"Don't talk to me that way, you're just a lightweight, don't talk to me that way. I'm the president of the United States. Don't ever talk to the president that way," barked featherweight Trump at Reuters correspondent Jeff Mason yesterday as the reporter attempted to press him on his absurd claims of "massive" election fraud — and yet profoundly true implication that he has been conducting himself as would a tinpot dictator in a "third world country."
The latter point I'll give to Trump in full, but only a half-point to his opening remark of "Don't ever talk to the president that way." A more precise comeback would have been, don't ever talk that way to a president, which he is not. He's nothing but America's aforementioned, authoritarian embarrassment before the world — the civilized nations of which are delighted to be rid of him — and negligent homicidal sociopath.
And had I been Reuters' reporter at Trump's abhorrent press conference yesterday, I would have told him that, Reuters' paycheck or no. And that's why I'm no more a Reuters' reporter than Trump is a president of the United States.