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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