The cruelty is the point.
As Joe Biden acknowledged on Tuesday night, Donald Trump now has the Republican presidential nomination sewn up. But like a Roman emperor or mob boss, Trump used his victory speech in New Hampshire to humiliate his former opponents – and make sinister threats against his last primary rival.
The former US president had followed up his record win in the Iowa caucuses with victory over Nikki Haley, his former ambassador to the UN, with a double-digit triumph in less favourable political territory. As Republican politicians and donors scramble to jump aboard the Trump train, it is clearly game over for the Never Trumpers.
Trump could have been magnanimous in victory and congratulated Haley on a race well run. Instead, he was palpably irked by her refusal to drop out of the race. Petty and vindictive, he became a playground bully punching down for the benefit of an audience that glories in metaphorical violence.
Then there was Senator Tim Scott, another ex-rival who has already debased himself with a fawning endorsement of Trump. With his unerring ability to get under people’s skin, [Trump] said to Scott that, since former South Carolina governor Haley appointed him to the Senate, “You must really hate her.”
There was an awkward silence in the room and a rare grunt of dissent from someone. To rescue the situation, Scott stepped forward to the lectern, looked at Trump and grovelled: “I just love you!” The crowd exhaled in relief.
WTF?
I hope he shat himself just a little bit there, he helped make this fascist cult and now he gets to fear them too
I hope that moment is one he agonizes over every time he starts falling asleep
You need a functioning short term memory, and the capacity for self-reflection for that.
The only things keeping him up at night are probably an enlarged prostate, or constipation/diarrhea from all the fast food.
She should have thrown his election claims back at him. Claimed they were rigged, refused to accept the outcome etc etc…
She’s a woman and an ashamed ethnic minority. She lacks the male white privilege to play his games.
Metaphorical?
Calling in a bomb threat is just metaphorical terrorism. /s
Wow I didn’t realize that she pulled 43.3% of the vote in New Hampshire. When you take into account how many of her voters said they would not vote for Trump in the general election, that’s gotta be a bad sign for Trump.
This is the real news and should be part of every headline - nearly 45% of the Republican party doesn’t want Trump, in fact voted for someone that has very similar foreign policy views as Biden, that’s not good news for Trump at all.
Trump “turns into sinister playground bully” is exactly the sort of corporate news spin that will doom us all.
Anyone who knows a goddamned thing would have said he’s always been a sinister playground bully - from when he threw rocks at a baby in a crib as a child - but the Grauniad just can’t help but goose the outrage by pretending it’s a “new” thing.
Corporate News Journalism is a flaming, screaming, unfunny joke.
At what point has he ever not behaved like a bully? Thats his entire facade.
I think the media shouldn’t call him by name anymore, he should just be “man currently under 91 felony indictments” or maybe just “fraud” or “rapist”
He is a bully.
Truuuump, it’s called a presidential primary, not primary school.
You know, at this point if he didn’t do that i would think something was up.
Turns into?
The literal definition of token friends. Congrats Scott and Ramaswamy, make sure you smile for master.
