What Chris Coons Gets for His Bipartisanship — Trump in His Face
Politico posted a story yesterday about Donald Trump’s supposed growing embrace of Christianist ideals, and chose as its opening anecdote this vignette starring none other than our senator, Fightin’ Chris Coons, the Bipartisan Brawler.
The night before last week’s National Prayer Breakfast, President Donald Trump was hosting religious leaders and lawmakers for dinner at the White House when he spotted Democratic Senator Chris Coons — and pounced.
Trump confronted the Delaware lawmaker — who attended the event as the Prayer Breakfast’s official Democratic co-chair — over the issue of abortion, creating a tense scene in the White House’s Blue Room, according to three sources familiar with the exchange.
Trump leaned in close to Coons, who calls himself “a practicing Christian and a devout Presbyterian,” and laced into the Democratic senator over controversial moves to change statewide policies on abortion that have roiled New York and Virginia politics in recent weeks. “He was in his face about it,” said one person familiar with the exchange. The person described Trump as extremely “worked up.”
“He saw a Democrat in the room, a Democrat who’s known to be a person of faith, and he was like, ‘Why aren’t you speaking out about this?’” the source added.
Another source who was in the room confirmed the account, describing the moment as both “awkward” and attention-grabbing. Rarely has Trump been so vocal about abortion when the masses aren’t watching, this person said. (A Coons spokesman declined to comment.)
“A Coons spokesman declined to comment.” That’s exactly the kind of bold leadership we need in these times. Well done.
Haven’t you guys figured out yet the Coons is sufficiently self-possessed that he doesn’t need to issue a press release whenever somebody or some thing happens?
President Little Hands must be pretty tense right about now. He was likely showing off to the assembled multitude. Sounds like Coons handled the confrontation well.
He doesn’t need to dodge reporters when something happens, either. He’s all over the TV but he’s mum on this. No wonder. He was bullied and failed to stand up to it.
If you think staying silent while a much bigger man gets in your physical space and berates you is the leadership this moment in history calls for, it explains a lot about you.
TRUMP: ‘Why aren’t you speaking out about this!?’”
coons: “That’s not how ‘having it both ways’ works”
If he had stood up to Trump in that moment, it would have been front-page news the next day. Instead it’s just another whispered example of somebody cowering before the Orange Meat Puppet.
Really if he had said anything
“You are going to lecture me on what I need to do to be a Christian?”
Fucking chickenshit absurd doofus.
And oh yeah… Resign, Chris. For the good of the country.