Trump the victim: President complains in private about the pandemic hurting himself
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Source: Washington Post
Callers on President Trump in recent weeks have come to expect what several allies and advisers describe as a woe-is-me preamble.
The president rants about the deadly coronavirus destroying the greatest economy, one he claims to have personally built. He laments the unfair fake news media, which he vents never gives him any credit. And he bemoans the sick, twisted police officers in Minneapolis, whose killing of an unarmed black man in their custody provoked the nationwide racial justice protests that have confounded the president.
Gone, say these advisers and confidants, many speaking on the condition of anonymity to detail private conversations, are the usual pleasantries and greetings.
Instead, Trump often launches into a monologue placing himself at the center of the nations turmoil. The president has cast himself in the starring role of the blameless victim of a deadly pandemic, of a stalled economy, of deep-seated racial unrest, all of which happened to him rather than the country.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-the-victim-president-complains-in-private-about-the-pandemic-hurting-himself/2020/07/09/187142c6-c089-11ea-864a-0dd31b9d6917_story.html
Champp
(2,114 posts)Sad.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)soothsayer
(38,601 posts)Thats a pleasant surprise
central scrutinizer
(11,648 posts)Its not a crime if its not on video.
tanyev
(42,558 posts)That would really show us, boy howdy.
Dave in VA
(2,037 posts)SledDriver
(2,059 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)seems like every other day that there is a leak from republican's sources about private conversations .. ..
Hmmmmmmmmmmmm. Do I believe majority of the leaks, no.
C_U_L8R
(45,002 posts)What does he think his job is? He's no president. He's a professional tv watcher and racist social media troll who golfs 1/3 of the time and gorges himself on fast food while spittle raging.
MotorCityBeard
(201 posts)MotorCityBeard
(201 posts)This would be hard to take from a child or a teenager. It's just sickening coming from him.
I think I am going to get Mary Trump's book, just to see how someone who had so many advantages growing up ended up turning out like this.
UpInArms
(51,283 posts)Whiny crapweasel
Cha
(297,220 posts)the start instead of lying and trying to fool people that it was a "democrat hoax".
But that wouldn't be trump.. he'd rather jump on his own petard and endlessly Whine about it later.
denem
(11,045 posts)(ie he was not donald trump) he would have been in the box seat for the GE. :shudder:
Cha
(297,220 posts)enough to know that, either.
underpants
(182,803 posts)Well no S.
Yeah hope and optimism - that guy just exudes it doesnt he.
I love the close. This great economic master thinks the entire economy can rebound in a month.
Despite his bouts of moroseness, Trump can also exhibit optimism not entirely grounded in reality. He has continued to tell advisers, for instance, that he is certain the virus will go away by October and that there will be a cure by then a word he favors over vaccine.
Then, he adds in these tellings, the economy will rebound overnight and he will win a second term.
Javaman
(62,530 posts)orange asshole: is there any dirt on this virus that we can dig up?
jared: I'll get right on that!
nervous looks all around are exchanged.
ivanka: daddy, it's a virus.
orange asshole: DON'T TELL ME WHAT I DON'T KNOW!!!
AllyCat
(16,187 posts)The NPDer I grew up with did the same thing. Everything bad that happened was blamed on the Family Name Luck. Incidentally, that wasnt HER last band but everyone elses. It was really all someone elses fault.
rurallib
(62,415 posts)where staff would bring him 3 meals a day, maybe let him out to exercise for an hour a day or so. The staff could stand guard to make sure no one could get in to bother Donny and also make sure he wouldn't wander out...........
Tiger8
(432 posts)Whats he gonna do.....ride a golf cart around the prison yard?
AKing
(511 posts)greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)kimbutgar
(21,148 posts)Ones. All of those People he has not expressed sympathy for!
BadGimp
(4,015 posts)These things are not happening to us, they are happening to him.
Omaha Steve
(99,632 posts)Feature, analysis of White House behind the scenes. Not important breaking news.
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