I quietly agree with Trump on one thing |
“A lunatic was wildly screaming expletives in a complete fit of rage.” This is not a commentary on Donald Trump’s singular approach to global diplomacy (of which more later), though it might well have been.
It was actually how the White House communications chief, Steven Cheung, described an incident yesterday when Trump visited a Ford car factory in Michigan and a heckler called him a “paedophile protector”.
Trump’s response to the heckler, who was calling him out over his handling of the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, was to apparently shout “F*** you” back, before walking off, nonchalantly giving his verbal assailant the middle finger. Mr Cheung called Trump’s action “an appropriate and unambiguous response”. (The “lunatic” to whom Mr Cheung referred was the heckler, not the President, in case you were confused.)
Rarely has Trump been accused of ambiguity, but of course, this was the opposite of appropriate. It was a coarse........