Fake tough: Donald Trump’s tantrum over Canada
Over the last year, we’ve watched and listened as the new American president demonstrated his rules of combat.
Donald Trump is quick to anger and engage, but doesn’t like to fight in an open forum. He prefers after-the-fact actions, which mostly involve his basic vocabulary and most often find form on Twitter.
Twitter is the ideal social media platform for his style of fight: immediate, short-form and widespread. It also allows him to cast his aspersions from his bedroom, Air Force One or the 13th hole at Mar-a-Lago. The outward travel of his tweets is broad, but the tweeter is invariably hidden.
This is why one of my longtime American buddies, who hauled himself up the hard way, calls Trump “Fake tough.”