On November 25, 2023, Donald Trump was greeted with a deafening chorus of boos when he entered the South Carolina/Clemson football game. Isaac Bailey, a McClatchy columnist, issued a stinging indictment of the former President and the ‘cowards’ who permitted him to take the field in a nasty op-ed published in The State on November 26. According to Raw Story, Bailey claimed that the game, which he described as ‘a quasi-religious occasion in the Palmetto State,’ now had the’stench’ of a Trump presence.
As his advance team assembled to encourage the audience to applaud him, Trump was booed as he waited in his car. As the jeers rained down on him, he could be seen calmly peering out of his car, ready to rush away to where Steven Cheung and Jason Miller (his aides) were gathering his admirers, according to Meidas Touch Network.
Apart from Bailey’s harsh evaluation of the former President, which included calling him ‘a 91-time indicted and credibly-accused sexual abuser,’ the author also attacked South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster, saying the governor “should be ashamed. But you’d have to possess a shred of integrity for shame to be even a possibility, so I get why he isn’t.”
The blogger went on to criticize the college, saying, “The University of South Carolina should be ashamed.” However, it is led by cowards who are content to bend the knee to a compromised governor and an even more compromised presidential candidate who encouraged a deadly attack on our democracy just a few years ago.
Bailey then added, “Whoever signed off on that pathetic Trump parade should be fired, though I suspect, given how far we’ve fallen from any sense of decency, they may have already received a raise.”
He also brought up the fact that Trump attended the South Carolina football game but has otherwise declined to ever appear on the debate platform alongside former governor Nikki Haley (R-SC), who is also vying for the GOP presidential nomination in 2024. “Trump hasn’t participated in Republican primary debates because polls show he’s far ahead of the field. And yet, he showed up in South Carolina’s state capitol to make a spectacle of himself and sully one of our most-cherished annual traditions,” Bailey wrote.
It’s that they knew everyone with the power to halt their witless display of machismo and arrogance would roll over and let them do whatever the hell they wanted to do.” Bailey wrote before concluding, “Haley’s squad won the football game, and she earned a major political triumph over a man who brags about his toughness but whose decision to fly into Columbia was political weakness.
McMaster and others lied that the man they treated like an emperor had new clothing. But those of us with eyes and a working brain know the truth: he was revealed as the naked coward’s bully he has always been.
