In the left’s ongoing frenzy to paint former President Donald Trump as an unhinged evil dictator, there seems to be no comparison that is off limits.
But after repeatedly likening the Republican presidential nominee to Adolf Hiter, there’s not much lower the leftist media can go. The Atlantic’s David Frum gave his best shot on CNN as he quoted “Republican Voters Against Trump” consultant Mike Murphy who named Trump and Charles Manson in the same sentence.
In a total lack of self-awareness, Frum insulted Trump in a segment on “CNN This Morning” Wednesday as he bashed the former president for being an “insult comic.”
“David Frum, you capture it this way in your latest piece in The Atlantic, you say that Trump’s campaign, you call it the Trump campaign’s please shut up phase,” host Kasie Hunt said, quoting the piece which reads: “This is Trump’s problem. For all his jibes at her intellect, Harris is managing the mystery appeal effectively, whereas Trump, who endlessly congratulates himself on his MIT professor uncle’s brains, is fast arriving at the, will you please shut up phase of his political descent.”
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“Mike Murphy, the Republican campaign consultant, a decade ago or nearly a decade ago, said that asking Donald Trump to talk about policy is like teaching Charles Manson to foxtrot,'” Frum responded.
“He can manage a step or two, but then he’s going to put a pencil in your eye because he’s Charles Manson,” he added.
“And Donald Trump is Donald Trump. And as you just said a minute ago, I mean, it’s astonishing,” Frum continued with no sense of irony. “Of course, he’s an insult comic. That’s what he is. He doesn’t know, he knows less about policy than anybody probably ever run for high office ever.”
“But what he does know is how to abuse and denigrate and humiliate and demean. That’s what he does,” Frum told Hunt. “If you don’t like that, he’s not your guy. And if he is your guy, don’t pretend he’s not like that—because he’s like that.”
The Trump-hating columnist, who authored the 2018 book titled, “Trumpocalypse: Restoring American Democracy,” also tried his hand at clinically diagnosing the former president as showing signs of “clinical narcissism.”
“When anything threatens to puncture those fantasies, those fictions, the person can spiral into all kinds of mental collapse,” he said. “Into aggression, into violence, into self-hatred, but that’s the Donald Trump story. I think that down there is seething worthlessness and self-hatred. He’s constructed this fantasy of his life, and now it’s being contradicted, and he can’t cope.”
“I will just say that none of us are actually card-carrying psychologists, so we’ll leave that there,” Hunt retorted as she moved along to another panelist.
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Originally from New York, Powers graduated from New York University and eventually made her way to sunny South Florida. Powers also contributes to BizPac Review.
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