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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,972 posts)
Sun Aug 25, 2019, 02:22 PM Aug 2019

Trump's Cabinet can't -- or won't -- manage him

By Eugene Robinson

The Washington Post

The flood of bizarre pronouncements and behavior from President Trump is likely to get worse, I fear. He is now completely unfiltered; and, apparently, increasingly untethered to reality.

Quick, can you name the White House press secretary? Do you have any idea what she looks or sounds like? Stephanie Grisham has held that job for nearly two months now, but if her name doesn’t ring any bells, it’s because she hasn’t yet given a single official press briefing. Trump has foolishly decided to act as his own exclusive spokesman, putting all his prejudices, misconceptions, resentments, insecurities, grudges and fears on ugly display.

The result is what we witnessed Wednesday on the White House lawn. On his way to the waiting Marine One chopper, Trump paused and took questions from reporters for 35 minutes, unfazed by the midday 89-degree heat and smothering humidity. He made much news and little sense.

When he looked to the sky and proclaimed that “I am the chosen one,” he was clearly referring to his trade war with China. But you had to wonder whether his egomania, which we’re accustomed to, may have blossomed into full-scale delusions of grandeur.

https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/robinson-trumps-cabinet-cant-or-wont-manage-him/

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Trump's Cabinet can't -- or won't -- manage him (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2019 OP
"blossomed into full-scale delusions of grandeur" saidsimplesimon Aug 2019 #1
Won't. tanyev Aug 2019 #2
I love that beautiful locution, "Needy Amin." Mind if I steal it? n/t. NNadir Aug 2019 #3
Please do! tanyev Aug 2019 #4
That is why the 25th won't help us this time. BigmanPigman Aug 2019 #5

saidsimplesimon

(7,888 posts)
1. "blossomed into full-scale delusions of grandeur"
Sun Aug 25, 2019, 02:29 PM
Aug 2019

So true, makes me laugh to know those he's stepped on his way up are waiting for him on the way down. His fail and fall is in slow motion now, the spectacle fits the need for drama.

tanyev

(42,556 posts)
2. Won't.
Sun Aug 25, 2019, 02:32 PM
Aug 2019

Anyone who participates in those televised ‘meetings’ where they go around the table and all tell Needy Amin how wonderful he is, is fully complicit.

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