Trump Cheerleaders are No Help

It should be obvious that anyone who thinks that President Trump can do no wrong is not thinking clearly.  Such biased proponents do not serve the object of their adulation very well.

Of course, everyone knows that no one is perfect.  So why does Fox host Sean Hannity and White House Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders (daughter of former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee) insist, seemingly, that he is above criticism?  People recoil from such characterizations.  They simply can’t be true. Thus, the proponents of such fantasies sacrifice credibility and believability.  Their pronouncements are not deemed trustworthy.  As a result, they ill-serve the person they seek to promote.

In the latest example, the President tweeted insulting and petty references to Joe Scarborough and his fiancée Mika Brzezinski.  To be sure, the co-hosts of “Morning Joe” on the left wing MSNBC network have been unstinting in their often personal attacks on Trump since his election.  But the incumbent in the White House is not a competing “talking head” on another cable outlet. 

Old fashioned people like The Sensible Conservative might note that such comments bring the President down to the level of his detractors.  A better position would be for President Trump to decline to respond in kind since to do so would be beneath the dignity of the office he holds.

 

No, that’s not the appropriate response, administrative spokeswoman Sarah Sanders implies.  (This is a president who “fights fire with fire.”)

To follow through with the analogy, wouldn’t a fire fighter’s first option be to put water on the blaze, rather than add fuel?

Alas, our President seems prone to be like the little boy running around the neighborhood with a box of matches.  The community, of course, fears that he might light a fire near them.  But more likely, his own home is at greater risk.  Would that his friends had the courage and where-with-all to put a stop to his reckless behavior.

A commendable exception.  Geraldo Rivera, a Fox News regular and a proclaimed liberal, appeared last week on the morning Fox and Friends show, usually a platform for unequivocal cheerleading, and took the President to task.  “I’m calling on my friend to swallow his pride and apologize to this woman”.  [Trump had made reference to Mika’s bleeding facelift.]