Pete Buttigieg at Fox News Town Hall: Trump Tweets Are 'Grotesque Things'

[babylonsister]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/pete-buttigieg-at-fox-news-town-hall-trump-tweets-are-grotesque-things?ref=home

Pete Buttigieg at Fox News Town Hall: Trump Tweets Are ‘Grotesque Things’
Barbie Latza Nadeau
Correspondent-At-Large

Democratic presidential candidate hopeful Pete Buttigieg did not mince words Sunday on a Fox News town hall, calling for a return to moral authority in America and chiding President Donald Trump’s tweets as a distraction. “The tweets are—I don’t care,” he said. “It’s the nature of grotesque things that you can’t look away.”The crowd erupted into raucous applause several times during the South Bend, Indiana mayor’s appearance, especially when he called for greater attention to reproductive rights and when he lambasted Trump for considering pardoning service members accused of war crimes. Trump tweeted that his favorite news network was “wasting time” by hosting Buttigieg. “They forgot the people who got them there,” Trump tweeted, then added: “Alfred E. Newman will never be President!”

[BootinUp]

1. Not as grotesque as their source. Nt

[thesquanderer]

2. re: "Alfred E. Newman will never be President!" I remember...

...when our last president said Donald Trump would not be president, and we see how well that prediction went. I hope Trump's prediction is just as accurate.

[Bozvotros]

3. This needs to be made into a meme

He's saying that Trump is a sideshow freak. A geek that people stare at because they cant look away, not because there is anything worthwhile intelligent or even interesting about him.

The first thing I thought about was "The Jar" by Ray Bradbury. It's a great story. A man goes to a sideshow and becomes captivated by a jar that has something grotesque floating in it. It may be a deformed fetus. It may be an animal. Everyone sees something different in it. He buys it for its entertainment value in the hopes it will get him attention and respect.

It does do that. But it also reminds the buyer and viewers of horrible and tragic elements of their life, of twisted beliefs and fears. It even inspires the buyer to do something terrible to keep it''s cynical origin a secret.

http://www.unz.com/print/WeirdTales-1944nov-00049