{"id":11616,"date":"2023-05-31T10:41:06","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T17:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/muthstruths.com\/?p=11616"},"modified":"2023-05-31T10:41:06","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T17:41:06","slug":"trump-fatigue-the-milktoast-that-broke-the-donalds-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/muthstruths.com\/trump-fatigue-the-milktoast-that-broke-the-donalds-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Fatigue: The Milktoast that Broke The Donald\u2019s Back"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(Chuck Muth)<\/em> \u2013 A couple days ago, I wrote critically about Ron DeSantis\u2019<\/strong> official campaign launch. I concluded that I wasn\u2019t yet sure Donald Trump<\/strong> could win the presidential general election next year, but that I also wasn\u2019t yet sure if Ron DeSantis could beat him in the GOP primary.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve changed my mind.<\/p>\n

It ain\u2019t gonna be no walk in the park, but I can now see a path to victory in the primary for DeSantis.\u00a0 Here\u2019s the straw that broke the camel\u2019s back for me\u2026<\/p>\n

At a campaign rally in Iowa back in 2016, Trump infamously declared that he \u201ccould stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn\u2019t lose voters.\u201d And there was some truth to that.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s loyalists are exceptionally passionate defenders, especially when it comes to the former president being attacked unmercifully and hatefully by the mainstream media and the left. But I repeat myself.<\/p>\n

And while Trump did a lot of great things for the country during his four years in office, he also pulled a lot of boners.\u00a0 But back then, loyalists bit their tongues rather than give fodder to the conservative movement\u2019s enemies who were hellbent on his, and our, destruction.<\/p>\n

Think: Anthony Fauci<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s refusal to get rid of Fauci during COVID probably cost him the 2020 election.\u00a0 Fauci was the King of the Swamp People.\u00a0 But instead of flushing this turd down the drain, he let him linger in the bowl, stinking up the place to high heaven.<\/p>\n

Just as badly, Trump\u2019s efforts to \u201cdrain the swamp\u201d consisted of replacing DC swamp creatures with his own swamp creatures, including family members and associates \u2013 such as California Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom\u2019s<\/strong> ex-wife, Kimberly Gilfoyle<\/strong> – who had no street cred for either conservative politics or running the government.<\/p>\n

Remember when he appointed Omarosa Manigault Newman<\/strong>, an obnoxious former contestant on his Apprentice<\/em> TV show, to a position in the White House because she \u201csaid nice things about him\u201d?<\/p>\n

Meet the new swamp creatures; same as the old swamp creatures.<\/p>\n

Contrast that with what Ronald Reagan<\/strong> did upon ascending into the Oval Office.\u00a0 He drained the Heritage Foundation think-tank, and others, of solid conservatives to fill his administration.\u00a0 As the saying goes, personnel is policy.<\/p>\n

To be fair, there were also some stellar Trump appointments, starting with his choice of Mike Pence<\/strong> as vice president.\u00a0 Pence was a solid conservative soldier and there was no stronger defender of the president during the four turbulent years of his administration.<\/p>\n

But after that post-election policy disagreement \u2013 in which both sides had legitimate differences of opinion \u2013 Trump tossed him off the back of the boat, making sure he landed on the propellers so he\u2019d be chewed up as bloody shark chum.<\/p>\n

With Trump, loyalty is a one-way street.\u00a0 You\u2019re either with him 100% – all the time, every time – or you\u2019re gonna get a nickname.<\/p>\n

Which brings me to Kayleigh McEnany<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

McEnany was one of Trump\u2019s four press secretaries.\u00a0 She was thrown into the lion\u2019s den just days after Trump locked down the country, under advice from Fauci, for \u201c15 days to slow the spread\u201d of COVID.<\/p>\n

Talk about a baptism by fire!<\/p>\n

McEnany was sharp-tongued, quick-witted, and always loaded for bear when dealing with rabid, jihadist reporters, especially the insufferable Jim Acosta<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

In one of the many memorable clashes with CNN\u2019s leading jackass, the buffoon challenged McEnany with an accusation that Trump was trying to \u201csilence fact-checking\u201d by the media.<\/p>\n

McEnany didn\u2019t miss a beat. And it was a thing of beauty.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you\u2019re going to get into the fact-checking business,\u201d she volleyed back, \u201cthere\u2019s no one that should be fact-checked more than the mainstream media that has been continually wrong about a number of things.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTo give you a list of some of the most egregious ones,\u201d she continued, before rattling off one example after another of false media reports, especially by CNN, without having to fumble through pages and pages of talking points in her briefing book to come up with them.<\/p>\n

