Ive been treated very unfairly by the RNC, Donald Trump told CNNs Anderson Cooper, in a townhall forum that Trump threatened to boycott because he complained that CNN treated him unfairly. What did CNN do to treat Trump unfairly? They had commentators on panels that criticized him. What did the RNC do to treat Trump unfairly, and thus negate his pledge to support the partys nominee whoever it turned out to be? Er Mitt Romney criticized him.
No, really:
Lets face it The Pledge has been a joke for some time. It served a purpose until the primaries started, which was to keep Trump from bailing out of the GOP process and launching a third-party bid. Over the last couple of months, though, its been clear that Trump is too self-absorbed to rally troops on behalf of someone else, and too thin-skinned to accept criticism, let alone defeat. No one who has paid any attention to Trumps antics over the past year could possibly have thought that Trump would campaign for someone else, or even have anything nice to say about someone who beat him to the nomination.
If Trump thought Cooper would be sympathetic to this kind of argument, he got a surprise tonight. Cooper dressed him down for acting like a child when it came to the War Of The Wives:
Cooper asked Trump about his ongoing feud with rival Ted Cruz, which started after an anti-Trump super PAC circulated a racy image of Trumps wife, Melania. Trump later retweeted an image of Melania next to Cruzs wife, Heidi, in what Cooper called an unflattering pose. Trump said he thought the photo of Heidi was nice, and when pressed by Cooper, said, I didnt start it.
Cooper responded by telling the Republican frontrunner with all due respect, thats the argument of a 5-year-old, adding that every parent knows that. Thats the problem, Trump retorted. Exactly that thinking is the problem this country has. I didnt start this, he started this.
If Trump believes that the RNC staged Mitt Romneys criticism to make him look bad, does anyone think for a moment that Trump would take a loss at the convention as just the breaks of a well-fought contest? Puh-leeeeeeze. Trump either spikes the ball, or he takes it and goes home. There is no room in his world for another quarterback, and anything but cheerleading is all the evidence Trump needs to claim victimhood.
With Trump, you get to keep the 2nd Amendment. Without him you get Hillary, and a Democrat Supreme Court.
Bye-bye corporations as people. Bye-bye gun rights.
It's all linked in train, like cars on a cable, forcing you to choose between someone you can't stand, and policy positions that, once lost, will never be recaptured again.