Bill Clinton stated that I called him after the election. Wrong, he called me (with a very nice congratulations). He "doesn't know much" ...— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 20, 2016
especially how to get people, even with an unlimited budget, out to vote in the vital swing states ( and more). They focused on wrong states— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 20, 2016
FOX News: Trump fires back at Bill Clinton over election comments
Donald Trump fired back at Bill Clinton on Tuesday after the former president was quoted mocking the incoming president’s intelligence and blaming FBI Director James Comey and “angry, white men” for Hillary Clinton’s defeat.
The comments emerged after an editor at the Bedford-Pound Ridge Record Review caught an impromptu Q-and-A with Bill Clinton at a New York bookstore and published the details in the paper’s print edition. The editorial did not appear online but the contents were reported by Politico.
“He doesn’t know much,” Clinton said when asked if Trump was smart. “One thing he does know is how to get angry, white men to vote for him.”
He also said Trump called him the day after the election.
Trump, on Twitter, disputed that detail and tried to turn the tables on the former president – questioning the Clinton team’s grasp of what it took to motivate voters in key swing states.
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Update: Trump goes after Bill Clinton over post-election comments (CBS).
WNU Editor: When I put up this post yesterday .... Bill Clinton Is Still Bitter .... I said to myself that President-Elect Trump would be responding within a day. And true to form he did .... thereby proving my point that if you push Trump .... he will push back. As to the bigger question .... will President-elect Trump behave the same way when he is in the Oval Office? My money is that he will continue to behave like this .... push him, and he will push back .... maybe doubly so .... and he will be like that on both domestic and international issues. Are U.S political leaders and international leaders ready for this .... people like Russian President Putin have probably sized up President-Elect Trump .... but as for everyone else .... my impression is that they still have trouble understanding him.
You don't push when you lead from behind. It s high time for the US to hold the world, nations, and organizations accountable. If the most effective method is twitter , so be it. It s just a tool.
ReplyDeleteYou don't push when you lead from behind. It s high time for the US to hold the world, nations, and organizations accountable. If the most effective method is twitter , so be it. It s just a tool.
ReplyDeletePerhaps the US does not need to "lead." It's own affairs are in such a mess it is hard to imagine the US wanting to give advice to someone else on how to manage their affairs let alone anyone asking the US to "lead."
ReplyDeleteSo far Mr. Trump, to the best of my knowledge, has refrained from such crap as the US being the "leader of the free world", the US being an "exceptional and indispensable nation", and the US being the "greatest power in world history." About the only Americans who believe such ridiculous nonsense are elitists who don't understand the real world and perhaps some media pundits. The overwhelming majority of Americans recognize such nonsense for what it is.
Thankfully Mr. Trump has refrained from such nonsense, at least to the best of my knowledge. It's time to focus on what is important. 1.)Build the economy, 2.)secure the borders and fix our immigration system, 3.)restructure our military so that it is a force capable of defending the US and its interests most importantly the mainland, and 4.)upgrading our nuclear arsenal and the means to deliver it.
There are a number of others but the point should be clear. NONE of these involve the US leading anything but America. If Mr. Trump can stay focused on these areas, good progress should be able to be made in eight years, however, fixing all of the problems America faces cannot be done in eight years. As such, his successor will have to complete the work.