'Undisputed idiot king': Former NBC journalist calls Eric Trump 'the epitome of stupidity'

16 September

Eric Trump attends his father's civil trial in New York City on October 2, 2023 (Image: Shutterstock)

First Son Eric Trump's false claim that political violence is exclusively carried out by the American left prompted Emmy-winning journalist David Shuster to declare that President Donald Trump's second-oldest son was the "undisputed idiot king" and "a grotesque epitome of stupidity so profound he renders the rest of his family — already a display of moral and cognitive deformities that would confound Sigmund Freud — almost respectable by comparison."

After MAGA activist Charlie Kirk was killed by a lone gunman on a Utah college campus last week, Eric Trump recently joined a far-right podcast to lay blame for Kirk's murder at the feet of the left. This is despite the alleged shooter's staunch Republican family, non-partisan voter registration status and his own friends saying he never discussed politics.

"The bullets are only flying one way," Eric Trump told podcast host Will Cain. "Listen, there's fringe on both sides, 100%, but like, I don't know ... These people have tried to do everything they could to take us out of the game."

In a Tuesday post to his Substack, Shuster — who is a veteran of NBC, CNN and Fox News — called Eric "the dumbest Trump, which is saying something." He went on to say that Trump's adult son saying that the left was the only side carrying political violence was "the intellectual equivalent of spraying manure in your own eyes while insisting it is perfume."

"In this single sentence, Eric demonstrated the mental agility of a cornered sloth," Shuster wrote. "And the selective memory of a dung beetle rolling it’s own feculent ball across the lawn of public discourse."

Shuster pointed out that Eric Trump glossed over high-profile recent instances of right-wing violence, like the June murder of former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman (D) and her husband Mark — in which the alleged killer also wounded Democratic state senator Jon Hoffman and his wife, Yvette. Shuster also reminded his readers that a man angry about vaccines fired on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, and killed the police officer who confronted him. The former MSNBC host also didn't hold back in criticizing Eric Trump from using Kirk's murder to promote his new book.

"Eric was baffled when critics said the pledge looked opportunistic. Maybe the word itself baffled Eric since 'opportunistic' has five syllables," Shuster wrote. "...He is the family’s apex of ignorance. The pinnacle of self-important incompetence. The organism whose very existence makes the rest of the Trump clan’s failings appear almost tolerable."

Click here to read Shuster's post in its entirety.

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