Honestly can you imagine just how horribly insecure you have to be to constantly and compulsively seek out only interactions with people that involve them praising you in comically over-the-top terms?
Even when you know that they’re doing it only because you basically bribed them to, either as in the case of the officials by giving them powerful jobs, or in the case of the crowds by promising to fulfill their most extreme racist revenge and redemption fantasies?
That’s why he confuses the hell out of everyone when he starts talking about how elite he is, how fabulously wealthy and went to the most exclusive schools, when even in the same breath he started with the assumption that elites are the enemy.
It doesn’t have to make sense, he’s just looking for some way, any way, to get lavished in praise for being smart and rich and the product of superior breeding, because only a constant diet of that will keep the deep certainty of being utterly worthless at least somewhat at bay.
Oh, that’s rich. “I like positive things.” I’ve yet to hear one positive thing or action that he has done since he took office. He doesn’t know what positive means. He is a mean, venal, amoral, hateful man.
In regard to WH correspondents’ coverage of his campaign, they loved the brash entertainer who said whatever was in the empty space that passes for his mind. Consequently, the media gave him free coverage in the amount of $5.8B billions, far more free coverage than was given to HRC. This slavish and beneficial to him coverage continues today.
All attempts should be made to broadcast the dinner on Fox State News Service as a primetime special. He cannot say no to Fox. And that entire viewership should get a load of what the world really thinks about him, and them.
Well yeah, no argument there. But they did and do that because people pay attention to it. If people stopped paying attention to it that coverage would go away very quickly and be replaced by whatever could get better numbers. What I object to is the notion that the blood-drinking corporate masters engaged in a de facto or conscious conspiracy to make Trump president and keep him president. You know, the media gave Obama a lot of positive coverage. They’re giving Beto a lot of positive coverage. So this conspiracy stuff falls down if you question it for even a moment. Superficiality, conventional wisdom, bothsiderism, normalizing, not saying “The fucking guy is nuts,” yeah, those charges stick. This one, no.
“Boring” and “negative” - yet the President will watch every minute that is broadcast. If they mention him, he’ll rage. If they don’t, he’ll rage louder.
I watch several MSNBC p.m. talkers and even on this network where distaste and disdain for the occupant is not concealed, the focus remains on PP’s latest outrage. There is full dissection of each insult he’s delivered in the course of the day as well as his motives and comparison to the Nixon admin and it ended and how this one will end… There’s almost no escape from it.
Ah yes, I’m sure it is boring. Usually he sits at the dinner table surrounded by sparkling wit and intelligent repartee as they discuss current novels and societal trends - I can see how this would be dull for him.
straight out of the republican rule book for candidates since the 80’s - and why it continues to be said instead of pointed out as ridiculous is beyond me
