President Donald Trump called Attorney General Jeff Sessions “mentally retarded” and a “dumb Southerner” who “couldn’t even be a one-person country lawyer down in Alabama,” according to a Washington Post report on an advance copy of Bob Woodward’s White House memoir “Fear.”
This the second recent report of Trump mocking Sessions’ intelligence and geographical origins, as Politico reported last week that Trump hates Sessions’ “marble mouth” accent and his lack of Ivy League pedigree.
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“You’re dumb and you talk dumb and you sound like an idiot” is maybe not the right stone to throw, Very Stable Genius.
There is nothing I can read or hear that will make me feel any sympathy for Sessions - he is doing tremendous damage to the Justice Department. Trump’s insults, as always, are neither surprising or clever. I hope there are things of more substance to come out of Woodward’s book than Trump insulting people and people insulting Trump.
Gotta spread these out! It’ll be a nice tonic to the SCOTUS hearings, though, to have a bunch of “(petty insults between awful Trump people), according to Bob Woodward’s new book” articles this week.
Trump should fear Woodward’s book. It’s killing what’s left of someone’s mind.
The WAPO article says most of the book deals with substantive policy stuff (Muslim Ban! Trade Wars! Locking up children in cages! You know, Trump policy.