If you say left, I’ll say right. If you say up, I’ll say down. This is the mentality of anyone in the public sphere that is a vocal opponent of President Trump.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) went on CBS’s “This Morning” on Tuesday to talk about federal funding for those in need as result of the Hurricane Harvey disaster that has been battering Texas, and now Louisiana, over the past few days.
Sanders was, of course, poked and prodded by "This Morning" host Gayle King and fill-in host Maurice DuBois to say something critical about President Trump’s visit to Texas on Tuesday, and Sanders, in typical Sanders fashion, snuck in a jab while trying to look like his focus was on those in need.
Socialists tend to do that.
“Too soon for the president to be there? Probably, it is," Sanders said. "Let's not get into that. The focus right now has got to be on doing everything we can to address the terrible, terrible pain that is taking place in that city.”
It’s admirable for Sanders to have pivoted away from the Trump talk to focus on those affected by Harvey, but opponents of Trump always have to insert their little potshots in order to keep the focus on how “evil” Trump is to them.
It could be said with almost absolute certainty that if Trump had waited until the storm passed to go to the affected areas, those in the media and Washington D.C. would say that he waited too long to make his visit.
The president isn’t above being criticized, and it’s within anyone’s rights to do so, but to criticize his every move simply because you don’t like the man makes the person doing the criticizing look ill-informed and petty.