BOOM!<\/p>\n

\u201cKayleigh McEnany is a role model for conservative women,\u201d Nevada\u2019s own Courtney Holland<\/strong> wrote yesterday.\u00a0 \u201cShe\u2019s a devout Christian, devoted mother & wife, Harvard law grad, author, prime time news host, a staunch defender of America 1st agenda, & one of the best press secretaries we\u2019ve ever seen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Can\u2019t argue with that.\u00a0 So why do I bring this up?<\/p>\n

Well, Kayleigh is now a FOX News host.\u00a0 And in an interview on the \u201cOutnumbered\u201d show yesterday, she reported on polling results showing Trump\u2019s lead over DeSantis in Iowa was 25 percent.<\/p>\n

Pretty good news, right?<\/p>\n

Not for The Donald.<\/p>\n

He had a cow and threw a hissy fit on his Twitter-Lite \u201cTruth Social,\u201d blistering her with his usual Bronx bluster\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cKayleigh \u2018Milktoast\u2019 McEnany just gave out the wrong poll numbers on FoxNews,\u201d he fumed.\u00a0 \u201cI am 34 points up on DeSanctimonious, not 25 up.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe RINOS and Globalists can have her,\u201d he seethed at his new McEnemy. \u00a0\u201cFoxNews should only use REAL Stars!!!\u201d<\/p>\n

RINO is a pejorative acronym for \u201cRepublicans in Name Only.\u201d\u00a0 I know a RINO when I see one – and Kayleigh ain\u2019t it.<\/p>\n

And she ain\u2019t \u201cMilktoast\u201d (it\u2019s actually spelled \u201cmilquetoast,\u201d by the way) either.\u00a0 She\u2019s a hard-core conservative warrior with bigger cojones than most men \u2013 especially men who \u201cidentify\u201d as women.<\/p>\n

Indeed, on May 1, 2019 \u2013 on the one-year anniversary of her double-mastectomy at the tender age of 30 \u2013 she wrote bravely about her agonizing and horrifying experience\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cOn the morning of May 1, 2018, I woke up knowing that the day I had anticipated for nine years had finally arrived. It was the day of my preventative double mastectomy \u2013 the day I would attack my BRCA 2 genetic mutation head-on and take my chances of breast cancer from 84 percent to virtually zero.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cMilktoast\u201d?\u00a0 I don\u2019t think so.<\/p>\n

Of course, the same die-hard Trumpers who would stick with him if he shot somebody in the middle of 5th<\/sup> Avenue rallied to his defense.<\/p>\n

For example, Laura \u201cLooney Tune\u201d Loomer<\/strong>, a self-professed \u201cinvestigative journalist,\u201d called Kayleigh a \u201cdisgusting Trump hater,\u201d a \u201chussy\u201d and a \u201cbackstabbing witch.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yes, the hard-core are going to continue defending Trump even when his acts and words against conservatives are indefensible \u2013 like what he did yesterday to McEnany.<\/p>\n

But a growing number of Trump supporters are starting to suffer from a severe case of \u201cTrump Fatigue.\u201d\u00a0 And there\u2019s no \u201cFauci Ouchie\u201d vax to stop the spread.\u00a0 Worse for Trump, they\u2019re no longer biting their tongues.\u00a0 Those tongues are wagging now.<\/p>\n

Enough for a major upset next year?\u00a0 Still a longshot at this point \u2013 whether it\u2019s 25 or 34 percent. \u00a0But I\u2019ll suggest this\u2026<\/p>\n

Over the next eight months, you\u2019re going to see a lot more Trump supporters swing over to DeSantis than DeSantis supporters swing over to Trump. And if DeSantis\u2019 support steadily grows, he could reach critical mass just in time for the early state primaries.<\/p>\n

Trump knows it.\u00a0 You can smell his fear and panic. That\u2019s why he\u2019s going scorched-earth on anybody and everybody who\u2019s not 100% with him – all the time, every time.<\/p>\n

If Trump pulls a Hindenburg next year, history may well record yesterday as the day the Milktoast broke The Donald\u2019s back.\u00a0 Indeed, if the GOP primary election was held today, after what Trump did to Kayleigh yesterday, I\u2019d be casting my ballot for Ron DeSantis.<\/p>\n

And I wouldn\u2019t be alone.<\/p>\n

P.S. The \u201cunsubscribe\u201d button is at the bottom for those who \u201ccan\u2019t handle the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n

FAMOUS LAST WORDS<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe budget restrictions (in the debt ceiling deal) don\u2019t extend as far into the future as many Republicans had sought, but the GOP can fix that by taking their case to the American people and winning elections.\u201d \u2013 Las Vegas Review-Journal, 5\/31\/23<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Mr. Muth is president of Citizen Outreach, publisher of Nevada News & Views, and founder of CampaignDoctor.com.\u00a0 You can sign up for his conservative, Nevada-focused e-newsletter at MuthsTruths.com.\u00a0 His views are his own.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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