Donald Trump's Open Meeting Just Proves How Right Michael Wolff Is (Margaret Carlson, Daily Beast)

[highplainsdem]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trumps-open-meeting-just-proves-how-right-michael-wolff-is

The biggest, the best, the longest White House reality episode took place on Tuesday to dismal ratings. Rather than be the sure-fire, live-cast way to change the subject from Michael Wolff's book in which his staff and others declared his dangerous incompetence and show Trump at his deal-making best, the meeting revealed that on the whole Wolff got it right.

Trump had only to hold two things in his mind at the same time. DACA, yes; the Wall he chanted about at every campaign rally, yes. And oh, don’t be wooed by Democrats. Do not flirt, as he did with Chuck and Nancy over Chinese food. Do not believe they like you. Do not give in to the thrill of the deal. Democrats are the enemy.

But he couldn’t do that and his failure happened in real time for everyone to witness. Did you see, social media buzzed, what Trump just said to Senator Dianne Feinstein about a clean bill being great and he would take the heat.

Can you believe it?

No one could, least of all his advisors who thought they were having a much-needed do-over after their major pushback on Sunday failed. Stephen Miller’s mindless, repetitive defense of Trump to CNN’s Jake Tapper got him cut off and then escorted out of the building. Let Trump be a prepared president with a task so simple even he can’t blow it. Instead they had to watch in horror as he failed to perform. When Rep. Kevin McCarthy is the smart one in the room and you have to erase incriminating parts of the transcript like a Kremlin operative, you know it’s been a spectacular failure.

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Trump inadvertently demonstrated what Wolff, convinced of his own superiority, could not do in round-the-clock interviews with friendly anchors: that despite Wolff himself being above the rigor and rules of mere journalists, on the larger truth he is right. The president is impulsive, uncontrollable and unteachable, burdened with an ignorance he doesn’t have the self-awareness to realize he has or the discipline to overcome it. Rather than show he's "like, really smart" and went to "the best colleges for college," Trump showed that the job reduced to its simplest level is beyond his grasp leaving his advisers sickened like parents watching their well-coached child put a square peg in a round hole at a pre-school admissions interview.

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[underpants]

1. I like the way she writes. N/t

[highplainsdem]

3. So do I.

[Dennis Donovan]

2. "When Rep. Kevin McCarthy is the smart one in the room..."

"...and you have to erase incriminating parts of the transcript like a Kremlin operative, you know it’s been a spectacular failure. "

[Fred Sanders]

4. Did not graduate Wharton College. Was not #1 student. Not even in business stream. 3 lies.

One sentence. It never ends.

[northoftheborder]

5. Watching Dotard tonight brag about his "ratings" for.....

....his wonderful performance at the conference yesterday with the legislators, the finest meeting ever held, etc...., hugging his chest, as much as I loathe and detest the man, I actually felt a pang of pity for him; he is delusional; he seeks so desperately for admiration it is sickening.

[phylny]

6. And yet Im at a Christian conference

and a man at my table was in awe of what he saw on Fox yesterday morning. The president was IN charge and TOOK CONTROL of that meeting, getting both sides to sit down and negotiate!

“No matter whether you support him or not, you HAD to be impressed with him!”

Um, yeah nope.

[MariaCSR]

7. That man is an idiot.

[malaise]

8. Didn't you hear him say that the media wrote him letters telling him

that it was a great meeting, probably the greatest meeting ever?