Trump’s Appalling Attack on Union Leader Chuck Jones Leads to Death Threats

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Donald Trump thinks he is having an awfully rough time of it, having to defend himself on Twitter because he says the media that all but handed him the election is unfair to him, having to personally attack every perceived critic and imagined slight.

So when Indiana steelworker and union leader Chuck Jones called Trump a liar, the thin-skinned egomaniac who is our president-elect, took to twitter to smear the man and put his life in danger.

The man’s perceived sin? He told the truth. And the truth cannot be allowed to stand in the face of Trump’s 30-lie-a-day pace.

Newsweek’s Kurt Eichenwald reacted probably much the same as the rest of us, tweeting,

That simple fact is appalling enough. But awful as the idea of a president taking the time to attack an individual citizen, this attack has put that individual in danger of attacks by that president’s deranged and well-armed supporters:

And not only him, but his children:

Sopan Deb tweeted some particulars:

As John Harwood of CNBC and the NYT points out,

Colonel Morris Davis (ret), Gitmo chief prosecutor 2005-07, made an excellent point, one that has been made also of Trump’s ability to find time to watch SNL:

We have elected a man who has carefully built up a myth about himself. Before, he was operating on the fringes, just hovering on the edge of the spotlight and able to use bullying tactics to maintain his reputation as a tough-as-nails mogul. Now that he is the president-elect, that myth cannot survive contact with the enemy. Or as the rest of us like to think of it: reality.

This is the new America, where a man who is about to become our president will single out individual American citizens and put their lives in danger because he is so thin-skinned he cannot stand a little honest criticism.

In the end, The Guardian‘s Hugo Rifkind gets it right when he says, “No analysis of anything Trump does makes sense without first acknowledging he’s just a really shabby human being.”

Or, as Stephen King parses it using slightly stronger language, “Trump’s mental condition is open to debate, I suppose; that he’s an incompetent asshat seems undeniable.”

He is certainly not our president.

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Hrafnkell Haraldsson

Hrafnkell Haraldsson, a social liberal with leanings toward centrist politics has degrees in history and philosophy. His interests include, besides history and philosophy, human rights issues, freedom of choice, religion, and the precarious dichotomy of freedom of speech and intolerance. He brings a slightly different perspective to his writing, being that he is neither a follower of an Abrahamic faith nor an atheist but a polytheist, a modern-day Heathen who follows the customs and traditions of his Norse ancestors. He maintains his own blog, A Heathen's Day, which deals with Heathen and Pagan matters, and Mos Maiorum Foundation www.mosmaiorum.org, dedicated to ethnic religion. He has also contributed to NewsJunkiePost, GodsOwnParty and Pagan+Politics.

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