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Writer: Rex Huppke
rhuppke@chicagotribune.com
Trump's attacks on McCain and Conway are truly bringing dignity back to the presidency
Since Donald Trump became president, so many amazing things have happened, according to Donald Trump.
But the thing I most appreciate is how he has, at long last, restored dignity to the office of the presidency.
Why, just Wednesday morning, he responded to criticism from the husband of one of his top advisers, Kellyanne Conway, by dignifiedly tweeting: “George Conway, often referred to as Mr. Kellyanne Conway by those who know him, is VERY jealous of his wife’s success & angry that I, with her help, didn’t give him the job he so desperately wanted. I barely know him but just take a look, a stone cold LOSER & husband from hell!”
This is a textbook presidential display of dignity. In fact, there’s an entire chapter on it in my soon-to-be-published book “Presidential Dignity Throughout American History” that recalls how, during the 1860 presidential campaign, Abraham Lincoln sent what was known then as a “parchment tweet” describing his Southern Democratic opponent John Breckinridge as a “TOTALLY STUPID LOSER and henpecked husband from hades!”
A total class act.
In other recent acts of dignity, Trump has resumed his attacks on John McCain, a war hero and longtime Republican senator who died of brain cancer last August.
From the Oval Office on Tuesday, Trump said: “I was never a fan of John McCain, and I never will be.” Over the weekend, he falsely referred to the senator in a tweet as “‘last in his class’ (Annapolis) John McCain.”
Any student of presidential dignity knows that a true statesman waits until after a highly respected politician and war hero is dead and unable to defend himself before insulting that politician’s intelligence and telling the world you hate him.
In a series of more than 50 dignity-heavy tweets this weekend, the president of the United State of America attacked: an Ohio union president; a former secretary of state (“Crooked Hillary”); a former Vice President Joe Biden (“low I.Q. individual”); the entire Democratic Party (“The Radical Left Democrats”); “Saturday Night Live” ("not funny/no talent”); and the free press (“Corrupt Media” and “FAKE NEWS MEDIA!”)
He also achieved peak office-of-the-presidency dignity by retweeting comedian Larry the Cable Guy, who was retweeting actor and conspiracy theory peddler James Woods.
It’s just refreshing to have a president who gets the basic standards of American political decency and decorum.
Unlike that former occupant of the White House, Barack “Hussein” Obama.
Remember back in 2015 when Obama appeared in a lighthearted BuzzFeed video promoting the Affordable Care Act? It was disgraceful, and it led Fox News host Greta Van Susteren to say: “I yearn for my president looking presidential and serious right now.”
She was white about that. The yearning was so great.
Also in 2015, Obama de-dignified the office of the presidency by allowing himself to be interviewed by three popular YouTube stars, who asked him questions on foreign policy, education and other issues.
Conservative radio host and dignity warrior Rush Limbaugh declared: “You talk about beneath the dignity of the office, maybe setting a new low. President Obama with YouTube interviews.”
It’s a wonder the nation managed to recover.
In 2014, Republican House Speaker John Boehner described Obama’s use of “execution action” in an op-ed published on CNN’s website: “It is utterly beneath the dignity of the office.”
(Obama’s executive actions were notably different from Trump’s recent executive action to circumvent Congress and fund a border wall because Trump’s executive action is heroic and, if anything, above the dignity of the office.)
For all intents and purposes, Obama sucked the dignity out of the office of the presidency.
So we should thank our lucky stars that President Trump has now filled the Oval Office to its rooftop with dignity by appropriately labeling people losers, husbands from hell and stupid dead war heroes.
Trump has done it his way. And we can conclude from the past comments of Obama’s many critics — those who now praise Trump’s behavior as bold and authentic — that Trump’s approach is truly the white way to preserve the dignity of the office.
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