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Hillary Clinton warns Trump stupidity will leave US feeble and friendless (www.theguardian.com)

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Hillary Clinton on Friday called the Trump administration’s approach to governing both dumb and dangerous in an essay excoriating the Signal chat scandal and the Elon Musk-led mission to slash the federal workforce, and concluding that Trump would make the US “feeble and friendless”.

The former secretary of state and Democratic presidential candidate wrote an op-ed for the New York Times that has been given the headline: “How much dumber will this get?” and opens: “It’s not the hypocrisy that bothers me; it’s the stupidity.”

Clinton starts with the Signal chat group scandal, when Donald Trump’s national security adviser, Mike Waltz, mistakenly added a top US journalist to a small group of government leaders on the encrypted but unclassified app and then the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, proceeded to discuss intricate details of a forthcoming airstrike on Houthi militants in Yemen and report back to the group on the deadly results.

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[–] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 30 points 4 days ago (1 children)

She gets under his skin, so if she could come from a place that wasn't self interest, she could be effective in criticizing him.

[–] burgermeister@lemm.ee 24 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Good point, but it also seems like anything gets under his skin, dude is a poster child for fragile ego.

[–] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 13 points 4 days ago

Yes, but she's a woman, who is better than him in every way, despite her faults. Pity she failed at the one thing she needed to do to get rid of him for good. That's hubris. And Trump is now entering that territory, but with added fascism.

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 1 points 4 days ago

Always so word to me seeing people value him for masculinity. Like fucking what‽ I'm an ex body builder who is still very intimidating looking, and any dude who I met who used that alpha beta bullshit, calling themselves the former, always turn into whiny babies when I question who they voted for.

I recorded one and showed it back to him at a later date, and to his defense he did apologize and recognized what he looked like, but still can't see the same in dear leader acting the same.