Donald Trump is still in the UK, and at around 1:30 am there, the President of the United States went on a tear against Bette Midler.
Yesterday Midler apologized after being called out for sharing a fake quote of Trump’s, saying, “Don’t know how I missed it, but it sounds SO much like him that I believed it was true!”
I apologize; this quote turns out to be a fake from way back in ‘15-16. Don’t know how I missed it, but it sounds SO much like him that I believed it was true! Fact Check: Did Trump say in '98 Republicans are dumb? https://t.co/NY9s6V49el [1] via @rgj [2]
— Bette Midler (@BetteMidler) June 3, 2019 [3]
The president reacted in a late-night tweet by calling Midler a “washed up psycho” and a “sick scammer!”
“Washed up psycho Bette Midler was forced to apologize for a statement she attributed to me that turned out to be totally fabricated by her in order to make “your great president” look really bad. She got caught, just like the Fake News Media gets caught. A sick scammer!”
Washed up psycho @BetteMidler [4] was forced to apologize for a statement she attributed to me that turned out to be totally fabricated by her in order to make “your great president” look really bad. She got caught, just like the Fake News Media gets caught. A sick scammer!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 5, 2019 [5]
Trump blasted Midler after ripping Chuck Schumer on Twitter too, hours after hosting Prince Charles and Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, for dinner.
Twitter had some thoughts:
Now it’s almost 2 in the morning where you are and you’re rage tweeting about Bette Midler. On the eve of the D Day anniversary. She’s an award winning talent while you are a demented, syphilitic slug, a boil on the ass of humanity. Oh, and a criminal to boot. Sad! #Trumpresign [6]
— Lesley Abravanel (@lesleyabravanel) June 5, 2019 [7]
Yeah, Gramps is definitely tired. Can somebody please give him a cheeseberder and put him to bed before he starts a nuclear war?
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 5, 2019 [8]
what a fuckin embarrassment it is one thirty in the morning https://t.co/HpoWX4ziyb [9]
— darth™ (@darth) June 5, 2019 [10]
No matter what, the President of the United States has absolutely no business publicly calling an American citizen like Bette Midler a “washed up psycho.” That’s harassment and abuse of the highest order and shouldn’t even be allowed on any social media platform.
— Eugene Gu, MD (@eugenegu) June 5, 2019 [11]
… i don't think putting "your great president" in quotation marks has the desired effect here. https://t.co/91Ktp43C45 [12]
— fake nick ramsey (@nick_ramsey) June 5, 2019 [13]
Also of note, she was in BEACHES and you are a beached whale.
— Jeremy Newberger (@jeremynewberger) June 5, 2019 [14]