Donald Trump is a tone-deaf bonehead - today's edition

There are two stories up at Red State right now that really make me glad I didn't vote for Squirrel-Hair.

How's this for sensitive handling of the deaths of the four Green Berets killed in Niger:

Reporters asked Trump on Monday why he had not spoken or tweeted publicly about the four men — Army Sgt. La David Johnson, Staff Sgt. Bryan Black, Staff Sgt. Dustin Wright, and Staff Sgt. Jeremiah Johnson — who gave their lives for their country in Niger on October 4.

Trump could have offered his condolences to the families of the fallen and left it at that. But because our president is”Showman” Trump, the issue quickly turned political. Trump said he had not yet called the families of the fallen soldiers, and defended his failure to do so after two weeks.

“President Obama and other presidents, most of them didn’t make calls … I call when it’s appropriate,” Trump said, adding, “I will at some point during the period of time call the parents.”

And it's going to come across as so genuine when he does.

Then there's his response to McCain's remarks about nationalism:

The war of words between President Trump and Senator John McCain rolls on.

I’d say it began when candidate Trump hit at McCain during the primaries, suggesting McCain was a “hero” only because he was captured, and that he preferred those who didn’t get captured.

It’s been a back and forth ride, since then. Last night, however, Senator McCain gave a speech that some felt was a not-so-thinly-veiled swipe at Trump.

 “To fear the world we have organized and led for three-quarters of a century, to abandon the ideals we have advanced around the globe, to refuse the obligations of international leadership and our duty to remain ‘the last best hope of Earth’ for the sake of some half-baked, spurious nationalism cooked up by people who would rather find scapegoats than solve problems is as unpatriotic as an attachment to any other tired dogma of the past that Americans consigned to the ash heap of history,” McCain said at the National Constitution Center, where he was awarded the Liberty Medal.

It certainly sounds like Trump.

The president, thin-skinned and intensely sensitive to even the slightest perceived criticism, fired back in a radio broadcast earlier today.

“People have to careful, because at some point I fight back,” Trump told WMAL radio host Chris Plante. “I’m being very nice. I’m being very, very nice. But at some point I fight back, and it won’t be pretty.”

Seriously, seek help.

MODERN presidential!