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With great enthusiasm … and without so much as a twinge of shame … I, Donald Trump…

…called Secret Service head Randolph Alles “Dumbo”

…called Sec. of Transportation Elaine Chao “Coco Chow”

…called FBI director James Comey a “slimeball”

…called Sen./VP Kamala Harris a “monster”

…called reporter April Ryan “nasty”

…called Sen. Mitch McConnell a “broken old crow”

…called Rep. Jerry Nadler “fat Jerry”

…called Mayor Pete Buttigieg “Alfred E. Neuman”

…called Alicia Machado “Miss Piggy”

…called ex-aide Omarosa Newman a “dog”

…called VP Mike Pence a “(a word not fit to print)”

…called Rep. Beto O’Rourke a “dummy”

…called Rep. Adam Schiff a “pencil-neck”

…called Sen. Elizabeth Warren “goofy”

…called Rep. Maxine Waters “low I.Q.”

…called House Speaker Nancy Polosi an “animal”

…called Gov. Gretchen Whitmer “half-Whitmer”

…called Samantha Bee “no-talent”

…called Mika Brzezinski “dumb as a rock”

…called Don Lemon the “stupidest man on television”

…called Joe Scarborough “Psycho Joe”

…called Chuck Todd “Sleepy Eyes”

…called Mort Zuckerman “dopey”

…calledJeff Bezos “Jeff Bozo”

…called George Conway “Moonface”

…called Carly Fiorina and Stormy Daniels “Horseface”

…called Bette Midler a “washed-up psycho”

…called journalist Megyn Kelly a “bimbo”

…called Rosie O’Donnell a “pig”

…called Mike Bloomberg, Marco Rubio, and other men “little”

…called Gov. Tim Walz “Tampon Tim”

That’s a mere thirty-one examples of Donald Trump’s verbal cruelty and name-calling, and this short list doesn’t even include the many snide, snotty things he’s called or said about…Hillary Clinton…or Joe Biden…or Barack Obama…or John Lewis…or Rev. Al Sharpton…or Ruth Ginsburg…or John McCain…or Chuck Schumer…or Ben Sasse…or Jeb Bush…or Debbie Dingell…or Elijah Cummings…or Cory Booker…or Joy-Ann-Reid…or Carl Bernstein…or Ana Navarro…or Colin Powell…or Mitt Romney…or S.E. Cupp…or John Kasich…or Nicolle Wallace…or Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez…or E. Jean Carroll…or Alvin Bragg…or Ilhan Omar…or Arianna Huffington…or Paul Ryan…or Letitia James…or Heidi Cruz…or Jim Mattis…or CNN…or MSNBC…or ABC News…or CBS News…or NBC News…or “60 Minutes”…or “Today”…or “The Wall Street Journal”…or “The New York Times”…or “Christianity Today”…or Mexicans…or…

Dumbo!  Slimeball!  Monster!  Cow!  Dummy!  Pencil-neck!  Animal!  Half-wit!  No-talent!  Bozo!  Moonface!  Horseface!  Psycho!  Bimbo!  Pig!

“We’re not electing a Sunday School teacher,” the evangelicals told us.  How right they were.  But shouldn’t the nation’s “religious” voters be aiming considerably higher than this?

Brad Trom

Blooming Prairie