While talking up his Senate impeachment acquittal in the White House Thursday, President Trump went on an extended tangent about Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) that was ostensibly supposed to be a compliment. It took several strange turns.
âA lot of wives wouldnât give a damn. A lot of wives wouldâve said, âhow is he doing?â She couldnât even talk, she was inconsolable,â Trump said. âMost wives would say, ânot good, listen Iâm going home nowâ."
âAnd by âa lot of wivesâ, I mean all of mine.â
âA lot of wives wouldnât give a damn. A lot of wives wouldâve said, how is he doing? She couldnât even talk, she was inconsolable,â Trump said.
Trump went on, âA lot of my ex-wives wouldnât give a damn . . .â
Iâve heard him say this about the wife before and it was astonishing. Normal human emotions strike him as something remarkable, I think; they just seem to confound him. You add that pathology to his unbelievably lame Fifties-style lounge comic schtick, with the wives and mothers-in-law and airplane food, and itâs just this funhouse full of ideas that donât describe reality for normal people. The bogus story about Bush the Elder and the scanner here becomes a real story of a man so out of it heâs surprised and finds it exceptional that a wife would be distraught over her husbandâs near-fatal shooting. Words fail, they really do.
I keep circling back to what Michelle Obama said about the presidency revealing who people are more than shaping them. Trump is revealing himself in sickening detail nonstop now. Would be almost funny if it wasnât so scary and pathetic.
âA lot of wives wouldnât give a damn. A lot of wives wouldâve said, how is he doing? "
Like all those servicemenâs wives, and the wives of gunshot victims all across the country. Selfish hussies, the lot of them.
This is our president. On the other hand, since we have McConnell to thank for this, it is slightly comforting to know that the quote is an exact prediction of how Chao would react.