Maxine Waters Goes off the Deep End, Publicly Calls Trump 'Embarrassing UnAmerican Traitor'
With friends like these, Joe Biden needs help — badly.
In a paroxysm of social media outrage so exaggerated that her spit practically comes through the computer screen, U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters took to Twitter this week to attack President Donald Trump as an “embarrassing unAmerican traitor.”
But as is usually the way with Waters, all she ended up embarrassing was herself.
Previously best known for incessant calls for Trump’s impeachment and demanding mob violence against members of his administration, California’s most excitable congresswoman was set off this time by a Trump tweet making fun of former Vice President Biden, the clear front-runner in the Democrats’ clown car of contenders for the 2020 nomination.
While on his visit to Japan last week, Trump commented on North Korean missile testing in early May, making it clear he didn’t think the activity was a serious threat.
North Korea fired off some small weapons, which disturbed some of my people, and others, but not me. I have confidence that Chairman Kim will keep his promise to me, & also smiled when he called Swampman Joe Biden a low IQ individual, & worse. Perhaps that’s sending me a signal?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 26, 2019
Naturally, Waters didn’t take the crack about Biden well at all.
Trump is an embarrassing unAmerican traitor! How dare he denounce and belittle VP Biden on foreign soil on Memorial Day! How can these spineless Republicans look their spouses and children in the face and claim to teach them patriotism?
— Maxine Waters (@RepMaxineWaters) May 28, 2019
First of all, denouncing and belittling Joe Biden is a fairly easy thing to do for anyone who can read, watch television or fog a mirror while in bed. The guy who’s supported by frightening numbers of Democrats for the presidency has spent decades building a reputation for sticking his foot in his mouth.
(And placing his hands where they don’t belong either.)
And second of all, as Trump pointed out in a Twitter post mocking the Democrats’ fake outrage at the original post, what he said wasn’t nearly as bad as what North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un had called Biden.
I was actually sticking up for Sleepy Joe Biden while on foreign soil. Kim Jong Un called him a “low IQ idiot,” and many other things, whereas I related the quote of Chairman Kim as a much softer “low IQ individual.” Who could possibly be upset with that?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 28, 2019
And that’s when Waters’ frothing really got going.
America’s disgraceful president is totally out of control! He is now supporting murderous dictator Kim Jong Un who is testing ballistic missiles and threatening the United States. Does Trump’s desire to be a dictator supercede the security of his own country?
— Maxine Waters (@RepMaxineWaters) May 28, 2019
Low life Trump – lying, crooked, tax evader, porn star fornicator – should take his ridiculous self home, resign, and free us of what we will have to do to impeach him and throw him out of office!
— Maxine Waters (@RepMaxineWaters) May 28, 2019
That’s quite a string of insults for a woman whose party hasn’t exactly covered itself with glory when it comes to presidents and presidential contenders.
Its previous presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, beat an FBI investigation of her email use as secretary of state only because the intelligence community, the mainstream television networks, countless newspaper editorial boards and just about every other bastion of legal and cultural power were on her side.
She still lost where it mattered – with the American people at the ballot box.
The previous president, Barack Obama, was actually the kind of autocrat Democrats accuse Trump of being. He spied on the media, used executive actions to try to shred the Constitution and weaponized federal agencies such as the IRS against American citizens. Like Hillary Clinton, he got a pass for all his scandals because he had a “D” after his name.
And a disgracefully lickspittle press corps carried his water for eight years.
As for the Democratic president before that, fella who was also named Clinton, he was the guy impeached for actually committing a crime that he was guilty of. (Not that Democrats really give a damn about legal niceties, then or now.)
Naturally, Waters’ tweet-storm drew its own response (though none make the reader feel like reaching for a handkerchief to wipe away the saliva).
— Chicks On The Right (@chicksonright) May 29, 2019
They really have to start differentiating the parody accounts from the real ones better on here.
For a second I thought this was her real account.
— derek schwartz (@derek_mafs) May 29, 2019
Woman!! You are an embarrassment!
— Kev B (@kevnmontana) May 30, 2019
It does sound strange, but in the American political world of 2019, crazed congresswomen from California feel no compunction about making public spectacles of themselves to defend the buffoon who could well be the next Democratic nominee for president.
Because a president known for insulting his political foes decided to do it again.
It’s going to be a long year in any case, but with friends like these, Joe Biden’s going to need even more help from the media than usual.
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