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Simultaneously defending and bashing Donald Trump's latest controversial tweet

As he seems to do on a daily basis, Donald Trump came under fire today for retweeting a doctored video of him knocking Hillary Clinton over with a golf ball. Some on the right have defended the president as a "fun guy" and that we all need to lighten up. Some on the left have claimed the tweet proves Trump is a misogynist. In my opinion, both sides are stretching here, Republicans need to stop defending the president, and Democrats need to focus their attention on other things.

I don't think it can even be debated anymore; Donald Trump is a sexist. With exceptions, the president typically views women as nothing more than sex symbols, whose sole purpose is to please men's eyes and loins. Having said that, however, what President Trump despises even more than giving women credit based on their actual merits is losing or being called out for being wrong. Donald Trump holds stronger grudges than a teenager nicknamed Sir Grudge-a-Lot. There's a reason why he continually insults Hillary Clinton ten months after defeating her in last year's election - she beat him in the popular vote, and he can't accept that. So, do I think Trump's retweet was childish, facepalm-inducing, unpresidential, and wrong? Yes. But do I think he was being sexist? No, because, no matter who defeated Trump in the popular vote last November, whether it happened to be a man, a woman, or a water buffalo named Drought, the chances are good he'd have retweeted such a video of him hitting this former opponent with a golf ball. This doesn't negate the fact that the president is a sexist, but it does showcase the leader and face of our country to be an immature teenager trapped in a 71-year-old's body. Yes, I see a potential movie in the making here as well...

http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/17/politics/trump-tweet-clinton/index.html
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