Wow, populist?---Leaked Trump tape: 'You are the special people'

[kpete]

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Leaked Trump tape: 'You are the special people'
Exclusive audio shows how Trump lets loose at his clubs — inviting guests to join him on staff interviews
By DARREN SAMUELSOHN and ANNIE KARNI 02/18/17 08:05 AM EST

President Donald Trump, living alone inside the White House, often hungers for friendly interaction as he adjusts to the difficult work of governance. At his clubs, he finds what’s missing.

That showed last November at a cocktail and dinner reception celebrating longtime members of his Bedminster, New Jersey golf club. Deep into the process of meeting potential Cabinet nominees, the president-elect invited partygoers to stop by the next day to join the excitement.


“We’re doing a lot of interviews tomorrow — generals, dictators, we have everything,” Trump told the crowd, according to an audio tape of his closed-press remarks obtained by POLITICO from a source in the room. “You may wanna come around. It’ll be fun. We’re really working tomorrow. We have meetings every 15, 20 minutes with different people that will form our government."

"We’re going to be interviewing everybody — Treasury, we’re going to be interviewing Secretary of State,” he continued. “We have everybody coming in — if you want to come around, it’s going to be unbelievable….so you might want to come along.”

As he prepares to spend the third straight weekend at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, the tape provides a window into how Trump conducts himself away from the prying press and among the loyal faces of his club.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/trump-leaked-audio-clubs-guests-235161

[OldHippieChick]

1. Dear God

This is worse than the 47% in so many ways

[milestogo]

2. What an asshole.

[TrekLuver]

3. He better watch out....he's libel to get himself killed.

[oberliner]

4. His supporters don't care

It's amazing. I think he was absolutely right when he said he could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and still would not lose any supporters. These people will stay with him no matter what, and will explain away any criticism.

[bigtree]

5. this is absolutely demeaning to our process of government

...to have it offered up to whoever pays admission to his club.

Now we know why he's returning there for the third weekend in a row. He's getting high showing off his new title to people who he believes once considered him beneath them. It's the only place, outside of the WH, where he can throw his weight around like a tin-pot dictator.

[tanyev]

6. Has to have an audience.

I would really love to see a huge gathering of protesters at one of his events holding signs, but standing there silently. I think it would really freak him out. He somehow feeds off crowd energy, whether jeering or adoring. But a huge crowd in front of him, not reacting to him at all?

[nikibatts]

7. Is that tape real? The photo is dated November 18, 2016. Was the meeting held then?

[get the red out]

8. He was interviewing dictators?

Or were some of them guests for the interviews too?