(12-07-2018, 08:46 PM)Rajvik Wrote:(12-05-2018, 02:21 PM)Bob Schroeck Wrote: I spoke too soon. Admittedly, it's not a big thing, but it's still a dick move. Apparently two and a half hours of praise for someone else, without a single mention of his name, was too much for Trump to stand.
Bob, with all due respect, I think that was just another example of the media not being able to accept that Trump CAN actually due good things. Or do CNN/MSNBC talking heads really think they can read minds.
Rajvik, at what point does a currently sitting POTUS skip out early on the funeral for a former POTUS? It's a slight against the Bush family at best, and the epitome of narcissism at worse. No amount of spin can dress this up. There were no pressing emergencies to attend to. No unaccountable threats were at large. There was nothing keeping him from attending that funeral in its entirety.
It doesn't help matters any that this is a Red on Red crime (metaphorically speaking). Trump should hold no ill will against Bush - he was not to blame for the Savings and Loan Crisis that torpedoed quite a few of Trump's ventures. That crisis was a long time in coming, seeded in Cold War defense spending and LBJ's "Great Society" programs, and hurried along by careless deregulation and, to be quite frank, simple greed.
And on top of it all, Trump actually has a past history of bad-mouthing the departed - he did so of his two executives that died in a helicopter crash, disparaging their abilities.
This isn't an example of the media being unfair to Trump. This is, however, a prime example of Trump being Trump.