President Reagan and President George W. Bush were also constantly attacked by the media, with an aim toward impeaching them. The biggest differences between Reagan/W. Bush and Trump is the amount of media available and the response from the Presidents themselves. Ronald Reagan was the happy warrior and George W. Bush always handled criticism with humility and class. President Donald Trump is running around to colleges to whine to 22 year old young adults that the media is treating him unfairly. This is a very poor move by the President. It makes him look soft. It makes it appear like he is more focused on the media than he is on running the country – and frankly, it shows.
President Ronald Reagan was blamed for creating millions of poor people at the very time he was getting America back to work. They blamed Reagan for homeless people. They blamed Reagan for AIDS. The media argued that Reagan didn’t help defeat the Soviet Union, all he did was bankrupt America. Let’s not forget Iran Contra. Here are some more attacks on Reagan.
November 3, 1984 – The Nation
Smiling racism
by Roger Wilkins
Southern politicians used to promise their redneck constituents that they would “keep the n*****s in their place,†and when elected, they proceeded to do just that. It has been reported that after losing an early election to just such a politician, George Wallace vowed never to be “outn*****ed†again. Well, it is clear that Ronald Reagan is not going to be “outcolored.â€
Brutal
March 2, 1987 -The Boston Globe
The buck stops with her
by Mike Barnicle
Maybe you noticed that since the whole Iran mess began, Mrs. Reagan’s husband has shown the command decision instincts of a glazed donut. He sat there like a stone for months, acting like someone whose IQ equals the mean temperature of St. Petersburg, Fla., as the entire government came crashing down around his Day-glo orange hair and wax-filled ears.
Ouch!
And let’s not forget Democrats blaming President George W. Bush for the September 11th attacks! They blamed President Bush for “stealing” the election. They accused him of Global Isolationism even as he built one of the largest international war pacts in history. Â They blamed President Bush, NOT PRESIDENT CLINTON, for ignoring warnings about OBL. They wanted to impeach Bush over the Plame Affair. They accused him of not caring about US Soldiers. They wanted to impeach him over domestic spying (programs less advanced than what was used under President Obama).
Why are we so sensitive now that President Trump is in office? Why did we trust President Reagan and President George W. Bush to stand strong in the face of constant media assaults, but we’re all worried about Trump’s feelings?
Everything seems worse while it’s happening and no one seems willing to admit it. We see this in sports all the time. Is so and so the greatest player ever?!?!?! Was such and such the greatest series ever?!?! Was team x the greatest team ever?!?! Everything is always the greatest or the worst when its happening.
President Trump isn’t going through anything worse than what President Clinton went through either; and President Clinton was still able to work with Speaker Gingrich to get legislation the country needed moved through Congress and signed into law.
President Trump is a big boy and there is no reason for us to feel like he’s somehow weaker or more vulnerable than any of our previous Presidents. Yes, he’s being investigated just like Bush and Clinton and Reagan were investigated.
Are the media attacks louder? Of course they are. They are amplified by social media and by the fact that there is so much more media out there. But remember, President Reagan was getting slammed by the liberal media and the Republican Washington Establishment. So, if that’s what makes Trump’s situation so difficult, maybe he should take a look at how Reagan handled it when Reagan went through it.
I’m just tired of listening to Republicans whine and complain that our President is getting attacked. Of course he is. What did you think was going to happened? That Democrats and the media were all going to start fawning over him the moment he walked into the Oval Office? Did you think that all those Republicans that hated him during the Republican Primaries were going to fall in love with him after he won in November? If so, why? If not, then what are you complaining about?
I’ll say it again. President Donald Trump is a big boy. He can handle this. The Republican Party can handle this. Even you….even you can handle this. It’s going to be OK.
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Clever, not one word about the treatment of Obama by Limbaugh, Fox, Beck, Levin, and thousands of others. Obama took it like a man. Hell, that is mostly what they still talk about when not defending Trump.
Trump cannot handle it. At least not without a prescription of some sort. He is cracking. Trump is the type guy who will eventually cry for his mother. Putin, apparently represents a fatherly figure to Trump. That is going to be a problem.
Trumps honeymoon in Washington is over. This investigation will take years. Was Bengazi worth it? Was the e mail fiasco worth it.
Just the messenger here. It is hopeless to try to stop nature from prevailing with “what goes around comes around”.
Wow! What a flippant attitude with what is turning out to be a modern day witch hunt. I have never seen the all out attack against a sitting president like the one coming from the Lame Stream Media, the Washington deep state, Demwits, establishment Republicans and never Trumpers, and I have been following politics closely since the Reagan years. The most disconcerting for me are the intelligence leaks from the deep state. It would be one thing if we were talking about scandals that included Americans dying or actual collusion with the Russkies by selling them the rights to 20% of our nations uranium. Allowing these attacks to go forward, and in your case, sometimes supporting the effort, based solely on “unnamed sources” is appalling.
