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struggle4progress

(118,236 posts)
Sat Jul 1, 2017, 03:01 AM Jul 2017

Is this it?

By Kathleen Parker
June 30 at 7:51 PM

... For months during the early part of Trump’s campaign, “MoJo” .. was a welcome station for the celebrity firing squad. Around Washington, people had begun referring to the morning manfest .. as “Morning Trump.” This was also the period when then-candidate Trump constantly bragged that he hadn’t spent any money on advertising — and no one wondered why. He regularly called in to the show .. running his campaign from Trump Tower.

... When your strength is branding and your name is the brand, there’s little challenge to getting airtime. Cable television anchors and producers not only became Trump’s unpaid marketers but also bear some of the responsibility/blame for Trump’s election. Then ... Trump won. Then Trump became even odder than usual, even according to his friends and others inclined to like him ...

... he’s so thin-skinned, such a political amateur — and so utterly lacking in the fine art of disregard — that he can’t let anything pass. This is the single greatest concern for the witted, not his idiotic tweets in the night. Impulsivity combined with narcissistic injury is a red flag to many for the man with access to the nuclear codes ...

... Nothing will happen until GOP constituents start shouting and, remember, these are the same people Trump has taught to hate the media ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/is-this-it-for-trump/2017/06/30/0c07f754-5dd2-11e7-a9f6-7c3296387341_story.html?utm_term=.22b4a095415a

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