How Staff Keeps Trump Happy During the Pandemic

[applegrove]

How Staff Keeps Trump Happy During the Pandemic

July 10, 2020 at 11:00 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 225 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2020/07/10/how-staff-keeps-trump-happy-during-the-pandemic/

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Washington Post: “Other top White House advisers — including Hope Hicks and Dan Scavino — have also sought to buttress Trump’s mood with events they thought he would enjoy, such as celebrating truckers by bringing 18-wheelers onto the White House South Lawn in mid-April or creating social media videos that feature throngs of his adoring fans.”

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[applegrove]

1. Isn't the president supposed to comfort the people while keeping the threat real? nt

[Celerity]

2. it is literally like try to appease an insane Roman emperor

[blm]

6. ✔️

[lagomorph777]

10. It is literally like trying to appease a colicky baby with a pacifier.

[Celerity]

16. a colicky baby spitting the dummy does not have the power of life and death over billions

(a far higher number, percentage wise, of the planetary population than a Roman emperor, even at peak empiric power, had)

[Nevilledog]

3. Hope offering to press his pants.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. Trump likes trucks.

Maybe they can give him a nice set of Tonka Trucks he can play with on the floor of the Oval Office, going "Vroom! Vroom!"

[empedocles]

23. 'Vroom', ''Vroom'

[SoonerPride]

5. Babysitting the toddler in chief

It’s outrageous

[C_U_L8R]

7. The beastly baby

[Celerity]

9. +100000

[chowder66]

24. +eleventy

[Mike 03]

8. "creating social media videos that feature throngs of his adoring fans"

Does anyone remember the Martin Scorsese movie King of Comedy, where Robert DeNiro portrays a failed comedian named Rupert Pupkin, who in his mother's basement surrounds himself with lifelike cardboard figures of real celebrities, and pretends he is a beloved, adored guest on popular talk shows, and fills in the sound of people laughing at his jokes and applauding him?

Trump is Rupert Pupkin.

[Celerity]

11. great analogy

[lagomorph777]

13. Pupkin in a Potemkin village

That's Trumpworld

[Poiuyt]

12. I read this article this morning and wondered why?

Why would anyone feel so entranced with a man child that they feel the need to appease his immature needs? Any normal human would just say, "Fuck this" and walk away. What are these people getting from being around trump that they would put up with this shit?

[barbtries]

17. i cannot fathom.

i think of people in abusive relationships and how hard it is for them to leave? considering how openly abusive he is toward members of the press i can only imagine what it's like when the cameras are off.

yeah. unfathomable.

[unblock]

18. tax cuts, validation of their bigotry, seemingly great job on their resume.

but yeah. history is littered with complete nutcases in charge of entire countries and it's mind boggling how supposedly sane people allow this to happen and continue to happen.

and then we get lulled into this idea that we're better than those people in the distant past.

and then along comes donnie.

[Ilsa]

19. It can't be about money in the job they are in currently.

My understanding is that they barely make enough money to live there. They must be hoping for a high-paying job afterwards. IMO, it's not worth it. The enablers look as stupid as the manbaby.

[demosincebirth]

14. Bring him lots of toys?

[barbtries]

15. every day

they throw a party for little donnie and if they don't they catch hell for it. it is so sick.

[NRaleighLiberal]

20. give him a binkie and his bottle and put him in the crib

[dalton99a]

21. More people must be sacrificed - perhaps in gladiatorial contests

[PSPS]

22. They did the same in hitler's waning days. Lots of Leni Riefenstahl films to "keep him happy."

[NBachers]

25. My favorite is the stirring motivational speech from Independence Day with trump imposed over

President Bill Pullman. He was so enthralled with himself that he actually released it onto the public via Twitter.

Link to tweet

[tanyev]

26. Yes, boys and girls, it is possible to find a babysitting job that pays $180,000/year.

But you have to sacrifice a piece of your soul to get it.

[Thekaspervote]

27. My thoughts exactly...thank you!!

[rickford66]

28. They should try one of those laser pointers. Works great on cats.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

29. Cats are much smarter and more energetic.

Fat Nixon wouldn't chase a laser pointer dot without riding in a golf cart.