Karl Rove Undeterred In New WSJ Editorial After Trump Called Him A ‘Total Loser’ | EUROtoday

There’s a brand new chapter within the spat between Karl Rove and President Donald Trump, and Trump’s not going to love it very a lot.

In a Wednesday editorial within the Wall Street Journal, the veteran Republican strategist doubled down on his earlier evaluation that Trump’s in “very bad shape” on some points, particularly the economic system.

That opinion, supplied final week on Fox News, triggered a right away response from Trump on social media, the place he referred to as Rove a “total Loser who’s been wrong about almost everything!”

Rove appeared to seek out the state of affairs nearly amusing as he mulled it over Wednesday.

“I’m glad he was watching but am a bit cloudy on how I got under the president’s skin,” he wrote.

“Maybe he doesn’t like to be second-guessed,” he ventured. “Maybe my praise wasn’t lavish enough.”

Rove then returned to the identical line of thought that appears to have irked Trump within the first place, assessing all of the methods the president is self-sabotaging his second time period.

As earlier than, Rove argued, Trump stays very weak on the economic system, retains capturing himself within the foot with bizarre distractions like imagining himself because the pope, and his repeated declare he can’t convey again immigrants he’s wrongly imprisoned in an El Salvador jail appears particularly feeble.

“Don’t waste more time arguing about whether Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a bad guy,” Rove suggested Trump. “Or intimate he can’t be retrieved from the El Salvador prison. The latter reeks of weakness.

“Bring Mr. Garcia back to the U.S. and put him in a courtroom. If he’s as bad as the president says, then it’s game, set, match. If not, he’ll get justice and the issue will fade.”

Turning to tariffs, Rove marveled at how poorly Trump has tried to promote them to the American public by repeatedly saying younger ladies must sacrifice by getting fewer dolls at Christmas.

“These comments made him sound like Scrooge,” Rove wrote. “Get less, pay more isn’t a winning message.”

Rove closed with a pledge to maintain doing what he’s been doing, presidential name-calling be damned:

“My job as a commentator remains: call balls and strikes. I’ll keep doing that. And I’ll be grateful whenever the president tunes in. Americans want their president to succeed, no matter who he is or what party we are.”