Last updated on July 17th, 2023 at 07:12 pm
Donald Trump woke up this Saturday in a foul mood, and thus he went to Twitter to pout, as all presidential types do.
The Republican presumptive nominee whined about Hillary Clinton having money for ads when he has none, and whined about her attacking him over the fact that he has no foreign policy experience.
To wit:
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Crooked Hillary is spending big Wall Street money on ads saying I don't have foreign policy experience, yet look what her policies have done
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 16, 2016
To understand why Trump is so peeved, “when Donald Trump told Republicans that his campaign had money, it was a lie. In meeting with Senate Republicans, Trump’s campaign privately admitted that they have no money and will not be able to run television ads until after the GOP convention in July.”
So what does one do when they’re broke? They whine that the other person has money to spend on ads. Or, if they are actually presidential material, they might get serious about the attempted coup in Turkey. But of course Trump didn’t do that because he has no foreign policy experience and thus no insight to share and he seems loath to be told what to say by people who actually know something.
Instead of writing something like President Obama or Hillary Clinton did about Turkey, Donald Trump is whining about the fact that Hillary Clinton has money to spend on ads.
Wall Street money, he claims. And the only reason that matters is because the Republican Party can’t get money from Wall Street like they usually do. Yes, Wall Street is not being as generous with the Party’s convention as they were during previous years.
The Party is not pleased about this, and they went begging to Sheldon Adelson for $6 million, claiming that big corporations were not living up to their pledges because of Donald Trump.
And while that is true in some cases, things got even worse for the Republican Party when it was revealed that they had lied in their begging letter to Adelson because many of the corporations they claimed weren’t giving what they had pledged had actually not pledged the amounts claimed or anything at all.
Yes, the RNC convention host letter glossed over facts in order to appeal to Adelson more, and then got embarrassed when the corporations spoke out against the false claims. Though certainly there are many corporations that did pull out or say they wouldn’t fund anymore than they already had due to the stench of Dangerous Don.
Given this embarrassment and the cluster mess of a VP rollout, caused by Trump’s petulance over being scooped and the fact that he reportedly didn’t want Pence at all, he went to Twitter to do the things he does best — pouting and whining.
Next up, we’re being treated to a Veep rollout redo at 11 AM this Saturday.
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