Without mentioning the man by name, while accepting a lifetime achievement award at the Golden Globes, Meryl Streep pointed out Donald Trump's penchant for being a bully and attacking those of lesser power.
Trump responded by calling Streep a highly overrated actress. Which should come as no surprise.
It's what he does. He can't help himself from attempting to blunt criticism by disparaging the source of that criticism.
If the New York Times prints an editorial attacking him, Trump points out the newspaper is a failing money-making operation. (Aren't pretty much all newspapers losing money these days?)
When Mike Pence caught some flak from the cast of the Broadway hit Hamilton, Trump defended his vice presidential choice by calling the show overrated.
It's the man's go-to move.
What's missing is any logical link to make his comment in any way legitimate.
Streep's prowess as an actress is unrelated to her ability to notice bad behavior in other people, despite the fact such ability is likely related to her craft.
The worse actress in the history of the world could still make a valid point about Trump's boorishness.
And I doubt anyone could make the connection between the New York Times and money problems by saying it was exactly this sort of off-the-wall and outrageously false opinion about public figures that is causing the slow-motion downfall of the paper.
And so forth.
Trump's attacks are all ridiculous on the face of them, and he seems unaware of his precarious position. Does he really think his response is an actual refutation?
If so, then his position has to be that winning is everything. That success makes you right—by definition. And failure in business makes all your opinions false—by definition.
Trump still apparently thinks he won a massive victory over Hillary Clinton. Is he really that delusional?
Of course he is. He's human. This sort of loopy nonsense is what defines us. We know what we know and we can't be wrong.
Sure, other people can be wrong. But not us!
The CIA is wrong about the Russian connection to the hacking of our recent election because they were wrong about Weapons of Mass Destruction more than a decade ago.
Pure logic, right?
Besides, the chairman of the DNC made it so easy to hack his emails that anyone could have done it—which means the Russians couldn't possibly have done so.
President Trump will never be able to stop tweeting out his vast store of cranial crap. Someone—or some country—will say something he doesn't like, and Trump's finely-tuned golden globe will whirl into operation and produce the perfect comeback.
It's inevitable as the coming daylight.
Or is that the heat-flash of enemy nukes going off?
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