Brennan to Trump: "Your self adoration is disgraceful"

[kpete]

I served 6 Presidents, 3 Rs & 3Ds. I directly supported Clinton, Bush 43, and Obama. While I didn't agree with all their policy choices, I admired and respected all of them, as they put country above their personal interests. Not so with you, as your self adoration is disgraceful

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[ginnyinWI]

1. So pathetically needy. What did his daddy do to him. n/t

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. W has father issues too. Invaded Iraq to prove he could go one better than his pappy. . . nt

[zentrum]

16. Agree. Don't see 43

…..at all as putting country before self. His popularity was flagging and he wanted to be a "War President" to save it all. One of the worst, most tragic, never ending bungles of foreign policiy ever, instigated by Haliburton/Cheney and okayed by Daddy-do-you-approve-me-now-George.

[not fooled]

24. donnie seems to want

to leave a similar smoking pile of wreckage as w with Iraq. Except this one will be in the U.S.

[zentrum]

30. Yup.

[tclambert]

18. I suspect daddy said, "You're a disgrace to the family name."

And that's why he slaps the family name on everything he can, symbolically saying, "See, daddy? No so disgraceful now, huh?"

[BoneyardDem]

19. Does a really decent human being, with talent and gifts have to tout it all the time?

...I think you may have hit on something there. Daddy didn't notice Trump even existed, unless Trump made self congratulatory noises. I think Trump confuses that self congratulatory yammering, with the assumption that he is speaking the minds of those he's talking to and "making" others notice and love him.

[William Seger]

3. Extremely FRAGILE self adoration

The problem with narcissists isn't the size of of their bloated egos; it's the fragility -- the incessant need for positive feedback that people are buying the act, and the petty vindictiveness at any offense.

[ChubbyStar]

7. In the fragility lies the danger

If you have ever encountered one of these damaged freaks, you will understand completely. 16 years after the first blow from one I am still scarred.

[Zoonart]

26. (((((((((Chubby))))))))))))

Been there, done that. Eight years for me. It comes rushing back in an instant.
Damaged freaks...says it all.

[ailsagirl]

4. President Obama has a healthy sense of self-esteem--

along with a tremendous amount of dignity and humility. What dump has is some sort of sickness. It's twisted and ugly and very destructive.

[Texin]

11. Obama also had a scholarly intelligence. tRump has nothing. He's just a con in an expensive suit.

[ailsagirl]

15. EXTREMELY intelligent!!

"sigh"

And dump doesn't even look good in the suit, regardless of the price!!

[oberliner]

5. He admired and respected Bush 43?

How did Bush put country above his personal interests? Seems to me he did the opposite of that.

[40RatRod]

8. President Cheney was the one who told him to invade the wrong county.

[oberliner]

13. I thought he wanted to avenge his daddy and go after Saddam

[snort]

17. That was the carrot.

[Grammy23]

6. His willingness to carry a grudge to the nth degree is another charming trait of this

Dictator-Wannabee. No slight, insult or jab is ever left to wither and fade away. No! He gathers them up in his gunny sack of sorrow to carry around like treasure to pull out and relive — again and again. Instead of hearing the criticism and considering if it has merit (and much of the criticism he has received in his life is right on target), he rejects it, considers it an insult and the person’s name goes on his sh*t list for life. He is everything we don’t want in a leader and he lacks everything we do want in our leaders.

[Moostache]

12. I find him to be the most pathetic figure in World History, maybe EVER...

Trump is the classic insecure bully. He cannot enjoy anything in his life because he lives in constant terror of being exposed for exactly what he is - an idiot with no self-esteem than must rage and scream at the wind to appear "strong".

He is weak.
He is stupid.
He is insecure.
He is worthless to humanity.
He is pathetic.

The sooner he dies, the better off the planet and the species Homo Sapiens will be...

[ginnyinWI]

28. which is why when Obama roasted him at that dinner--

he couldn't take it. Sh*t list for life is right.

[Kurt V.]

9. i was hoping he would figure out he is not dictator and quit. like all his failures before,

he would just walk away leaving others to clean up his mess. but with the Mueller probe he can't now.

[left-of-center2012]

10. Trump told us he has the smartest brain

He just never told us whose brain it is,
and if he keeps it in a jar.

[RandomAccess]

14. This is unbelievable -- Former IC and other high level

public servants DO NOT GO PUBLIC with their criticisms like this, as a rule. This poor man has obviously reached his last fuck to give.

[MariaCSR]

20. Yep.

You know it's bad when it's gotten to that point.

[RandomAccess]

22. And he wasn't exactly gentle about it either

[Angry Dragon]

21. Trump is an egotistical low self-esteem racist bully

[Cha]

23. And, just look at the idiot he's

"self adoring".

[ailsagirl]

25. He's a total disgrace, period.

Hi Cha!!

Hope you're doing well!

[Cha]

27. Aloha, ailsagirl!

Good to see you! doing ok.. Mahalo.

Hope you are

[summer_in_TX]

29. I always felt like 43 fooled himself about his motives.

He thought he had better motives than he had and thought he was a better person than he was. At least that was my take.

When push came to shove though, he refused all Cheney's pressure to pardon Scooter Libby. So in that way Brennan isn't completely wrong.