What in the name of all that is petulant do we make of this latest development in one of the strangest political campaigns in anyone’s memory?
Donald J. Trump, the frontrunner for the Republican Party’s presidential nominating campaign, is going to skip a GOP debate coming up Thursday, according to his campaign manager.
Why? He doesn’t like the moderator. He doesn’t think the moderator, Fox News’s Megyn Kelly, will treat him fairly.
Trump is demonstrating a level of narcissism that, frankly, takes my breath away.
During the first GOP debate, Kelly started the questioning by asking Trump about some statements he’d made about women. It went downhill from there. In a hurry!
And it hasn’t gotten any better.
Trump now is sounding like a candidate who actually fears a journalist who — during that first debate — was just doing her job.
OK, Trump won’t say he fears Kelly. It just looks that way.
This is astonishing in the extreme. A man who says he wants to become commander in chief of the world’s most powerful military establishment, who wants to become head of state of the world’s most exceptional nation, who wants to tackle the most difficult problems any human being ever can confront is now going to boycott a debate because he doesn’t like the moderator.
Amazing.
I am done projecting that the latest Trump stunt spells the end of his campaign. I thought that moment had come many times before, only to be proven wrong by those poll numbers and the so-called “loyalty” of Trump’s supporters.
They have confounded almost everyone with an interest in this presidential campaign.
Me included.
Trump is fond of calling his opponents and critics “losers.”
He now wears that label himself. My guess is that he’s so very proud of himself. For what? For chickening out of facing difficult questions from a broadcast journalist.