What would happen if.....

[Lissa]

Intelligent discourse is preferable to name calling and personal attacks.

Kathy Griffin was fired. As far as I know, she has been universally criticized. Ashock was wrong in his prediction about her.

However, he is correct about the double standard which exists when President Trump is talked about in the media vs. how President Obama was treated. For example, NPR does nothing but criticize President Trump. No matter what he does or says they find fault and make fun of him. They don't even make an effort to be unbiased in their reporting. At least they are polite. But the magnitude of the vitriol directed at our President in some other quarters is something to behold.

Except, you forget, Trump doesn't act Presidential. He also hasn't bothered to learn how the US Government works and how the President interacts. For years I remember people saying that business people would be great to be in the position of President, but Trump is proving how wrong that is. The US Government does not run like a business, you cannot be a dictator as the President of the US like you can as the President/CEO of a company. And he continues to not learn this and refuses to learn this from everything he's done (where's the shouting from the Right about his signing of Executive Orders when they complained about Obama doing it and so far Trump has signed more EOs than all other Presidents in history combined to amount of time in office).

Simply put, Trump is getting the vitriol because of his actions (he spewed vitriol constantly during his campaign, he spewed it constantly during his transition, and he's spewed it since taking office, take a look at his twitter history), his complete lack of tack, his consistent lies (just take a look at the reasoning behind Comey's firing and the commentary on giving the Russians the knowledge of how Israel found out about the laptop bombs even though Israel said not to spread the information or sourcing around given what McMasters said, what Tellerson said, and what Trump said just to name a couple), and the damage he's doing to the Office he holds. Even some of the right wing media outlets are having a difficult time swallowing his commentary. As devisive as he is, it's no wonder he gets the vitriol he does (have you forgotten how much vitriol was thrown Obama's way by the right wing news outlets like Fox and opinion pieces like Limbaugh, Coulter, and Jones).