They won’t let him drive
Reuters talked to Donnie and found out that he wants his old life back. We want that for you, Donnie! Do feel free to resign.
He misses driving, feels as if he is in a cocoon, and is surprised how hard his new job is.
President Donald Trump on Thursday reflected on his first 100 days in office with a wistful look at his life before the White House.
“I loved my previous life. I had so many things going,” Trump told Reuters in an interview. “This is more work than in my previous life. I thought it would be easier.”
He thought it would be easier. He thought it would be easier. Oh my god.
More than five months after his victory and two days shy of the 100-day mark of his presidency, the election is still on Trump’s mind. Midway through a discussion about Chinese President Xi Jinping, the president paused to hand out copies of what he said were the latest figures from the 2016 electoral map.
“Here, you can take that, that’s the final map of the numbers,” the Republican president said from his desk in the Oval Office, handing out maps of the United States with areas he won marked in red. “It’s pretty good, right? The red is obviously us.”
He had copies for each of the three Reuters reporters in the room.
He won. He was voted prom king. He won he won he won. Little Donnie from Queens who got no respect – he won. Sadly, that meant he had to work much harder than he wanted to, but still – he won, he won, he won. Make enough copies for every single reporter.
Trump, who said he was accustomed to not having privacy in his “old life,” expressed surprise at how little he had now. And he made clear he was still getting used to having 24-hour Secret Service protection and its accompanying constraints.
“You’re really into your own little cocoon, because you have such massive protection that you really can’t go anywhere,” he said.
Yes, it sounds absolutely horrible. But surely he was aware of that before he decided to campaign for the job?
Ah well, he has his final map of the numbers to cheer him up.
Do you think he realises when he’s saying things out loud?
It’s impossible not to compare Trump with Obama. The people, not their administrations.
Both like occasionally to show they have a playful side, for example.
Trump gets in a truck, beeps the horn and yells incoherently.
Obama goes on Mythbusters resulting in a bunch of kids participating in an experiment.
Obama shows fatherly affection for his daughters.
Trump suggests he’d like to f*** his daughter.
So…. when Trump was criticizing Obama’s occasional golf outings, Trump thought the job was easy and not a lot of work. Now that he knows how hard the job is, he…. golfs even more than Obama did.
I mean, it’s not like the hypocrisy surprises me any more, but it’s still remarkable.
@Screechy, it’s not just that he seems totally incapable of introspection, looking inside himself, but he also seems to be totally incapable of even trying to see himself “from the outside” – as others see him, or as he sees others. Kind of like the fundamental attribution error, but moreso.
It’s not like he does it badly, or can’t do it at all, it’s more like he doesn’t even realise that it’s a thing that could possibly be done.
I’m seriously questioning whether Theory of Mind is applicable to Trump.
Karellen @5,
Right. Take, for example, his statement about how he thought that once he won, everybody would be nice to him.
I can’t think of any plausible reason for him to lie about that. It makes him come off as naive at best. And it does fit with his general craving for approval. So presumably he truly believed that people are nice to Presidents, and is genuinely surprised that it hasn’t proven to be so.
And yet, he knows that he himself was one of many people who noisily and repeatedly criticized Obama, even though Obama won two elections. So how can he possibly hold that belief? I guess you could explain it as “Obama wasn’t a real president, because… well, you know…” but I think in this instance it’s just that it doesn’t even occur to him that the situations are analogous.
Rob – well he clearly has little or none. That’s pretty normal for narcissists isn’t it?
Ophelia, it’s also normal for planarians. But I don’t think Trumps really a planarian. Those are pretty cute, actually.
…Trump’s really a planarian. Damn those apostrophe errors!
Screechy Monkey #7 wrote:
If I had to guess, I’d say Trump thought of himself and his criticism as “special.” That’s what he kept hearing from his fan base. He was brave, daring, and unique, an iconoclast and outsider who wasn’t afraid to buck the system, say truth to power, and “tell it like it is.” Presidents aren’t used to that. Everyone in politics flatters them. But finally Trump was giving voice to the American people — who up till now had been ignored.
It’s hard to know what’s going on in Trump’s head, but if a popular (or populist) narrative feeds his ego, it’s probably his default.
Theory checks out pretty good so far — Trump is mindless. Up to now anyway, he seems able to breathe without constant support — unless evidence appears that some (alien) agent is supplying aid.
#1
Do you think he realises when he’s saying things out loud?
That made my night. I predicted, and still hope a realistic outcome of my prediction, that this presidency takes years if not a decade from Trump. Imagine if he really cared about this job. He would die from massive cardiac failure knowing he has no capacity to perform any redeemable actions that support the job he should undertake.