Donald Trump's Unique Cruelty Toward Nikki Haley
Birtherism 2.0!
In November, Donald Trump went to the unusual extreme of posting on Truth Social that he would not be asking Mike Pompeo or Nikki Haley to join his cabinet in his second term.
Haley served as ambassador to the UN during Trump’s first term, while Pompeo worked for Trump as his Secretary of State.
Trump did not need to publicly announce that Pompeo and Haley DEFINITELY would not be part of his cabinet.
“I very much enjoyed and appreciated working with (Haley and Pompeo) previously and would like to thank them for their service to our Country. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” are Trump’s exact words.
Like pretty much everything that Trump does, it was a dick move designed to punish critics and rivals.
The reality show bozo thanked Haley and Pompeo for his service with an icy forced formality that betrayed Trump’s anger and bitterness toward people who had committed the ultimate crime in criticizing him.
That post was the height of kindness and diplomacy, however, compared to a Truth Social screed from January 15th where Trump screamed into the void, “As of today, the incoming Trump Administration has hired over 1,000 people for the United States Government. They are outstanding in every way, and you will see the fruits of their labor over the coming years. We will MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, and it will happen very quickly! In order to save time, money, and effort, it would be helpful if you would not send, or recommend to us, people who worked with, or are endorsed by, Americans for No Prosperity (headed by Charles Koch), “Dumb as a Rock” John Bolton, “Birdbrain” Nikki Haley, Mike Pence, disloyal Warmongers Dick Cheney, and his Psycho daughter, Liz, Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, General (?) Mark Milley, James Mattis, Mark Yesper, or any of the other people suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome, more commonly known as TDS. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
The post is typical of Trump. For the thirty-four-time felon, every day is Festivus. Trump never stops airing grievances.
Trump was letting the world know that he will never forget or forgive when members of his own party criticize him. It doesn’t matter if they support him. It doesn’t matter if they endorse him. They’re dead to him.
The Ghosts Can’t Do It star said he enjoyed working with Haley and thanked her for serving her country.
Two months later, Haley again appeared in the crosshairs of Trump’s incandescent rage. This time he couldn’t be bothered to vomit up some bullshit words of praise and appreciation for a woman who dared to challenge him for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.
Trump can afford to be gracious. He chooses instead to be a petty little bitch who loves drama. So even though he appointed Haley to a critical position in his cabinet and was endorsed by his former rival, who volunteered to campaign for him, he nevertheless felt the need to stick it to Haley.
He wasn’t just asserting, again, that Nikki Haley would not be part of Trump 2.0, although he was certainly doing that as well. Trump was instead insulting a member of his own party in a distinctly personal, gendered way. He wants the world to see Haley not as an accomplished veteran politician or rival but rather as a silly little girl.
Trump has made Haley and everyone else in his Truth Social burn book radioactive. He’s not just blackballing everyone he considers a RINO and an enemy; he’s blackballing their friends, allies, and third cousins.
Why? Because he can. Trump can be incredibly petty and cruel to a woman he previously appointed ambassador to the UN because he can do so with no negative consequences whatsoever. He can be vicious, personal, and vengeful, and no one in his party will criticize him out of fear of ending up in one of these missives themselves.
Trump is particularly sadistic to Haley because she is a woman of color and the exemplar of toxic masculinity loves calling non-white women stupid, low IQ, “dumb as a rock,” or, in Haley’s case, “Birdbrain.”
He was also singling out Haley for condemnation because she ran against him in 2024 and has criticized him. Trump believes that there is no place in the Republican Party for people who are disloyal or insufficiently sycophantic.
With this odious post, Trump is sending out a clear-cut message that the price for Republicans challenging him in any way will be steep. He won’t just make you pay; he’ll make everyone around you suffer.
That is chilling, as is the fact that Haley can’t publicly criticize Trump without provoking more of his rage.
So Haley rants angrily against Joe Biden, not a God-Emperor who insulted her intelligence repeatedly.
The Republicans have become a party of masochists whose default response to getting humiliated by the man-baby who leads the party is to thank him sincerely and then beg for more punishment and pain.
It’s not a sexual thing; it’s sicker than that.