'A witless show of arrogance': Trump trashed for appearance at SC/Clemson football game

Donald Trump's appearance at the South Carolina/Clemson football game on Saturday was greeted with a loud chorus of boos and, on Sunday, a brutal review by McClatchy columnist Isaac Bailey who dropped the hammer on the former president and the "cowards" who invited him to take the field.

In a column published on Sunday by South Carolina's "The State," Bailey wrote that the game, which he described as "a quasi-religious holiday in the Palmetto State," now carries the "stench" of a Trump appearance.

As part of his brutal brutal appraisal of the former president, whom he called "a 91-time indicted and credibly-accused sexual abuser," the columnist also blasted South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster (R) who accompanied the former president, writing 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 University of South Carolina should be ashamed. But it is apparently run by cowards comfortable bending the knee to an obviously-compromised governor, and an even more compromised presidential candidate who inspired a violent attack at the heart of our democracy just a couple years ago," he wrote before adding, "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."

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In that vein, he pointed out that Trump showed up at the football game in South Carolina but refuses to share the debate stage with former Gov. Nikki Haley (R-SC) who is also running for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination.

That, Bailey claimed, is evidence the former president is a "coward."

"It’s that they knew everyone with the power to stop their witless show of machismo and arrogance would roll over and let them do whatever the heck they wanted to do," he wrote before concluding, "Haley’s team won the football game, and she won an important political victory against a man who brags about how tough he is but whose decision to fly into Columbia was political weakness. McMaster and others pretended the man they treated like an emperor had new clothes. But those of us with eyes, and a functioning brain, know the truth, that he was exposed as the naked coward’s bully he’s long been."

You can read his entire column here.