President Trump, Melting Under Criticism - by the NYT Editorial Board
Maybe we should all take a moment to feel a little sorry for Donald Trump, who reacted to criticism on Thursday by tweeting a stream of coarse insults at the television journalist Mika Brzezinski.
After all, he so clearly lacks the toughness of George Washington, who once privately observed that his critics arrows
never can reach the most vulnerable part of me. He lacks the confidence of Dwight Eisenhower, who said, when asked if he thought his press coverage was fair, Well, when you come down to it, I dont see what a reporter could do much to a president, do you?
And are we really about to write this sentence? Mr. Trump lacks the grace Richard Nixon showed, at least in public. At the height of Watergate in late 1973, Mr. Nixon blurted at a news conference, I have never heard or seen such outrageous, vicious, distorted reporting in 27 years of public life. Yet he added, I am not blaming anybody for that. Perhaps what happened is that what we did brought it about.
Mr. Trump may be a more tender soul, or less resilient. In any case, he cant seem to take the heat.
Probably no one in the world draws as much scrutiny and criticism even mockery as an American president, and each president understandably chafes. But for Mr. Trump, every barb seems to hit home, and he vengefully attacks his tormentors in full view of the world.
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greatauntoftriplets
(175,729 posts)Useless waste of oxygen.
Gothmog
(144,919 posts)dalton99a
(81,391 posts)Martin Eden
(12,844 posts)He is also a sociopath and a pathological liar.
All of this should be clearly evident to anyone paying attention.
What's really crazy is that so many think this man should be president.
oxbow
(2,034 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,565 posts)I wish someone would throw water on him and make it happen faster.