"This Is So Unfair to Me": Trump Whines About His COVID-19 Victimhood as Campaign Flails
Source: Vanity Fair
As he headed into Memorial Day weekend, Donald Trump complained that he was COVID-19s biggest victim. He was just in a fucking rage, said a person who spoke with Trump late last week. He was saying, This is so unfair to me! Everything was going great. We were cruising to reelection! Even as the death toll neared 100,000 and unemployment ranks swelled to over 38 million, Trump couldnt see the pandemic as anything other than something that had happened to him. The problem is he has no empathy, the adviser said. Trump complained that he should have been warned about the virus sooner. The intelligence community let me down! he said.
The White House declined to comment.
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But the biggest obstacle standing in the way of a Trump-campaign reset is the candidate. Trump is doing it to himself by tweeting idiotic conspiracy theories about Joe Scarborough. Women are tired of this shit, said another former West Wing official. An outside adviser agreed. Trump cant pivot to a different strategy, the adviser told me. He only knows one strategywhich is attack. It worked in 2016. But now its not what people are looking for. The adviser told me that Trumps New York friends are planning an intervention to get him to stop tweeting about the Morning Joe cohost.
And when hes not feeling helpless or aggrieved, Trump continues to cling to magical thinking. He lives in his own fucking world, the outside adviser said. Trump recently told a friend that the Moderna vaccine is going to be ready in months.
Read more: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/05/trump-whines-about-his-covid-19-victimhood-as-campaign-flails
Can you imagine Lincoln re. the Civil War: "Why does this shit happen to me? This is so unfair!"
MaryMagdaline
(6,849 posts)So unfair indeed
benfranklin1776
(6,427 posts)The dead and those whose bodies have been ravaged by this virus would gladly trade places with the sociopath in chief.
MaryMagdaline
(6,849 posts)Bengus81
(6,907 posts)Keep it up Donnie,this is easy pickin's............
trueblue2007
(17,138 posts)Kamala Harris @KamalaHarris
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Over 1.6 million people in the United States have tested positive for coronavirus.
Almost 100,000 have died.
Nearly 40 million Americans have filed for unemployment.
Trump was briefed on this threat in January. This full-blown public health crisis didnt have to happen.
benfranklin1776
(6,427 posts)The carnage is his responsibility and he must reap the rancid harvest hes sown. For once in his miserable life he must be held accountable.
onetexan
(12,994 posts)same sh!t, different day
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)When he says things like this, that defy reality, he's begging someone to agree with him to take his guilt and anxiety away IMO. Reporters who refuse to validate his delusions (in other words, most all of them) are the targets of his wrath. I'll bet this is why Twitter and rallies are his preferred modes of communication; it's so easy to find validation there.
Mopar151
(9,965 posts)Anything that is not adulation is attack, disloyalty, betrayal! Or, at the very least, disregarded with prejudice & sniveling.
TeamPooka
(24,155 posts)Joe and Mika really get under his skin because in Trump's eyes they used to be "friends."
hatrack
(59,439 posts)And we know how Shitstain feels about dogs. "Dog" is like his ultimate personal slam.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,784 posts)Clearly fogged in
(1,895 posts)Kane begs Susan not to leave, only to reveal his narcissism by saying, You can't do this to me (3:26 in clip)
https://m.
Judi Lynn
(160,211 posts)OMGWTF
(3,894 posts)Wm Randolph Hurst worked to make cannabis illegal.
maxsolomon
(32,975 posts)Use your name and get trashed.
Provide the comment anonymously, and the reporter gets trashed.
stillcool
(32,626 posts)what an understatement. Maybe he should donate his brain to science. I'm sure there's nothing like it.
vapor2
(1,215 posts)reACTIONary
(5,749 posts)... nothing to it?
greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)PatSeg
(46,783 posts)but I don't think he was "cruising to reelection" before the pandemic. He was hardly as popular as he believes. Now he will just lose by more votes.
Bengus81
(6,907 posts)Article 25.....NOW
Bengus81
(6,907 posts)ToxMarz
(2,154 posts)If he had just done a good job handling this crisis, all he really needed to do is step aside and let the experts do their thing. He might have walked away with an easy reelection. Look at Cuomo, he would have been a shoe in for reelection. All he did was implement what the experts laid out for him, and talk to the people nicely.
No one would have blamed him for the economy tanking.
MissMillie
(38,452 posts)He was so worried about keeping his job that he didn't do his job.
He had the opportunity to be leader, healer, and so much more. Hero even.
More worried about himself than about serving his country.
I sure as hell expected him to behave exactly the way he did. He's never given any indication that he was capable of anything more.
Nasruddin
(741 posts)He's had probably 100 or more opportunities to do a Cuomo (qv), and make people shrug their shoulders at his other missteps and ignorant rantings.
