One thing Trump should not do is to tangle with Sullenberger. Or maybe he should, to put the last nail in the coffin of his re-election.
This is what Sully said today in the New York Times op ed section;
Capt. ‘Sully’ Sullenberger: Like Joe Biden, I Once Stuttered, Too. I Dare You to Mock Me.
As a small boy in Denison, Texas, I remember vividly the anguish of being called on in grade school, knowing that I was going to have a hard time getting the words out; that my words could not keep up with my mind, and they would often come out jumbled. My neck and face would quickly begin to flush a bright red, the searing heat rising all the way to the top of my head; every eye in the room on me; the intense and painful humiliation, and bullying that would follow, all because of my inability to get the words out.
Those feelings came rushing back, when I heard Lara Trump mocking former Vice President Joe Biden at a Trump campaign event, with the very words that caused my childhood agony. “Joe, can you get it out?” Ms. Trump was seen saying onstage, as a few giggles are heard from an otherwise silent audience. “Let’s get the words out, Joe.”
In the interest of full disclosure, I attended a fundraiser last year for the Biden campaign, but this issue goes beyond politics. Regardless of how you feel about Joe Biden, or his chances of becoming the Democratic nominee for president; whether you are a Republican, a Democrat, or none of the above; whether you stuttered as a child or laughed at one who did; whether as a parent you try to protect your own stuttering child from taunts such as those made by the president’s daughter-in-law; these words come without hesitation: Stop. Grow up. Show some decency. People who can’t, have no place in public life.
Is this the “have no decency” moment of the Trump era?
I met Trump long ago and we really did not get along. As I said before, if it had been in a bar and not a fancy restaurant, it would have gotten physical.
I also met Sully. To start with, he is taller than I am and I a taller than Trump. But beyond the physical, Sully is special.
I happen to believe that I can prove he could be the best pilot ever. But that perspective is for a bar drinking beer.
I am a “neo-neo-neo-gnostic”, I have come to the conclusion that God exists but I can’t figure it out. If God exists and cares about the future of civilization, it would create the confrontation between Sully and Trump. The Devil created Trump but God created Sully.
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The Hudson miracle was crafted by God perhaps.
And now we have God’s representative telling the Devil’s one what to do;
This culture of cruelty is what drives decent people from public service, and what makes millions of Americans recoil from politics, and even from participating in our democracy. Vice President Biden has spoken openly — and courageously, in my view — about the pain of his severe childhood stutter. He takes time to reach out to children who have suffered as he did.
As I grew older, I learned to manage and overcome my stuttering, through much hard work and intense focus. I learned to slow down and to enunciate each word with precision. I joined the church choir, and found that singing helped me to practice controlling my breath, and the formation of words. I learned to resist and overcome the bullying.
I cannot explain how Trump got to the White Hose as much as I cannot explain how it was Sullenberger on the pilot’s seat that day in 2009.
But one thing I know, is that Trump and his acolytes better not go up against Sully anywhere or anyhow.