He needs constant supervision
Trump’s people have to manage him as if he were a particularly volatile four-year-old. That’s not news, but it’s easy to lose sight of how extremely bizarre it is.
The in-person touch is also important to keeping Trump from running too hot. One Trump associate said it’s important to show Trump deference and offer him praise and respect, as that will lead him to more often listen. And If Trump becomes obsessed with a grudge, aides need to try and change the subject, friends say. Leaving him alone for several hours can prove damaging, because he consumes too much television and gripes to people outside the White House.
Part of the current problem is Trump is still adjusting to his new circumstances and has plenty of time to stew over negative reviews as he spends time alone in the evenings and early mornings as his wife, Melania Trump, continues living in New York as his youngest son, Barron, finishes the school year.
That alone time played a factor in Trump’s response to revelations that his Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch, had — days after Trump attacked whom he labeled a “so-called” judge for blocking his administration’s travel ban — criticized attacks on the judiciary.
White House officials anticipated that Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch would distance himself from Trump’s attack and thought the planned comments would help the nominee’s bid, said a person with knowledge of the conversations.
The problem: Trump himself didn’t like Gorsuch’s “disheartening” and “demoralizing” critique. He fired off a tweet criticizing Sen. Richard Blumenthal, the Connecticut Democrat who repeated the comments, digging up a controversy over the senator’s military record and accusing him of incorrectly characterizing Gorsuch’s comments. Afterward, Blumenthal and other Democrats criticized Trump and said the president’s comments would hurt his nominee’s chances.
He can’t be left alone, even for a few hours.
Puppy trainers would recommend crating him overnight.
Perhaps I’m being a literary-Nazi here, but I really do think that they could have found a substitute for the word “as” at least once.
As for hurting Gorsuch’s chances, I wish the Dem’s would show that kind of backbone regarding his views on the role of the judiciary and on Roe v Wade (which he has said very little about).
And it’s interesting that he is the son of Anne Gorsuch Burford, who was EPA administrator during the Reagan years and was deeply enmeshed in a scandal involving that agency that ended in her resignation and the jailing of one of her aides. Corruption loves corruption, right? (Not that I think the sins of the mother should be visited on the son, but it is an interesting connection).
If I recall correctly, doesn’t one hypothesis regarding authoritarianism see the Leader as a father figure? How can someone so childish ever be considered a father figure? Of course, Hitler was far from the Aryan ideal and Trump’s wealth puts him out of “common man” territory. Wealth and success are unfortunately taken as markers of talent , ability and competence. Go figure.
If the “team” is clever enough to schedule childcare and companions and little play dates for Trump, why aren’t they clever and patriotic enough to just say it out loud – he should not be president, he is incapable, and he is dangerous. . .
Claire Ramsey, why don’t they say it out loud? What, and lose their own seats on the gravy train? Most of them are so incompetent they wouldn’t be in smelling distance of their current jobs without Trump so if he goes, they won’t be far behind.
The Self Preservation Society is now the US Government.
It’s a Good Life – The Twilight Zone
Man. If Melania’s absence is really that big a deal in making him unsoothed (which I doubt, I think it’s just that he’s getting a lot more direct scrutiny) can you imagine what a time-and-a-half job she has when he’s in the same house?
I mean, I know she’s getting combat pay and then some, but still. Jeeebus.
Oh, I’ve tried imagining that, believe me, and instantly flinched away from the horror.