Any worthwhile reporter doesn’t want to be friendly w/ Trump and his toadies

There are times when I think one of my professional strengths is that personally, I’m an anti-social sort of individual.

TRUMP: He wants to be worshipped

I can be rude and pushy when need be, and I certainly don’t get offended when a person whom I deal with in my work as a reporter-type person decides they didn’t like something I wrote.

IT’S AN OCCUPATIONAL hazard that there are going to be people who are going to take offense to the notion that you’d bother to report something they’d just as soon downplay. Personally, I’ve lost count of the number of government-type geeks who have told me they’d never speak to me again!

For what it’s worth, most of them got over whatever caused them to have a tantrum in the first place. And for the ones who really did cut me off, I found they were usually the ones so interested in feeding me nothing but political “spin” that I was better off not hearing from them anymore.

They really didn’t have anything worth saying in the first place. Which some might argue applies just as much to President Donald Trump.

These thoughts have been running through my mind in recent days, as some people seem determined to make an issue out of the post-election hissy fit that Trump had in dealing with a CNN broadcaster.

THE REALITY IS that I suspect Trump was eager to want to dump all over someone that day. Election 2018 results weren’t a total loss for Trump, but they also revealed that a certain segment of our society continues to think of “the Donald” as an insipid buffoon.

And there’s nothing more that Trump thinks he has a right to demand of the American people than our eternal respect. As in we all should kneel before him – just like in that “Superman” movie where “General Zod” forces the U.S. president in the Oval Office to pledge loyalty to him.

I suspect Trump watched that film all those years ago, thought it a cool bit, and then figured Zod would kneel before he and all his money!

So should the reporter take Trump’s rant the least bit seriously? It was so staged by him that I think it shows all the more how unfit for political office he truly is.

WHEN I HEAR people try to make an issue of it, and whether or not a reporter was disrespectful toward our national “commander in chief,” I can’t help but snicker.

it is all pure theater meant to play to those ideologues who are the outspoken minority who cheer on his every idiotic comment on just about every issue.

I couldn’t help but snicker when I received in my daily e-mail load the latest poll being taken by the Trumpsters – asking us if we approve of the presidential behavior in all this issue. But going so far as to tell us outright that, “President Trump will NOT put up with the media’s liberal bias and utter disrespect for this Administration.”

This quickie poll by Trump will be as ludicrous as all the previous ones he has taken where he asks people if they merely approve of his job performance, or if they absolutely admire him.

THAT LINE ABOUT Trump not liking bias and utter disrespect truly shows the man has no clue about what is going on. Here’s the blunt truth – a reporter-type is going to refuse to be submissive toward anyone in a position of power; which us what Trump thinks he's entitled to. Anybody who thinks that’s the way it ought to be is being downright ridiculous, if not un-American.

I don’t know of any government official at any level or of any political party who thinks the reporter-types they encounter are “friends.” I don’t know of any serious reporter-type who’d want to be too friendly with government officials.

If anything, Trump needs to learn that questions about his policies aren’t personal. It’s informational, and the impression he gives off with his behavior (and making an issue of revoking access to the White House, even though I know many reporter-types who think White House access is oh so overrated) is of a sniveling, whiny child.

Butch and Woim -- Trump's idea of a great America?

With the people who want to support him coming across as toadies overly-anxious to be aligned with the schoolyard bully. Think of the old “Little Rascals” film shorts, with Trump as bully “Butch” and his supporters being the equivalent of “Woim.” Is that really the image we want for our society?

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Election rigged? It must be if we don't ignore Trump as ruler of our universe

The whining is getting ridiculous, although I think those Republican political operatives who seriously are speculating that they can have presidential nominee Donald Trump declared mentally unfit are just a bit absurd.

 

TRUMP: He must prevail, or else!?!

For whatever reason, your political party allowed Trump to gain the right to call himself the Republican nominee. Now live with it, and work harder in future election cycles to not have your party process usurped by an egomaniacal nut.

BECAUSE THAT’S ABOUT what I have concluded is the situation involving Trump. And I also realize there are people in our society who are totally comfortable with Trump because they think his nuttiness will work out in their favor.

Or at least it will work against those people they want to perceive as not like themselves.

So when Trump goes on rants like he has earlier this week talking about how the electoral process is “rigged” against him, it just comes across way too clear that this is someone who thinks he is entitled to an electoral victory.

Because, in his mini-mind, there’s just no way a fair and just system would allow anybody but himself to prevail.

OF COURSE, THIS is far from the first time Trump has come off as an ego run amok. Someone who seriously thinks his wealth makes him better and more important than everybody else.

One of my Facebook friends posted a link to an old story from back in February – back when Trump was talking about the need to alter the First Amendment to the Constitution.

 

Is this Trump vision of Constitution?

That’s the one that regards freedom of religion and public expression, and also includes a clause preventing abridgment freedom of the press. It is the basis of various court decisions that give news organizations some protection from rich egotists like Trump who wish they could intimidate through lawsuits.

Because as Trump said back then, he needs to have the authority to use the courts as the mechanism by which he intimidates people because, “I’m not like other people.”

JUST LIKE NOW, he thinks he’s different from other candidates whom he wants to think must kneel before him and pledge their lives to his service.

Just like actor Terrence Stamp’s “General Zod” character in the Superman II film from 1980. Remember the scene where he demanded the U.S. president pledge allegiance to him if he wanted to live?

Why do I fear that we have a presidential nominee who has watched Superman films far too often, and finds some sense of likeability in the villain character?

Then again, perhaps Trump believes the only kind of film worth watching would be one based on his own life – and one in which he would get to portray himself on the silver screen! It’s not the most absurd idea – radio talk show host Howard Stern got to play himself in the film based on his biographical book “Private Parts.”

PERSONALLY, I’D BE reluctant to watch such a film. It would just be a little too self-serving. Besides, watching the activity of this election cycle is giving us all a show that is far too absurd to take seriously.

The kind of nonsense we have seen and heard in recent months has been such a stretch. I fear future generations won’t quite believe us when we recall our memories of what has happened.

 

If Trump is Zod, does that make Hillary Superman?

Either that, or they’ll wonder how we could possibly be ridiculous enough to take such a character seriously? I’m not about to try to answer that question – that is one we will have to spend years pondering.

It also makes me wonder if the majority of society whom Trump has gone out of his way to demonize in order to entice the segment of society he wants to favor will wind up giving Hillary Clinton’s campaign the super strength that Superman himself used in that film when he crushed Zod’s body with his bare hand, and Zod’s allies were left so weak that even Lois Lane was able to cold-cock them!

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