Respect for the office

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Ophelia Benson

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Three times now.

The president of the United States.

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2 responses to “Respect for the office”

  1. tiggerthewing Avatar
    tiggerthewing

    “Wacky”?

    I suppose that he cannot remember names unless he appends an adjective. But why that one? Even if everything he and Kelly had said about her were true – and every single one is a lie – ‘wacky’ as a word to describe her is simply completely wrong. It’s a word used to describe people with an outrageously silly sense of humour with behaviour to match. It is yet another indication of the paucity of his vocabulary, that he simply couldn’t think of a more apposite word. But he knows that word, and hadn’t yet attached it to the name of anyone else he wants to put down.

    That he and the secretary of state have behaved so appallingly towards a member of congress should be enough to get them both out of office; but it won’t, will it? Checks and balances? The checks have been torn up, and the balances tipped over.

  2. iknklast Avatar
    iknklast

    tiggerthewing – my family often used that word to describe people they though were something other than outrageously silly behavior. To them, it was a word that implied someone was dangerously out of control and doing things they didn’t approve of…since Trump is so much like my family in almost every way (except no one in my family is a billionaire – but bankruptcies have been common), I suspect he may be using it that way, too.

    Or it’s just because as a schoolyard bully he just puts any word that he perceives as an insult with the name.

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