sexual abuse. hilliary trashed every last one of them.
She got a rapist off scott free years ago for raping a 13 year old girl. hilliary smeared the girl’s reputation.
How would you feel about such an event if it was your own daughter? During the course of the trial the defense attorney smeared the character of your daughter. Implied that your daughter started the chain of events by being in the wrong type of attire? That she should not have dressed in such a manner. I would like to see your answer in print.
Who the heck was this 13-year-old girl, Jimmie? Was she one of the kids in the basement of that pizza place? What in the world are you writing about, you dope? Please shrink back into the woodwork! Go away, please. Forever.
She was a defense attorney, That was her job, and she did it just like any other defense attorney in America would had. And, how long ago was that? What is it with you not being able to stay in the present?
How would you feel if the CURRENT president of the United States defended the man who punched your own daughter in the face?
This is the dimension of imagination, it is an area which we call the twilight zone.
This is what we exist in, trumpism, God help us all.
Funny how working dad disappeared when you prove him wrong.
The big story in every major media outlet today is; FBI Director contradicts Trump again, except Fox News. Fox New’s big stories today are : Don’t let Kim Jung Un little sister fool you and Illegal Immigrant responsible for drunk driving death.
If the real fake news, also known as Fox News , was knocked off the air for a while do you think some people would come to their senses? Fox News possesses the same evilness as mr trump.
Today, another horrific school shooting in Florida left 16 innocent people dead and more wounded. We can count on those on the left to point to our gun control problem, while those on the right will point to fact that the shooter’s last name is Cruz.