Warning: This opinion piece features profane language, as originally
expressed by those quoted here.
NEW YORK — Promisekeeper. Peacemaker. President.
Say what you will about Donald J. Trump. The president of
the United States is focused on big things. He is keeping his promises to
restore prosperity to a nation that endured eight years of economic stasis
under Obama. Trump is making America competitive again, in part through robust
deregulation. He is slashing taxes and launched a game-changing 21 percent
corporate levy. The commander-in-chief is giving veterans broader choices in
healthcare and making it easier to sack VA staffers who fail them. Trump is
freeing terminally ill patients to try experimental drugs that the FDA
previously denied them. The president is filling the federal courts with
constitutionalist jurists.
One statistic epitomizes President Trump’s domestic
achievements: Adult female unemployment is at its lowest level since 1953 —
during the Korean War.
In an almost poetic parallel, Trump has spent this week
trying to cool the embers of that very conflict, which, 65 years later, endures
— at least on paper. His meeting in Singapore with North Korean despot Kim
Jong-un is a personal best — light years from The Apprentice — and with the
potential for enormous good for Koreans and Americans alike.
While President Trump works on major initiatives like these,
his opponents are sinking into a swamp of unprecedented verbal ugliness. The
very same people who moan about Trump allegedly demolishing civil discourse
have mouths like sewers and thoughts to match.
- “First, I wanna say, ‘Fuck Trump,’” Academy Award-winning
actor Robert DeNiro waxed eloquently at Sunday night’s Tony Awards. “It’s no
longer ‘Down with Trump.’ It’s ‘Fuck Trump.’” The crowd of show people roared
their approval. They further signaled their liberal tolerance by giving these
words a standing ovation.
But what, exactly, did this obscene outburst accomplish? Did
this foul rant get anyone anywhere? Did these bad words get Trump’s supporters
to think about how he might perform his job even better? Did they help
independent voters weigh Trump’s shortcomings or suggest a brighter path for
America? These questions answer themselves.
- Not content to slam the president, “comedian” Samantha Bee
recently used a taped appearance on TBS’ Full Frontal to react to a photo of
Ivanka Trump holding her young son. Bee called Ivanka a “feckless cunt” — the
“c-word” doing for women what the “n-word” does for blacks. Bee also filthily
suggested that some incestuous sexual relationship exists between the president
and First Daughter.
- Atlantic magazine senior editor David Frum on June 2 took
to the ever-elevating Twitter platform to hypothesize about when a president
could be prosecuted for obstruction of justice. As Frum wondered:
“Suppose President Trump punched the First Lady in the White
House (federal property = federal jurisdiction), then ordered the Secret
Service to conceal the assault. POTUS has Article II authority over Secret
Service. Is that obstruction? Under Sekulow/Dowd, apparently NO.”
Frum could have raised the same bizarre point, perhaps with
Trump, in the Oval Office, hurling the Resolute Desk’s stapler at Attorney
General Jeff Sessions. Trump very publicly has expressed disappointment with
Sessions. In this scenario: violence? Yes. Spousal abuse? No.
Instead, Frum invoked the image of Trump beating his wife in
the White House. And he did this even as the First Lady was out of the
limelight, recuperating from kidney surgery.
Sick.
- Meanwhile, HBO’s Bill Maher prays that an economic
downturn dislodges President Trump.
“I’m hoping for it because one way you get rid of Trump is a
crashing economy. So please, bring on the recession,” Maher said June 8 on Real
Time. “Sorry if that hurts people, but it’s either root for a recession or you
lose your democracy….I feel like the bottom has to fall out at some point.”
- Impoverishing his fellow Americans is insufficient for
John Cusack. The highly under-rated actor — whose ample dramatic and comedic
gifts should be better deployed — demands insurrection against America’s duly
elected president.
“Let’s go to streets,” Cusack insisted June 6 via Twitter.
“Who owns the streets? Civil disobedience. Require the government to leave if
you are not satisfied with it. We need to kick Trump out of the office now.
He’s ill, deranged and dangerous. He’s putting children in cages — fuck the
Nazi s [sic] — shut them down.”
Cusack’s proposed method for removing President Trump “now,”
via neither impeachment nor the 2020 election, seems — at first glance
—extra-constitutional.
“Gotta vote out the death kult and every single enabler,”
Cusack added, misspellings and all. “And We gotta shut down trump – scare the
shit out of them – get children out of cages.”
“Cages” likely referred to photos of illegal-alien children
being fenced in pens under federal custody. These pictures emerged lately,
sparked Leftist rage, and confirmed Trump’s Third World-level commitment to
human rights.
Actually, these snapshots proved no such thing. The children
in cages were photographed in 2014, inside facilities operated by the Obama
Administration.
Cusack seems to live the title of his 1989 hit film Say
Anything.
Last year, he posted a picture whose text read: “Yer dead —
get yerself buried.” He then captioned the photo, “Message for Trump.”
After complaints mounted, Cusack erased the Twitter post and
wrote: “Really:) I’m a non violence person but politically – crazy lying
administration is dead.”
Repulsive.
As President Donald J. Trump grows in his position, his
detractors shrivel into nitpicking, profane, irrelevant babies.
Deroy Murdock is a Manhattan-based Fox News contributor and
emeritus media fellow with the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace
at Stanford University.
