George Conway: Trump will never be able to accept that the presidency doesn't belong to him

[Zorro]

Among Donald Trump’s many flaws as president is one that’s as fundamental as any: He simply doesn’t understand his job. When he ran a private company, one he owned, Trump could command all its constituent parts to do his bidding and make the rules himself. You’d think by his fourth year in the White House, he would have learned that the presidency doesn’t work that way. But obviously he hasn’t.

Trump made this clear during his briefing Monday, with an extraordinary series of statements about presidential power — well, perhaps extraordinary for anyone but him. Referring to restrictions that states have imposed to fight covid-19, Trump claimed: “The authority of the president of the United States having to do with the subject we’re talking about, the authority is total, and that’s the way it’s got to be. … It’s total. The governors know that.”

In other words, he claims the power to force the entire country to back to work, regardless of what state or local officials say. “They can’t do anything without the approval of the president of the United States,” Trump asserted. “I have the ultimate authority,” he said.

“Who told you that?” a reporter asked; Trump wouldn’t say. And no doubt, couldn’t: No competent presidential adviser would tell him that. Certainly no lawyer.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/14/george-conway-trump-will-never-be-able-accept-that-presidency-doesnt-belong-him/

[Harker]

1. Probably George's moron wife

told him that.

[nykym]

2. Instead of asking tRUMP

who told you that, reporters should ask pence or any other person at the presser.
"Did you tell him that he has total power"?

[machoneman]

3. Hey, who was the balsy reporter who saids "who told you that?" I'd like to know.

Anybody?

[Skittles]

7. male body parts are not required for courage

indeed, the women reporters have been more impressive

[Thomas Hurt]

4. Wouldn't any malignant narcissist think that once he won the office...

He thinks he is the state, he thinks the treasury is his personal bank account, he thinks he is King.

He is just trying to figure out how he can expand his ability to use the gov't for his personal whims.

That big gov't swamp is coming between him and his ascension to Putinhood.

Has been since the inauguration.

[BComplex]

5. Oh yes, a lawyer did tell him that.

Bill Barr! At least, Barr has pushed that narrative that nobody can go against the president long enough that trump made some serious assumptions about it.

[elleng]

6. 'He simply doesn't understand his job.'