Trump, the piece of garbage that he is, once mocked Krauthammer, who spent his adult life, paralyzed in a wheel chair as “being criticized by a guy who can’t buy a pair of pants”,
You seem to imply that Krauthammer wasn’t critical of Trump as President…he died in ‘18…before he died
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One month later, after Trump semi-defended the white supremacists and neo-Nazis who’d marched in Charlottesville, Krauthammer called Trump “a moral disgrace.” He surfaced on Fox News (where he had a regular gig) to dispute the standard Fox claim that the media was picking on Trump. Krauthammer begged to differ:
“This is not a ‘media’ story. This is a presidential story. What is shocking is that the president of the United States did not have the instinctive, reflexive automatic response you would expect of any American leader, in what we saw across the spectrum in American leadership and among the populace, in being utterly revolted by these right-wing, white supremacists, neo-Nazi groups. But the president did not do what was absolutely natural — that’s what makes it a story … It seems to me you start by denouncing what is obvious. And the fact that the president did not … is simply stunning.”
But in his
final political column — this was last summer, as illness tightened its grip — he refused to despair. Even though “Trump is a systemic stress test” for the America we love, “the institutions of both political and civil society are holding up well.” He had abiding faith that “the sinews of our democracy” will thwart “the careening recklessness of this presidency.”