Piers Morgan in an fiery interview calls the sweaty Trump a loser.
Piers Morgan in an fiery interview calls the sweaty Trump a loser.
Trump agreed to do an interview with Piers Morgan. No doubt he thought it would be an easy outing as Morgan has spoken favorably about Trump in the past. But unlike Hannity, who revels in his role as consiglieri for the one-and-done disaster, Morgan is exactly like Trump. He is a sociopath who lives for ratings, controversy, and attention. It soon became evident that in Morgan’s calculation the best publicity he could get was to blindside the aging pugilist with a metaphorical metal folding chair upside the head. Here’s a sample,
Morgan held nothing back when he told Trump the 2020 vote “was a free and fair election. You lost.”
“Only a fool would think that,” Trump retorted.
“You think I’m a fool?” Morgan asked.
“I do now, yeah,” Trump responded.
A later exchange was more of the same.
“With respect, you haven’t produced the hard evidence,” Morgan challenged Trump (Note: when an Englishman says “with respect,” he means the opposite.)
“I don’t think you’re real,” offered Trump in a formulaic dismissal. A tactic he now relies on exclusively has he no longer has the capacity for nuanced thought — or originality.
Morgan also revealed to the New York Post — for whom he is a columnist — that he told the 2020 loser he blamed the deadly Jan 6 Capitol insurrection on Trump’s refusal to admit defeat. To which the orange bellend replied
“Then you’re a fool! And you haven’t studied.”
Once again, a projecting conservative shows that accusation is admission. It is the chutzpah of the self-blind to take their faults and hurl them at their antagonist like an angry ape chucking feces at a foe.
“Fool” was Trump’s go-to slur in the interview. According to Morgan, he used it seven times. And for good measure, he also described Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) as “stupid” and Mike Pence as “foolish and weak.” Contradicting Trump’s estimation of the Senate Republican leader’s mental acuity is the fact that McConnell easily won reelection while his accuser is reduced to a private citizen with grievances to whine about.
And as for the former VP, it is hard to estimate his intelligence as he rarely says anything beyond the anodyne. But his determination on Jan 6th to fulfill his constitutional obligation in the face of a tsunami of criticism from the loser and his fellow travelers — while under siege from a mindless mob yelling “hang Mike Pence” — points to strength, not weakness.
Trump also offered patented inanity by telling his host.
“I’m a very honest man.” Adding, “much more honest than you.”
It is the self-appraisal of a man who is so deluded he believes it. Or is so sociopathic he thinks he can get other people to believe it.
Trump soon decided to cut his losses by fleeing. He announced, “that’s it!” but remained in his seat. Why? He needed to bring up his recent golfing hole-in-one. It is easy to imagine the clashing instincts in his head. Even a surprise twist in the plot could not prevent the uber-egoist from presenting his latest “I’m the greatest” before he laced up his running away shoes.
Having presented his ridiculous self-affirmation, he remembered Morgan had called him a lying loser and told the production to turn the camera off. He then lumbered from the arena a wounded man, muttering imprecations against all - and offered a final “very dishonest’ as he slunk away.
