David Frum joined the chorus of condemnation that is being leveled at Donald Trump over his Oval Office berating of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Frum, a onetime speechwriter for former President George W. Bush, slammed and ridiculed one way in which Republicans are sucking up to Trump over the fractious exchange.
They “keep saying ‘He was so manly, he was such a boss,’” Frum noted to CNN’s John Berman on Monday.
“And I think, you know what? I don’t have time for your psychosexual anxieties,” Frum, now a staff writer at The Atlantic, continued.
The comment caused Berman to raise his eyebrows.
“You may feel inadequate in your masculinity and are looking for some puffed up person on television to bully a valiant leader fighting for a valiant people,” Frum added. “But, I think every true American watched that scene and felt shame.”
Watch Frum’s analysis here:
Frum, a vocal and longtime critic of Trump, on Friday argued in a piece for The Atlantic that the “ugly” truth had been revealed by Trump and his Vice President JD Vance, who also attacked Zelenskyy in the meeting.
The duo showed “to Americans and to America’s allies their alignment with Russia, and their animosity toward Ukraine in general and its president in particular,” he wrote.
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