Important Tweet From The President-Elect

Trump has long been feuding with Graydon Carter, editor of Vanity Fair (see my previous posts, entitled "Must Read: Trump v Graydon Carter (Vanity Fair)" and "Graydon Carter At Vanity Fair Revisited.") It was Carter who, in Spy magazine, came up with the descriptive term "short-fingered vulgarian" which so enraged The Donald.

A post by Laura Clawson at Daily Kos, entitled "Trump Grill gets a bad review and Donald just can't keep his Twitter finger still," references an article by Tina Nguyen at Vanity Fair entitled "Trump Grill Could Be the Worst Restaurant in America." The subtitle is "And it reveals everything you need to know about our next president."

The article concludes:

I reflexively want to be generous in my assessment of what the post-election Trump Grill says about the Trump presidency. Perhaps it’s a sign that Trump is in over his head, and a shallow, mediocre man who runs a shallow, mediocre business empire (and restaurant) would sink and implode, crushing the expectations of millions of his hopeful supporters. But watching Trump parade his enemies through the nearby lobby, taunting them with prestigious appointments only to cruelly humiliate them, I had to look over at the human cattle herd at the Trump Grill, overwhelming a well-meaning staff with their dreams of a meal fit for a president, and wonder if he cared about any of them, either.

Read the article for the less-than-flattering review of the Trump Grill (or, on some signage, the Trump Grille). But Trump cannot resist lashing out at the tiniest and most insignificant of perceived slights, tweeting:

Has anyone looked at the really poor numbers of @VanityFair Magazine. Way down, big trouble, dead! Graydon Carter, no talent, will be out!

He postponed his press conference, promised for December 15, at which he was to outline his plan for distancing himself from his business interests in order to avoid charges of conflict of interest, pleading that he was too busy; immediately after the cancellation, he met with Kanye West before heading out on another victory tour to bask in the admiration of his devoted fans, and had time to tweet his displeasure with a negative view of a Trump Tower restaurant. It's a matter of priorities.

As Charlie Pierce puts it in an Esquire article entitled "We Haven't Even Seen the Worst of Trump's Manic Behavior":

Eight o'clock in the morning, a month before he becomes President of the United States, and the first thing he thinks of is to set his stubby lil' fingers firing away in pursuit of a petty feud that began almost 30 years ago. This is manic behavior of the worst sort. Or, more precisely, of a worse sort, because I fear we haven't come close yet to seeing what the worst sort of manic behavior out of this guy would be. For example, can you imagine what his reaction will be if some murderous gang of idiots makes a try at one of the properties bearing his name? We could lose a damn hemisphere.