Gail Collins, NYT: Trump called me a 'dog and a liar' with the 'face of a pig'
From her column yesterday:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/29/opinion/ive-overestimated-donald-trump.html
Back in the day, he sent me a copy of a column he objected to, with some notes suggesting I was a “dog and a liar” with “the face of a pig.”
I’ve had many opportunities to make use of that story since Trump became a presidential candidate, so it’s all fine for me. However, I have to admit that it did not occur to me he’d keep doing that kind of stuff as president of the United States.
The latest story involves Trump taking umbrage at the MSNBC “Morning Joe” hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough. So he took to Twitter, insulting them both and claiming that Brzezinski had come to Mar-a-Lago “bleeding badly from a face-lift.” Both she and Scarborough are plenty capable of taking care of themselves. But the country is, you know, sort of a different matter.
Every time one of these tweeting disasters occurs, it reminds us that the United States president has no more discernible self-control than a 10-year-old bully who works out his failure to pass third grade by tormenting the little kids on the playground.
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There is plenty of video footage of him over the past 40 years. He was very much entwined in the entertainment and media world as part of his "brand" and through his quest for real estate transactions that involved entertainment venues and products (pageants, wrestling/boxing).
He has NOT changed a single iota and "did that kind of stuff" unflinchingly, non-stop over that entire period of time and was rewarded for it. So why should he suddenly stop now with his latest "venture" dabbling in political office? It was a "winning formula" then and it is obviously a "winning formula" now, notably since the entire GOP continues to back him and prop him up. 
