House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) made a trip to Mar-a-Lago earlier this week to meet with former President Donald Trump while fundraising in the area, according to a Politico report early Thursday.
All of them are referred to as “former President X.”
All of them are addressed directly as “Mr. X.”
Article I. section 9, clause 8:
" No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States:"
The honorific title of nobility “Mr. President” or just “President” remains with the office and is granted temporarily to the person holding that office.
I had the same thought: Coming to implore Il Padrone on the day of his daughter’s wedding. Bonasera, Bonasera, what have I ever done to make you treat me so disrespectfully?
The people who need to be told first are all in the media, and they routinely address former office holders by the title of office reserved for the current office holder.
It’s misplaced “respect” and it gives a false gravitas to people who don’t, as a rule, know what the word “gravitas” means.
There’s a factor here at work that I don’t understand. It isn’t just that these GOP clowns want his approval or his base, there is something more at work here. Why make such public efforts to kiss up to some loser?