You are right, President Trump is a “big boy,” and a FIGHTER. With the things he campaigned on, I knew he was going to get everything including the kitchen sink thrown at him, and a fighter was going to be needed. No other GOP candidate could have withstood this onslaught. Assigning a special council for all of these ginned-up scandals will only put President Trump or those around him in needless peril. Just ask Scooter Libby. Funny, instead of taking the 5th or claiming executive privilege like all of them folks did over the 8 years of the Obumbler regime, Libby tried to tell the truth and went to jail for it. He didn’t even have anything to do with exposing the supposed CIA operative Plame. Do you think the Demwits or the LSM will let anyone in the Trump regime get away with taking the 5th?
You have a decision to make. You can be a bystander/sometime supporter of this coup, or you can open your eyes to the danger. I suppose I’ll keep whining, regardless.
If Trump and his team behaved professionally none of this would be happening – put the blame on them, not the US
You mean if he and his team behaved more like the Obumbler regime? BTW, I firmly put the blame on the lame Stream Media, the Washington deep state, Demwits, establishment GOP and the never Trumpers. Sad that such a small minority of Americans could have so much influence in the national narrative.
You’ve nailed it. That’s exactly who has vowed to bring Trump down and the country right along with them. I feel sorry for the clueless millenials who will have to live with what our party, the democrats, and the press has done.
so, who is left – you are pretty much saying that everyone in the country is to blame, except for Trump himself – grow up, girl
To quote Jonah Goldberg about NeverTrump: “I’m going to call ’em like I see ’em and wait and see if I was wrong about Trump… The thing is: Never Trump is over. Never Trump was about the GOP primary and the general election, not the presidency. The Left wants to claim it must be a permanent movement, denying the legitimacy of Trump’s election forever, or we were never serious. Well, that’s not what we — or at least I — signed up for. …I’ll say it again: I’m going to call ’em like I see ’em and wait and see if I was wrong about Trump. So far, I’ve said that most of his cabinet picks have been a pleasant and welcome surprise. But he’s also done plenty of things that make me feel like I had him pegged all along. We only have one president at a time — and the guy isn’t even president yet. I’ll give him a chance. But I won’t lie for him either.”
Jonah Goldberg, Erick Erickson, myself, David French, Ben Shapiro, Mark Levin, etc, all former Nevers who want Trump to succeed but recognize that he’ll only do that if he’ll only do that if he learns from his mistakes.
NeverTrump is dead. Blaming everybody else for Trump’s failures is a cheap excuse for what’s going on. The blame falls on Democrats for being hysterical obstructionists that are unwilling to work with Trump, and Trump and his admin for making mistakes. Mistakes they’ll continue to make if their told that they’re other people’s fault.
Perhaps you could maybe say something to all them politicians on the GOP side that keep saying the “I” word? I think they lost your memo on the death of that pointless crusade.
They’re grasping for straws ahead of the 2018 midterms, trying to move the target off of their backs, the usual political opportunism.
You are exactly right. No President has ever met the resistance that Trump has met. Special prosecutors have to find something, so he will, whether it’s the truth or not. Our own party is allowing our President, and our country, to go down, just to prove that they are ‘right’.
” No President has ever met the resistance that Trump has met” – you make me laugh – you seem to forget the GOP proudly publized strategy of obstructing anything Obama tried to do – and they did say that this was their plan and they followed through with it – stop the whining – you got what you voted for
That is just not true, Jeanine. Not true.
I would hope that the Russian investgation deals with all of the politicians not just Trump. There is every reason to believe that the Clintons and their associates were far more involved with Putin than Trump. It will be interesting to read the charter of the special counsel. Hopefully, it is more encompassing and scares the radical left.
What evidence do you have to support your assertion that Trump is a big boy? A cursory glance if his twitter feed should quickly disprove that theory.
He’s a billionaire, successful businessman. He can take it.
Apparently not. He can’t take it without lashing back. But worse, is so much of the country is working hard to impeach him, he doesn’t just have the Democrats and the press against him, like Reagan and Bush did, but he has the Never Trumpers who will never, ever, stop, just to prove themselves right. The press are also Right Fighters. All three of these groups would rather see the country lose everything just to prove themselves ‘right’. They hate Trump with a passion that has not been seen before in our politics. Trump is in a whole new league of hatred and they’ll continue for the next 4 years or they will succeed with impeachment.
None of Trump’s promises will be kept because Mitch McConnell has already said most of what Trump promised is DOA in the Senate.
McConnell will be replaced if he doesn’t deliver on what he already agreed to.
What he got 5-6 years till he’s up again? By then he will be like 80 something.