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Temper-Tantrum Trump:
‘I’ll Go It Alone’
The song says “Can You Feel The Love Tonight?” but apparently, Donald Trump is feeling none of it from his fellow party members. In fact, Trump is so upset that Republicans aren’t unanimously kowtowing to his every word and whim, that he threw a temper-tantrum on Wednesday and threatened to “go it alone” if they don’t start acting right.
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Donald Trump may be a billionaire, but he’s also proving to be a spoiled brat.  The years he’s spent as King of his own kingdom have apparently convinced “The Donald” that he is invincible and beyond reproach.  It’s his way or no way. However, Republicans haven’t been eagerly lining up to subscribe to this Trump doctrine and he’s not having it.
Trump was furious at Republicans for daring to scold him after his “Mexican” comments against Judge Gonzalo Curiel. He also didn’t take kindly to House Speaker Paul Ryan and other Republicans denouncing his brilliant idea to ban Muslim immigration. Â So, what did he do? Â He threw a temper-tanTRUMP.
“We have to have our Republicans either stick together or let me just do it by myself,” Trump cried during a rally in Atlanta on Wednesday. “I’ll do very well. I’m going to do very well. OK? I’m going to do very well. A lot of people thought I should do that anyway, but I’ll just do it very nicely by myself.”
The presumptive GOP presidential nominee then accused party’s leaders of being weak for not standing behind him and backing up his bully tactics.  In yet another temper-tantrum he told them that they’d better start doing things his way, or else just “be quiet.”
“You know the Republicans, honestly folks, our leaders, our leaders have to get tougher,” Trump whined. “Our leaders have to get a lot tougher. And be quiet. Just please be quiet. Don’t talk. Please be quiet. Just be quiet to the leaders because they have to get tougher, they have to get sharper, they have to get smarter.”
His words came only a day after he revoked the press credentials of The Washington Post for supposedly not treating him fairly.
Trump’s threat to bolt the GOP and launch an independent bid of his own is actually music to Republican ears. Several party leaders privately believe that with Trump at the top of the ticket, they are sure to lose the White House and likely the House and Senate too.  However, if Trump were to quit the party, several congressional seats might be saved and Donald Trump would no longer be the face of the Republican Party. Yippee!
Although it’s much too early for them to celebrate, somewhere, Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell are dreaming of Trump leaving their party, and of the day they can sing “Ding Dong, The Witch Is Dead.”
DJ you are truly on a roll this week. Thanks for another on time and on point post.
This colossal train-wreck of a campaign is now crashing so fast and furious that I really can't determine:
1. is he trying desperately to free himself from this nightmare of his own making (running for President) ? OR……
2. does he actually believe he will win because (in his world) he IS the center of the universe -a god unto himself don'tcha know, and therefore can't lose?
@ Repubs – He's YOUR presidential candidate (and Lord knows YOU deserve him). But given ALL that you've seen/heard by now …deep down inside even you must know that this ignorant and dangerous narcissistic azz-clown is in NO WAY fit to be the leader of ANY political party let alone, President of the United States!
LOL Truth all this is happening and Trump hasn't even got the official nomination yet. I can't wait to see their convention. It should be better than watching the Real Housewives lol.
BD it's just June…Lol. Just. June! .
Politico Reader:
We've NEVER seen this level of chaos in a major party nominee's campaign. I was going to say “at this point” but that would be superfluous. We’ve never seen chaos like this at any point in a presidential campaign.
I thought that Trump’s campaign would crater at some point, but I never thought it was go down the toilet this fast! […]
TAC Reader:
And there is nothing surprising about it. It has been totally predictable for months as he locked up the nomination. This was perhaps the slowest slow-motion train wreck of all time. […]
TAC Reader:
The problem is that a significant Fraction of GOP primary voters basically wants a candidate who will champion bigotry, {ignorance and racism} and they consider anyone else unacceptable.
The party is, these days, a four-legged stool, with business interest and foreign-policy hawks providing the money, and religious conservatives and white bigots providing the votes. One leg of said stool, having figured out it’s been played by a party elite {for decades} that panders to it but generally ignores its concerns, has now gone rogue.
Eventually, the racist rump will die off; they’re a smaller part of the electorate than when their exodus shattered the FDR coalition and sent the Democrats off into the political wilderness. […]
…..on a related note……
"Trump Is Who We Thought He Was"
Excerpt:
Back in the halcyon days when the GOP still had a reasonable chance to nominate someone not named Donald Trump for the Republican nomination, the execrable Peter King said out loud what many Republicans were privately thinking about the choice between Trump and Cruz:
"Ted Cruz to me is a phony. I don't trust him. To me, Cruz is hopeless. He's irredeemable. But Donald Trump, to be an effective candidate in the general election, has to show substance. He has to show that he's gone just beyond, you know, the name-calling and the sound bites and, again, he's not my first choice for candidate but he's got to show that he knows what he's talking about.”
At the time, many people – including all of us here at RedState – noted that King, McConnell, and the rest of the GOP caucus were just wish-casting the ability to sound like a reasonable person in the general on to Donald Trump, and that there was NO evidence at all that Trump had the capacity to be anything other than the loudmouthed ignoramus he was playing on the campaign trail. Even people who knew Trump behind the scenes whispered that what you saw with Trump was what you got – he knew little, said much, and you either got on board or got run over. […] RedState
….and this morning on CNN………..
Trump campaign Co-Chair: GOP must get behind Trump or 'shut the hell up'
Donald Trump's campaign co-chairman says Republicans should either unite behind their party's presumptive nominee or shut up.
"The leadership of the Republican Party needs to figure out what they want," Sam Clovis said Thursday morning on CNN.
"Either they want to get behind the presumptive nominee who will be the nominee of this party and make sure that we do everything we can to win in November, or we're just asking them, if they can't do that, then just shut the hell up." […] Rebecca Savransky, writer at The Hill
The Hill Reader:
Trump's aides are as ignorant and pathetic as Trump himself, blaming others for the failure of themselves.. The GOP leadership doesn't want an openly bigoted, racist as a candidate only the GOP base does but the GOP has pandered to this trash since the early 70's they own him and his bigoted base….[…]
WashPost Reader:
I predict that as time goes on, Trump will show himself to be utterly resistant to the best efforts of the GOP leadership to control him. The only reason why the GOP establishment even deludes itself that Trump can be controlled is that they don't fully understand the characteristics of a sociopath and a narcissist.
Ryan and McConnell will at some point, cut bait, and start working with Mitt Romney to contest Trump's nomination, which they can certainly do under their own convention rules. Why do I believe this? Because I have known for a very long time that the GOP never believed in the idea of majority rule. That is a very middle class ethic, which has no meaning among the Republican elite. […]
WashPost Reader:
More irrefutable evidence that {Republican} "conservatism" has been brain dead, but kept alive in a persistent vegetative state for decades at the insistence of the Bush family despite the objections of its next of kin.
It's among my fondest hopes that, after the disintegration of the GOP, a new, viable party emerges to the *left* of the Democrats, who have trailed along in the GOP's rightward wake for decades until they've become the party of fiscal responsibility and corporate friendship; a natural home for the handful of rational, informed Republicans. The rest (Trumpelos, Teahadis, etc.) can slink back to the swamps and hollers from whence they sprang in 1979 when Reagan whistled. […]
WashPost Reader:
Trump has figured out two things: that a great number of Americans are stupid and uninformed, and that stupid and uninformed people will believe anything. […]