Stripped of his magical Twitter super-powers ....
Raging Trump fires off blistering statement in response to Wall Street Journal editorialStripped of his magical Twitter super-powers, Donald Trump has now been reduced to trolling his ever-expanding list of enemies through paltry and less prominent press releases that create a media filter between the humiliated former president and his adoring base.
Besides creating a large time lag between when Trump is initially offended by a politician, celebrity, or media outlet and when he is able to shoot back with some bullying, semi-coherent response to his detractors, the limited effectiveness of press releases in disseminating his unfiltered vitriolic messages has reduced his overall media presence outside the confines of the extremist right-wing news outlets frequented by his base.
It’s not surprising, therefore, that Trump’s latest jeremiad targeting the editorial board of The Wall Street Journal, the Rupert Murdoch-owned financial newspaper of record, has attracted so little attention.
The financial world conservative intellectuals at the Journal had published an editorial earlier this week urging the Republican Party to move on from the candidate that somehow managed to help their party lose control of both houses of Congress and the White House in the course of four short years.
It is the sort of sensible response to having their favored party bet on a losing horse, albeit one who continues to scream “I won!” while finishing furlongs behind the actual winner like some ersatz Mr. Ed.
Although The Wall Street Journal published its editorial on Monday, it took Trump eons in social media time to respond to ...
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