Trump's cowardice Archives

Don’s Done Debatin’

September 13, 2024 Buck Banks

To do it again would be tempting fate,
And his performance still wouldn’t be great.
Trump insists he won,
But now says just one and done.
So there ain’t gonna be another Trump-Harris debate.

Trump Threatens to Back Out of Sept. 10 Debate with Harris

August 26, 2024 Buck Banks

“Our understanding is that Trump’s handlers prefer the muted microphone because they don’t think their candidate can act presidential for 90 minutes on his own.”

— Harris campaign adviser Brian Fallon, quoted by Politico, on Donald Trump threatening to back out of the September 10 debate.

It’s Nice to Have Plouffe on the Harris Team

August 4, 2024 Buck Banks

“Donald Trump is cowardly backing out of the debate he agreed to. One just like the debate he did in June. Now, he seems only comfortable in a cocoon, asking his happy place Fox to host a Trump rally and call it a debate. Maybe he can only handle debating someone his own age.”

— Harris campaign adviser David Plouffe, on X.

Christie Asserts that Trump Is Afraid of Him

August 22, 2023 Buck Banks

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Don’s Done Debatin’

Trump Threatens to Back Out of Sept. 10 Debate with Harris

“Our understanding is that Trump’s handlers prefer the muted microphone because they don’t think their candidate can act presidential for 90 minutes on his own.”

— Harris campaign adviser Brian Fallon, quoted by Politico, on Donald Trump threatening to back out of the September 10 debate.

It’s Nice to Have Plouffe on the Harris Team

“Donald Trump is cowardly backing out of the debate he agreed to. One just like the debate he did in June. Now, he seems only comfortable in a cocoon, asking his happy place Fox to host a Trump rally and call it a debate. Maybe he can only handle debating someone his own age.”

— Harris campaign adviser David Plouffe, on X.

Christie Asserts that Trump Is Afraid of Him

“He’s scared of me.”

— Chris Christie, quoted by Politico, on Donald Trump skipping the Republican presidential debate.

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“If I were you, Mr. President, I would kill the leadership that are killing the people.”

— Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), on Fox News, urging President Trump to kill Iran’s supreme leader.

“A tyrannical theocracy has shut down the internet for an entire country so the world can’t see the brutal tactics it plans to use to crush a free Iran. In my view, this is the biggest free-speech story in the world right now.”

— Greg Lukianoff, head of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, on X.

— Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ), in an interview with The Atlantic, on President Trump threatening to take over Greenland.

Numerati

15 million

335,000

New data reveals that a staggering 335,000 federal workers left government work last year, with the vast majority quitting or retiring — only 11,000 were a result of layoffs from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, the Washington Post reports.

10%

$1.5 trillion

33%

One in three Americans approve of the U.S. military strike on Venezuela that toppled the country’s president and 72% worry the U.S. will become too involved in the South American country, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll.