Trump needs to pick his battles better

That look you get after devouring Ted Turner

President Trump didn't get elected because of his conservative views because he isn't a conservative. He got elected because people were fed up with career politicians and business as usual attitudes on Capitol Hill. 

He won because of the culture war.

But he continues to use the culture war to justify his presidency and it means that he's getting stuck in the minutia of his detractors, and he's tweeting about minutia that's beneath the office of the President. 

I want President Trump to succeed--I really do. But he needs to put his need to counterpunch every insult from people who don't matter aside and deal with being president. That means working with both sides of the aisle, not alienating both sides.

Why he felt the need to mock the leftist filmmaker Michael Moore is baffling, except to say that it has to do with Trump's inability to not punch down. 

He tweeted Saturday that Moore's one-man Broadway show was "a TOTAL BOMB".

The show, "The Terms of My Surrender," ended a 13-week run on October 22nd. It only netted $4.2 million according to BroadwayWorld.com and that's less than half of its potential take. That's considered a flop in the industry.

Well folks, that's show business. But is it the president's business?

I know that Michael Moore attacks President Trump almost as much as he attacks the food on his plate, but I believe the president would be better off to let sleeping pigs lie.

The show combines Moore's autobiography (as if normal people care about the leftist stooge) along with calls for action against Trump and others in the GOP. But the show was a failure and critical disappointment.

The New York Times called "Terms of My Surrender" 'shaggy and self-aggrandizing.' And although I didn't see it, I believe the Gray Lady finally got something right.

The reviewer Jesse Green wrote: "You don't have to disagree with Mr. Moore's politics to find that his shtick has become disagreeable with age." Green compared the show to "being stuck at Thanksgiving dinner with a garrulous, self-regarding, time-sucking uncle" [who just swiped your three drumsticks, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, and cornbread when you weren't looking].

While Moore has been an outspoken critic of Trump as well as attacking the country and white people, it would have been better for Trump to ignore him rather than giving him any publicity.

In August, the adipose documentary director led the show's audience to Trump Tower to protest Trump's reaction to the Charlottesville, Va. massacre. That night he compared Trump's supporters to accomplices in a rape during a CNN interview. 

So one could say that Moore thinks about half the country are rape accomplices. Makes perfect sense if you're arteries are clogging your brain.

In a crazy, wild statement at that interview Moore said, "If you hold down the woman while the rapist is raping her, and you didn't rape her, are you a rapist? Let's cut the BS and start speaking honestly."

So here we have yet another case of a leftist accusing someone on the right of the behavior they've committed, just like the Clinton campaign did over the Russian collusion with Trump.

Moore laughingly told the Wall Street Journal in an email that his show was "the most artistically gratifying experience of my life" adding that there were "talks happening about taking this show on the road."

Probably because New Yorkers wanted it gone.

But that isn't for Trump to declare--let the reviewers and humble bloggers do it for him. He needs to stop punching down.

After all, he's the President of the United States and Hillary is signing books at Costco Warehouses. She still doesn't know What Happened.


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