Donald
Trump has the schoolyard bully’s talent for ranking people out. “Ranking out”
was the term we used for putting down other kids back in Queens in 1960. One
rank out phrase I recall sounds picturesque by the standards of these days: I’ll rank you so low you’ll play handball
against the curb.
Trump
brought the art of ranking people out to the national political stage with—
·
Low
Energy Jeb Bush
·
Little
Marco
·
Lyin’
Ted
·
Crooked
Hillary
·
Little
Rocket Man
·
Liddle’
Bob Corker
But the
name Moron Don finally sticks to
Donald Trump And, funny thing, Rex Tillerson used the phrase behind closed
doors. Tillerson never intended the insult to fall upon Don’s ears. And
especially didn’t plan for the rank-out to go viral and be heard by the ears of
the world.
The key
to a really good insult is its accuracy—and Moron Don fits Donald Trump
surprisingly well.
Moron:
1. A person having an I.Q. of
50-69 and judged incapable of developing beyond a mental age of 8-12.
2. Informal any stupid person or a
person lacking in good judgment.
Why does moron work so well for Mr. Trump. Well,
there’s something loose and freewheeling about a moron. Moron Don rolls along—put
your hands in the air, like you just don’t care. Don doesn’t care but he is sensitive
about native intelligence. Donald Trump may be the master of street smarts but he’s
no Henry Kissinger when it comes to world history or in the arena of books
smarts.
But Bob
Corker, the senator from Tennessee, comes along just in time. Corker, like
Superman, steps into the void and leaps tall building. Corker, a voice of
reason and courage, hurtles into the ball of confusion with no fear of Trump
the schoolyard bully. Maybe it’s all about the name—corker!
Corker:
1. a person who thing or thing that
corks.
2.
Slang someone of astonishing talent or
excellent quality.
Let’s
just hope that Bob Corker keeps corking
along…
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