Donald Trump can’t dunk.
The lane was clear. The rim undefended. All Trump had to do was drive to the basket, climb up the step-ladder placed generously in the paint for his benefit, and dunk the basketball. He stopped at half-court instead and inexplicably launched an air ball into the stands.
The missed opportunity in question here is obviously Trump’s attacks on Rep. Maxine Waters, the anti-democratic California Democrat currently advocating for mob justice.
Congresswoman Maxine Waters, an extraordinarily low IQ person, has become, together with Nancy Pelosi, the Face of the Democrat Party. She has just called for harm to supporters, of which there are many, of the Make America Great Again movement. Be careful what you wish for Max!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 25, 2018
Waters is that rare Democrat so distant from reality she actually does more to help her opponents than hurt them. Her call to harass members of the president’s cabinet is a gift to a GOP desperate to maintain their majorities because her personal attacks are so odious that Republicans could use them to dismiss liberals as corrupt, petty, and vengeful all at once.
But Trump didn’t do that. No, this president chose to insult her intelligence, because this president deals with everything in personal terms. This is a shame, because while discussing the precise intelligence quotient of Waters is obviously impossible, it is possible and it is worthwhile to highlight her dishonesty.
After all, Waters has no room to lecture Republicans on ethical grounds. She made her grandson her chief of staff and she used federal dollars to save her own money. At the height of the financial crisis, as the New York Times reported at the time, Waters helped bail out a bank her husband owned stock in. If the Treasury Department didn’t come through with a $12 million loan, Waters and her husband could have lost as much as $350,000.
That is a cut and dry, copy and paste example of clear corruption. At the very least, Trump could have rebuffed her on these grounds. He didn’t. Instead the president attacked her intelligence, wasting another perfect opportunity.
