Poor Martha McSally. She has debased herself to be Donald Trump’s loyal lap dog, and Trump humiliated her by treating her just like a dog at his COVID super-spreader rally in Goodyear on Wednesday. ‘Quick, quick, quick’: Trump rushes McSally at rally as she fights to hold her Senate seat:
President Donald Trump offered a not-very warm welcome to Sen. Martha McSally on Wednesday at his campaign rally in Arizona, where McSally, also a Republican, is fighting to hold on to her seat.
After saying she was “respected by everybody” and “great,” Trump rushed McSally to the stage at an airport rally in Goodyear to say a few words.
“Martha, just come up fast. Fast. Fast. Come on. Quick. You got one minute! One minute, Martha! They don’t want to hear this, Martha. Come on. Let’s go. Quick, quick, quick. Come on. Let’s go,” Trump said.
Martha McSally has done everything she can to appeal to Trump & his base
This is how he introduced her:
"Just come up fast. Fast. Fast. Come on. Quick. You got one minute! One minute, Martha! They don’t want to hear this, Martha. Come on. Let’s go. Quick, quick, quick. Come on" pic.twitter.com/3caQZaAmx9
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) October 28, 2020
McSally spoke for just over a minute, and said she was “proud” to work with the president — something a moderator could not get her say during her debate with Democratic challenger Mark Kelly earlier this month.
After McSally spoke, Trump called up a trio of politicians from out of state to speak — Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, and Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. Of the three, only McCarthy, the House Republican leader, is running for re-election in November. All spoke longer than McSally did — as did another guest speaker Trump called on, Nigel Farage of Britain’s Brexit party. Trump did not rush any of those four.
Polling in Arizona has shown McSally consistently behind Kelly. Earlier Wednesday, McSally published an op-ed at Fox News in which she said she will vote for Trump. She had long asserted that she has the right to a “secret ballot” when asked if she’s voting for him.
Laurie Roberts of the Arizona Republic adds, Trump’s disrespect of Sen. Martha McSally was painful to watch (excerpt):
After spending the last two years as one of President Donald Trump’s most loyal supporters, I’m guessing Arizona Sen. Martha McSally wasn’t feeling the love on Wednesday as the president barnstormed through Arizona.
Trump did, at least, bring her up on stage at his Goodyear rally. Sort of like, you know, how you might call your dog.
“Martha, come up fast,” Trump said. “Fast. Fast. Come on. Quick. You got one minute! One minute, Martha! They don’t want to hear this, Martha. Come on. Let’s go. Quick, quick, quick. Come on.”
“Martha” got one minute.
It was painful to watch as the president who dodged the draft treated the nation’s first female combat pilot with such disrespect. I almost expected him to ask her to twirl around for the folks. (He did, at least, pronounce her name correctly. So there’s that …)
Trump’s puzzling treatment of McSally follows another awkward moment earlier this month. During a Tucson rally, Trump heaped praise on state GOP Chairwoman Kelli Ward, who in 2018 lost a three-way GOP Senate primary.
Trump called Ward “a friend of mine, somebody that was great, she would have been, oh, if she didn’t have three, four people running at the same time, she would’ve been your senator,” he told the crowd. “Hate to say it, she would have been your senator. A friend that’s so loyal, and strong, and a good person, Arizona GOP chair, Kelli Ward. She’s worked so hard. She is some warrior, and fighter.”
Ward was defeated by … McSally.
Who, by the way, wasn’t even called up to the stage at that Tucson rally.
It’s baffling that Trump would treat McSally almost as an annoyance in her own state, at a time when she is fighting for every vote.
Perhaps Trump has seen a clip of her debate with Democrat Mark Kelly earlier this month, when she was asked whether she was proud of her support for Trump and replied that she was “proud to be fighting for Arizonans.”
Or maybe he’s seen her poll numbers.
Either way, this is what loyalty will get you, Sen. McSally.
“If you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas,” Martha. You always knew that Donald Trump was a sexist, misogynist pig, and a serial sexual predator. He mistreated you just like he has mistreated every woman he has ever known.
When you are a willing enabler to such a wretched man, it’s hard to feel any sympathy for you.
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On Friday, a reporter asked Democratic Senate candidate Mark Kelly, “The president was here just the other day and he’s formed this partnership with Martha McSally. But he stood up here on stage and said that, ‘nobody wants to hear this, Martha.’ What did you hear when he made that statement?”
Kelly responded, “Well, I think it’s unfortunate. I think the president of the United States should have respect for an Arizona senator.”
See: https://twitter.com/VaughnHillyard/status/1322272812426358784
Martha McSally frequently calls herself a “woman warrior” role model for women. Yet when a reporter asked her about this incident, McSally shrugged off Trump’s treatment of her.
“Give me a break,” McSally told reporters Thursday at an event with Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., in Scottsdale. “President Trump will be President Trump, and I’m fighting with him to save the country.”
So “boys will be boys” and women just have to accept their disrespect and abuse. It is what is. Sounds pretty 1950’s to me. Women aren’t going back to the 1950’s, Martha. They don’t have to put up with this kind of abuse anymore.
I like when Blue captures the personal stories, like Maureen Dowd with the Bush’s.
If she had the slightest shred of dignity she would have taken all the time in the world to get to the podium while glaring at him. On the other hand the late Alfred Hitchcock could have summed up their relationship this way:
Good evening. Tonight’s story is about a woman, Martha McSally making her way up the 45th President’s rectum. Thus we have the peculiar situation of an ahole being up an ahole’s a**hole.
I’m clapping, you may not hear it, but I’m clapping!
My theory about Martha has always been and still is that she bet the farm on Trump believing her extreme loyalty would be rewarded with a BIG JOB at the Department of Defense. Can’t you just see her, looking in the mirror every night and asking, “Why not me?”
As a legislator, she’s done absolutely nothing in six years except toe the Trump/GOP line and has shown no interest in learning the job. Her prop dog, Boomer, could do better. For Martha, Congress seems to be a stepping stone to greater things. Even her campaign ads, which are nothing but a fictitious smear job against Mark Kelly, reveal that there is nothing on her list of accomplishments.
But I do agree that a woman who would allow herself to be publicly humiliated by the Misogynist-In-Chief has very little self-respect. She should have figured out by now that Trump blames her for his poll numbers in Arizona because he certainly can’t blame himself, he never does.
But dreams die hard and Martha can’t give up on him now. What else has she got? A gig on Fox News?
You are correct. The White House occupant’s number one priority is himself. Martha and the rest of the licksplitters are mere pawns, to be cast off whenever he is done using them. Poor Martha made the choice to lie in the doodoo, and the smell emanating is the result. As they said in “A Few Good Men,” you are going down Martha and there’s nothing you can do about it.