He could have done that just before day 1, with the 1st Women's March, for instance. He's such a phenomenal liar, why can't he face people and tell them some surprising, empathic-sounding BS, & take the wind from their sails? Even if it's a complete lie, we are all such suckers for a smooth-talking storyteller....
He's just not capable of anything like this. He's never going to get any better, and he's apparently surrounded by equally malevolent personalities who are not helping either.
zipplewrath
(16,646 posts)It's a long poem, but buried in there is the thought that in the end, leadership is about keeping your head in a crisis. People will actually be drawn to the person that in a crisis, stays calm and takes on the sense of responsibility for handling the crisis, freeing those around them to feel free to act without concern of being held responsible. You don't have to be the smartest, or know all the answers. You don't even have to know how to "fix" things. But if you'll just project the impression that "you've got this" people will support you and help you.
The converse is what we are seeing. In a crisis, the "leader" who starts seeking blame, looking to divert responsibility, and generally trying to figure out how to protect themselves from responsibility, will quickly find themselves standing alone with no one wanting to help. I've seen it more than once.
When I was leading a large team, something really bad happened and it wasn't clear at all that there was an answer. People were afraid of being fired. I called them all into a room and explained that, as team leader, regardless of what went wrong, if anyone was going to get fired, it was going to be me, so stop worrying. For one thing, I said, my bosses needed the people on my team in hopes of fixing this. Work the problem and let me handle the bosses. I came within days, nay, hours of being fired when one of the team members came in and showed proof that the problem was buried in a mistake by a subcontractor. One, that fortunately for me I had advised we not use. I told the team member that he had just saved my job. He looked proud as a peacock. But more importantly, the team had been working hard to find the cause, because they knew there would be a "reward" for finding it, not punishment for not finding it.
Trump could have gone on TV in early January and said what a risk we were facing and that we had to pull together as a country for the better part of a month, "to save us all" and our future. He would have sailed into a second term. But it meant he would have had to take direct responsibility for something that may, or may not, have worked.
world wide wally
(21,718 posts)sakabatou
(42,082 posts)Jeorge IX
(69 posts)Your father heartlessly chose not to pull out.
Miigwech
(3,741 posts)Beartracks
(12,761 posts)... so I guess he HAS been treated unfairly!
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Miigwech
(3,741 posts)Mc Mike
(9,106 posts)olddad65
(599 posts)To not just Hillary, the far more qualified candidate, but to the American citizens and to the American way of life.
aggiesal
(8,864 posts)He brought it on himself.
GROW UP, Pendejo!
George II
(67,782 posts)MyOwnPeace
(16,887 posts)if the USPS has to deliver these when ordered from Amazon!!!
MRDAWG
(501 posts)?
Drum
(8,909 posts)NotHardly
(1,062 posts)catbyte
(34,169 posts)MyOwnPeace
(16,887 posts)warmfeet
(3,321 posts)Learn from your mistakes, or die.
So far, we haven't learned a thing.
We hope to turn on a dime, though. Near future, certainly.
Historic NY
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Evolve Dammit
(16,632 posts)rocktivity
(44,555 posts)And he's going up against Joe "A Noun, A Verb, and 9/11" Biden this time -- an opponent who knows a few things about counter-attacking.
rocktivity
Hassler
(3,321 posts)Fritz Walter
(4,281 posts)I think his next performance review will take place in a woodshed. Probably in July.
One the positive side, COVID-Donnie has brought our nation down so deep, so quickly, that Putin or Xi can seize numerous and huge opportunities like low-hanging fruit.
However, the negative would be his likely failure to get re-elected, and that would force his handler to take drastic measures.
This is why the toddler-in-chief is trying to block absentee ballots, torpedo the RNC convention, not to mention daily (hourly?) twit-storms and shit-storms. Dog only knows what other desperate actions are ahead!
Blue Owl
(49,906 posts)WheelWalker
(8,943 posts)Hekate
(90,189 posts)Well, if that's the only issue that they see as dangerous, they are no friends of ours.
When Nixon got an intervention, there were a few remaining Republicans with a sense of honor and patriotism, and he ended up resigning.
Doesn't sound like that's going to happen here.
Aussie105
(5,211 posts)There is something seriously wrong with a party that supports him.
There is something seriously wrong with people who voted for him.
Just voting Trump out is only part of the solution to the problem. It goes way, way deeper than that. Democratic party has a lot of repair work to do once Trump gets voted out/dies from COVID-19/recalled by his alien overlords. (Delete all options you consider less pleasurable.)
Brainfodder
(6,423 posts)SnowCritter
(808 posts)Your own incompetence and arrogance has brought you to this point.
Truck Fump!
MissMillie
(38,452 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,063 posts)And diaper Don tries to make it about himself.