A lot of people are crying around Donald Trump
WASHINGTON – Something remarkable happened, according to Donald Trump, when Donald Trump arrived at his campaign rally in Evansville, Indiana last week. Nine “miners” greeted him backstage. They were “tough guys,” “seriously tough cookies,” men he wouldn’t want to fight. But eight of the nine were crying. “Crying out of happiness,” Trump said. “Because they’re back (to work).”
Eight days later at a campaign fundraiser in Fargo, North Dakota another moving moment, in his telling, occurred when he was walking into the room: “A strong man came up to me, tough kind of a guy, and said: ‘I want to thank you, Mr. President, for saving our country.’ And he had tears coming down his eyes,” Trump said.
Trump flew from North Dakota to South Dakota. There, he repeated the story but there was something odd about this version. This time the nine men were “steelworkers,” not miners, and the encounter happened “at the opening of one of the big plants for United States Steel,” not backstage at the Indiana rally.
Trump tells a lot of stories about his private interactions with people. Many of these stories are widely seen as dubious, and some of them have been shown to be lies ... The crying characters in Trump’s stories tend to share three characteristics: they are male, they are “tough” or “strong,” and they do not have names.
In January 2018, Trump told an American Farm Bureau convention that farmers had approached him crying after he signed an executive order to ease an Obama-era water regulation many farmers opposed.
Campaigning in August against Ohio’s Democratic candidate for governor, former Consumer Financial Protection Bureau chief Richard Cordray, Trump said “strong,” “tough” businesspeople had been reduced to tears by Cordray’s regulatory work.
After North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un agreed to return the remains of U.S. soldiers killed in the Korean War, Trump began claiming “People would come to me and with tears in their eyes,” he said, “and say, ‘Would it be possible to get back the remains of our father?’”
When Trump gave a July speech at a U.S. Steel plant his tariffs have helped: “We had an audience of steelworkers, some of the roughest, toughest people you’ve ever seen. And half of them had tears coming down their face,” he said the next day, though that did not happen.
Trump was asked during his 2016 campaign whether he cries himself. He said no.
“The last time I cried was when I was a baby, No, I’m not a big crier. I like to get things done.”
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