The 17 most outlandish lines from Donald Trump s attack on Karl Rove CNN 3/5/2021 Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large © Spencer Platt/Getty Images Karl Rove, former deputy chief of staff and senior policy adviser to former US President George W. Bush, walks on the floor before the start of the second day of the Republican National Convention on August 28, 2012 in Tampa, Florida.
On Thursday night, Donald Trump issued a, um, statement in which he savaged Karl Rove, a longtime Republican strategist who rose to prominence as the political Svengali for George W. Bush.
The statement read like a series of Trumpian tweets strung together untruths, exaggerations, bullying, preening etc. (Trump was banned from Twitter shortly after the January 6 riot at the US Capitol.) I went through it line by line. The, er, best(?) are below.
President Trump Continues The Big Ugly, Now Turns Toward Karl Rove
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Trump issues lengthy rant about veteran Republican Karl Rove after strategist criticises him
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As political leaders, Benito Mussolini and Donald Trump were macho men. Although the latter is no longer president, his mindset still rages across the nation and needs to be replaced by a nobler view of manhood.
Among the first twentieth-century macho leaders, Mussolini, who was “something of a rapist” and eventually claimed to have had 169 mistresses, was the most significant. Emphasizing virility and war, he once said, “War is to man what motherhood is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.”
In her book
Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present, Ruth Ben-Ghiat treats the Italian dictator as the first of many machismo rulers. Among others are former heads of state like Augusto Pinochet Ugarte of Chile, Silvio Berlusconi of Italy, and now Trump, as well as present rulers like Vladimir Putin of Russia, Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil, Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines, and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Turkey. She beli