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Wednesday, December 31, 2025

Dear President Trump, Of all the wrong ideas you hold in your heart"that tariffs are paid by foreigners, that good looks are the chief credential for cabinet offices, that the 2020 election was rigged, that allies are bloodsuckers we'd be better off without"perhaps the most gobsmacking is your cherished notion that people respect you when they kiss your ass.

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[C]ontempt arises from the knowledge"recognized by the whole world, Mr. Trump, except you"that your extravagant need for attention and praise is evidence of your emotional stuntedness. With every renaming of a building you are sending up a signal that screams "I am so insecure!" And here's the truth: You cannot piggyback on the respect John F. Kennedy earned by slapping your name on the arts center that was named by statute to be his living memorial. Your name may be side by side with his on the marble for now, but in our hearts, we will never respect you. Quite the opposite"for all of your depredations and twice on Sunday for attempting to hijack someone else's honor.

It gets worse. It isn't just that your ravenous hunger for recognition betrays a personality disorder, it's that your particular style of seeking it really does provoke ridicule"that's another word for "they're laughing at us."

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"In short," Mona Charen observes, "there has never been a president who has made the United States less respected than you have. We are, to borrow a phrase, disrespected like never before. Whether your twisted ego can recognize that is open to question, but what is not debatable is that virtually the whole world knows."

#1 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-12-31 07:22 AM | Reply

FTA: "Our traditional allies are not always laughing. More often they're wringing their hands as you luxuriate in the company of international outlaws like Vladimir Putin, Nayib Bukele, Benjamin Netanyahu and mouth stupendous lies such as that Zelensky started the war with Russia."

My bolded insert above.

Remarkable that writer Mona Charen would mention tinhorn despot Nayib Bukele (President of where?), but omit ICC-indicted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu, an ogre responsible for the deaths of 70,000 human beings and who has turned Israel into a Pariah nation and a Rogue state.

And Netanyahu's sulfuric presence was just in the US poisoning our air mere days ago.

I'll wager that in future pieces Ms. Charen will vehemently condemn Dummkopf Trumpf for bombing Venezuelans, but not when he bombs Iranians or Houthis.




#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-12-31 08:09 AM | Reply

Donald Trump KNOWS that people laugh at him. That's one reason we're at war with Venezuela.

#3 | Posted by Zed at 2025-12-31 10:25 AM | Reply

He wears clown makeup and doesn't know he's a clown?

#4 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-12-31 10:30 AM | Reply

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