Obvious from the beginning
Another book by another Trump ex-employee with yet more detail on what a walking pile of garbage he is.
In her book, titled “I’ll Take Your Questions Now,” [Stephanie] Grisham recalls her time working for a president she said constantly berated her and made outlandish requests, including a demand that she appear before the press corps and re-enact a certain call with the Ukrainian president that led to Mr. Trump’s (first) impeachment, an assignment she managed to avoid.
Trump of course is saying it’s all lies.
“Stephanie didn’t have what it takes and that was obvious from the beginning,” Mr. Trump said in a statement on Tuesday. He said she had become “very angry and bitter” after a breakup. “She had big problems and we felt that she should work out those problems for herself. Now, like everyone else, she gets paid by a radical left-leaning publisher to say bad and untrue things.”
It was obvious from the beginning yet he hired her and didn’t fire her. He’s so stupid, saying that about former employee after former employee without ever noticing that it shows up how stupid he is.
Ms. Grisham lands on a well-documented theme when she explores Mr. Trump’s love of dictators. But she says Mr. Trump went out of his way to please one in particular: Mr. Putin, whose cold reception of Mr. Trump, she writes, seemed to make the president want to impress him even more.
“With all the talk of sanctions against Russia for interfering in the 2016 election and for various human rights abuses, Trump told Putin, ‘Okay, I’m going to act a little tougher with you for a few minutes. But it’s for the cameras, and after they leave we’ll talk. You understand,’” Ms. Grisham writes, recalling a meeting between the two leaders during the Group of 20 summit in Osaka in 2019.
I bet Putin was super impressed by that.
There’s some waffle about how angry Melania Trump was at him, which who cares. She’s a worthless person herself.
In the end, the first lady sided with her husband, doubting the election results — “Something bad happened,” she told Ms. Grisham — and declined to invite Jill Biden, the incoming first lady, to the White House for tea.
Remember how kind the Obamas were to them? Remember how, when Trump just walked away from Melania to greet them, they went around him to rescue her from looking like the forgotten tag-along? And this is how she reciprocates. Lie down with dogs get up with fleas – she’s every inch a trump. Selfish, callous, vindictive, bad.
As she tries to please Mr. Trump, whose press coverage was relentlessly negative, she describes his anger toward her and others as “terrifying”: “When I began to see how his temper wasn’t just for shock value or the cameras,” she writes, “I began to regret my decision to go to the West Wing.”
She says one frequent target of Mr. Trump’s ire was Pat Cipollone, who served as White House counsel: “He didn’t like them telling him that things he wanted to do were unethical or illegal. So he’d scream at them. But then he’d usually listen. And then yell at them again later.”
Bad people are bad.
That’s the thing about narcissists; they’re *always* the victim, time after time. They’re the infinitely patient and generous benefactors, they’re the patient facilitators, and in the end, they’re the ones who were had and taken advantage of. It doesn’t matter how often the pattern repeats; every iteration simply reinforces their victimology, their sainthood, the glorious long-suffering perfection that their friends, colleagues, and family simply never adequately return.
It’s so nice of her to bring this out now, when she’s selling a book, rather than, oh, say two years ago, when Trump was being impeached.
Well, at least future historians will have a decent picture of what happened (if there are any historians in the future).
WaM: Hard to have much respect for ANYONE who would make the initial decision to work for that toad. It’s not like his character was hidden during his decades in the public eye.
“She’s a worthless person herself.” — But really, what reasonably intelligent, responsible, self repecting woman would have that insufferable bully, man-child dipshit? I don’t care how much money he has, any woman who would sidle up to him has serious problems. Without his inheritance, Trump would have been an utterly inconsequential nobody. Since money is not considered a redeeming quality, he simply has none. If Melania has any self respect left, she will divorce his sorry ass like his other exes did and take as big a bite as she can out of his sorry ass on her way out.
Everyone else?
But I still haven’t got my sinister right-wing religious group money for being a TERF and now I find out I’m missing out on my radical left-leaning publisher money, too!
I’d ask to speak to the manager but I probably wouldn’t get my Karening money either.
I wondered who in their right mind wanted to go to work in the Trump White House. How many of them thought that it would be a West Wing scenario for them with flawed, but earnest and hard-working people with the interest of the country at top? Imagine discovering that it was a snakepit full of people trying to hang onto their jobs by appeasing a tyrant who would undercut them at any minute, a capricious bully who was subservient to the likes of Vlad the Barechested horseman?
Michael: When “draining the swamp” means falling through the interdimensional vortex into something straight from Lovecraft?
[O]utside the ordered universe [is] that amorphous blight of nethermost confusion which blasphemes and bubbles at the center of all infinity—the boundless daemon sultan Azathoth, whose name no lips dare speak aloud, and who gnaws hungrily in inconceivable, unlighted chambers beyond time and space amidst the muffled, maddening beating of vile drums and the thin monotonous whine of accursed flutes
Trump as Azathoth, the primeval Id, the gnawing ego.
I bet zero of them thought that. West Wing is all libbruls, and Bartlett is just another candy-ass libbrul weakling. They all knew what Trump is, because he advertises it every time he opens his mouth or punches the keys.
I dunno. It was obvious from the beginning that Trump was going to be shitty president, so I guess it all works out in the end?
Not only did far too many people voted for him, far too many voted for him because he was a shitty person who hated the same people as they did, and was going to fuck them over, good and hard. For this opportunity, they were willing to ignore the undisguised contempt he held for most of his own supporters.