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So all these leaks are a result of dt's 'team' being unable to communicate with him like a normal person. This is not normal.
Trumpism is all tantrums, all the time
By Eugene Robinson
Opinion writer February 6 at 7:30 PM
No one should have been surprised when President Trump raged that the so-called judge who blocked his travel ban should be blamed if something happens. It is clear by now that the leader of the free world has the emotional maturity of a 2-year-old who kicks, punches and holds his breath when he cant have ice cream.
He dismisses anything he doesnt want to hear as fake news, which is the equivalent of holding his hands over his ears. A poll showing that most people disapprove of the ban? Photographic evidence that the crowd for his inauguration was less than historic? Fake! All fake!
Trumps supporters may convince themselves that the tantrums are part of a clever act. But if they were, Trumps closest aides wouldnt be leaking like walking colanders to what he calls the dishonest media. It appears they cant get the president to sit for a briefing or read a memo, so they send messages to him via the newspaper stories that are clipped for him to read and the cable channels he obsessively watches.
Trumps temperament is at least an issue and potentially a crisis, not just for the nation but also for the world. In one of his introductory phone calls with foreign leaders, he even managed to ruffle feathers with Australia, which is a hard thing to do. What kind of leader accuses one of our most steadfast allies of trying to send the next Boston bombers to the United States? A leader utterly lacking in self-control, apparently.
I realize there is some method to go along with all the madness. I understand that Trump wants to be disruptive and has disdain for traditional norms. I know he believes he has a mandate to radically change U.S. immigration policy, defend what he sees as Western values and project his vision of American strength.
But how does feuding with Australia further those ends? What rational purpose is served by lashing out at a federal judge for fulfilling his constitutional role? Why did he spend his first week in office trying to deny the fact that his inaugural crowd, while of quite respectable size, was much smaller than either of President Barack Obamas?
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trumpism-is-all-tantrums-all-the-time/2017/02/06/a6f50360-eca3-11e6-9662-6eedf1627882_story.html?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.d52ff52df94d
bdamomma
(63,799 posts)SamKnause
(13,088 posts)Fuck Republicans !!!!!!!!!!
They are EVIL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SammyWinstonJack
(44,129 posts)ProudProgressiveNow
(6,129 posts)retrowire
(10,345 posts)I hate absolutist statements sorry lol
get the red out
(13,460 posts)His supporters also equate his tantrums with strength and toughness.
Cha
(296,853 posts)After LIES After LIES After More LIES.
dalton99a
(81,404 posts)Grins
(7,199 posts)If a medium-sized company had Trump as a CEO who showed the same arrogance and erratic behavior, they would call a meeting of the board of directors and - REMOVE HIM - from his position! Fast!
ginnyinWI
(17,276 posts)I get WaPo editorials in my email every morning (it is free) and they are the first thing I turn to when I sit down at the computer with my coffee. This one hit the spot!
FSogol
(45,448 posts)ailsagirl
(22,885 posts)Count on it
mnhtnbb
(31,374 posts)"The next four years promise to be a history lesson in the sort of thing that caused American democracy to be born."
Please. Please, not four years. Trump has gotta' go sooner than that and I don't care how. Just please get him the hell out
of the Oval Office.
Maeve
(42,271 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)But wow, the comments are just brutal toward the White House. One idiot tried to stick up for President Trump, but got swatted around pretty good.