Donald Trump has a new target today, “The Atlantic.” The publication has had two standout pieces in the last few days about the president and apparently he noticed. He called the media outlet, “boring but very nasty,” Then he celebrated layoffs saying, “The Atlantic, is rapidly failing, going down the tubes, and has just been forced to announce it is laying off at least 20% of its staff in order to limp into the future.”
So what set him off?
Monday they published a piece called, “The Malignant Cruelty of Donald Trump:”
Donald Trump doesn’t merely want to criticize his opponents; he takes a depraved delight in inflicting pain on others, even if there’s collateral damage in the process, as is the case with the Klausutis family. There’s something quite sick about it all.
But it may be a story the day before that really got him going. Tom Nichols, a former Republican who is now a so-called Never Trumper wrote a story titled “Donald Trump, the Most Unmanly President.”
The question is why so many of Trump’s working-class white male voters refuse to hold Trump to their own standards of masculinity—why they support a man who behaves more like a little boy.
Both stories are worth your time. Meanwhile, the editor in chief of The Atlantic is responding to the president today with a fact check.