I would like to nominate the Baltimore Sun Editorial Board for the very first Jack Hickman Award for Best Insult of the Year. Jack Hickman was an army NCO known for skillfully dressing down his subordinates. He once bawled out an erring crew member by saying, “If your mental stature matched your physical stature, you’d have to stand on a brick to kick a duck in the ass!”
Donald Trump, the self-made master of the sound bite insult, may have met his match. Trump called the whole 7th Congressional District, and specifically the city of Baltimore, “a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess.”
Many have leaped to Baltimore’s defense, but the best salvo in this war of words came from the pros at the Baltimore Sun. Their recent editorial skillfully skewered Mr. Trump with one of the most beautiful insults ever published. They wrote:
“...we would tell the most dishonest man to ever occupy the Oval Office, the mocker of war heroes, the gleeful grabber of women’s private parts, the serial bankrupter of businesses, the useful idiot of Vladimir Putin and the guy who insisted there are “good people” among murderous neo-Nazis that he’s still not fooling most Americans into believing he’s even slightly competent in his current post. Or that he possesses a scintilla of integrity. Better to have some vermin living in your neighborhood than to be one.”
Beautiful.
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