Donald Trump has been whining about being bombarded with “gotcha questions” about the Middle East on Hugh Hewitt’s radio show.

I thought Hewitt was fairly gentle and respectful in the interview — see the transcript — and that Trump did a fine job of embarrassing himself with his ignorance of the players and issues in the region. But Trump’s natural response, whenever he does a face plant, is to blame someone else. In this case, he dismissed Hewitt as a “third-rate radio show announcer.”

Hewitt is such an insignificant third-rater that Trump has appeared on his show five times before. But this merely confirms what a lot of us have been thinking about Trump’s bluster: that it’s overcompensation for a profound insecurity, for a delicate ego that needs stroking.

Read the article “It’s Not That Donald Trump Doesn’t Know, It’s That He Doesn’t Care” on thefederalist.com.