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The US President was responding to Midler’s Twitter apology for posting a quote wrongly attributed to Trump
By Rupert Hawksley
June 5, 2019
You might think that, with his state visit to the UK still ongoing, Donald Trump would have enough to think about. But the US President has somehow managed to find the time to log onto Twitter and call the singer and actress Bette Midler a “washed up psycho”.
Sorry, what? Yes, at some point around 1.30am GMT, presumably after he had enjoyed dinner on Tuesday evening with the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall at Winfield House in London, Trump must have taken his phone out and decided that it was just the moment to settle a score with Midler.
“Washed up psycho, Bette Midler was forced to apologize for a statement she attributed to me that turned out to be totally fabricated by her, in order to make ‘your great President’ look really bad,” the tweet reads. “She got caught, just like the Fake News Media gets caught. A sick scammer!”
Donald J. Trump?@realDonaldTrump
Washed up psycho @BetteMidler was forced to apologize for a statement she attributed to me that turned out to be totally fabricated by her in order to make “your great president” look really bad. She got caught, just like the Fake News Media gets caught. A sick scammer!
Trump was triggered after Midler, who has sold over 30 million records worldwide, had earlier been forced to apologize on Twitter after she posted a fake quote on Sunday, which she attributed to Trump. The quote, which Trump has been wrongly accused of saying in 1998, includes lines such as, “[Republicans] are the dumbest group of voters in the country. They love anything on Fox News.” The quote was exposed as fake in 2015.
Midler wrote on Twitter: “I apologise; this quote turns out to be a fake from way back in ’15-16. Don’t know how I missed it , but it sounds SO much like him that I believed it was true!” She later added: “Because there are so many lies, most of them generated by Trump himself, that the task of separating the truth from the lies is impossible. Which is just how he likes it.”
I apologize; this quote turns out to be a fake from way back in ‘15-16. Don’t know how I missed it, but it sounds SO much like him that I believed it was true! Fact Check: Did Trump say in ’98 Republicans are dumb? http://on.rgj.com/1Y5RE57 via @rgj
Trump and Midler have locked horns in the past with Trump calling the singer “extremely unattractive”. But Midler is showing no signs of backing down in this particular battle. Since apologising over the fake quote, she has continued to attack the US President on Twitter, describing the white waistcoat he wore to a recent white tie dinner as a “proportion fail”.
PROPORTION FAIL!! His white waistcoat is at least two inches too long; tailcoat is supposed to be almost the same length as the waistcoat beneath, sleeves should be shorter and show a bit of the cuff below, the waist itself is nipped in…what a figure he cuts! Fire the tailor!! Scott Dworkin?@funderCreepiest thing about Trump’s UK trip?
And in what appears to be an escalation of hostilities, Midler’s latest tweet about Trump suggests that someone should “give him a shiv”, which is slang for a knife stab, before adding, “I mean, shove.”
He actually looks better here! Maybe someone in his camp can gently give him a shiv. I mean, shove
.Michael Moore?
Seriously, WTF is this? At what the WH said was “a memorial for the 12 shot dead in Virginia Beach” (it wasn’t), Trump, looking nothing like Trump, randomly wanders onto the altar in his golf shoes & cap, decides to stay for 15 min, then leaves, having thrown his curve at reality
Many people on Twitter felt this comment was a step too far, with one Twitter user saying, “jokes about knifing people aren’t funny”.Updated: June 5, 2019 12:26 PM
Just goes to show who the real psycho is! So sad especially coming from the washed up POTUS!
Well, this one really took off–covered like, almost everywhere. You know when it hits CNN it’s major news. They keep leaving out my favorite one, though, about the Donald slamming his dick in a door. Oh, the power of suggestion….
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2019/06/05/president-trump-vs-bette-midler-twitter-feud-moos-pkg-ebof-vpx.cnn
LOL
An amoral turd making comment is laughable if not so pathetic !
Here we go again…..Jimmy Kimmel had it all figured out…..It’s all about “Hocus Pocus!” (and it goes through to the very end of Jimmy’s monologue). As one blogger wrote, there’s more detective work in this, than in the Mueller Report (lol).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_s3Gaqbok-g
Thanks that was funny and clever!