President Trump, First Lady Melania Trump, and presidential advisor Kellyanne Conway are bullies.
Worse, they are hypocrites because they have spoken out against bullying.
This is the verdict of Michelle Ruiz at Vogue. When a video of Tennessee teen Keaton Jones tearfully expressing despair due to being bullied, the world of celebrity and politics combined to offer Jones support. Among those sending via tweet love is Kellyanne Conway: “Keaton Jones is a face and a voice for many. We need to lift each other up, and lead by example for children, who learn what they live. If your heart breaks watching and hearing this boy's pain, think twice before causing or adding to another's. Thank you, Keaton & Mom”.
This was too much for Vogue: “Kellyanne Conway, counselor to arguably the world’s biggest bully, wants the world to know she is totally and vehemently against bullying. Wait, what? This morning, Conway penned a rather sanctimonious tweet, adding her name to the list of famous people supporting Tennessee teen Keaton Jones, whose tearful video about being bullied at his Knoxville middle school has gone viral and prompted notes of support from the likes of Katy Perry and Chris Evans.”
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Ruiz went on: Trump “regularly crafts custom school-yard taunts for his opponents, including Elizabeth Warren (‘Pocahontas’), Ted Cruz (‘Lyin’ Ted’), and, of late, ‘Liddle [sic]’ Bob Corker. Trump is just the grown-up, way-more-powerful version of the bullies in Jones’s lunchroom.”
Ruiz has seemingly blurred the worlds of politics, which can get quite vicious and nasty but is always sparring between grown adults, and a kid outnumbered by a heartless mob.
Ruiz closes with this shot: “First Lady Melania Trump has announced that she will crusade against cyberbullying while in office—though she has, heretofore, not done a whole lot on the matter. One can only hope Mrs. Trump will start at home.”