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July 6 - July 7, 2019
whenever there was a disagreement or an argument, his eyes lit up. He loved conflict, chaos, and confusion; he loved seeing people argue or fight. He sat up even taller when people made a strong case when defending themselves. I adapted my boardroom strategy accordingly. Sometimes I gave backhanded compliments to my fellow contestants—and Trump would zero in on it. If I was openly critical of them, he’d smile.
The Donald Trump of 2003 was as smart and shrewd as he claimed to be.
Shrinking from conflict, in his eyes, was worse than a poor performance on the task.
I was going for strong black woman, not angry black woman.
He was suspicious of Obama’s otherness, which is an actual term in the study of “whiteness.” The otherness wasn’t just being black; it was being African. Foreign. Exotic. Other. By Barack Obama becoming president, he made Donald Trump look like a fool. Trump took it personally, that the nation chose Obama over him, even though he wasn’t running.
he would take his revenge on Obama’s humiliating him in front of all those influential people.
the only item on his to-do list would be to erase the legacy of Barack Obama by undoing his policies.
Trump was experimenting and testing the gullibility of the voting public.
Would repetition of a lie turn it into the truth?
he knew that bringing up this particular issue would appeal to a subset of the American population, the so-called forgotten man.
FDR used the radio to reach the public. JFK used television. DJT uses Twitter. He’s addicted to it because he’s a narcissist,
Donald Trump’s single greatest character flaw as a leader and human being is his complete and total lack of empathy.
“Omarosa, what do you think about me getting sworn in on The Art of the Deal?”
I’d come to understand that he read at an eighth- or ninth-grade level. That’s fine for some, but for the leader of the free world? We went from Barack Obama, a scholar, an academic, to Donald Trump, who was just this side of functionally literate.
Trump didn’t approve of her handling of his tanning bed. I’d heard he was unhappy with her efforts to procure the bed, to bring it into the East Wing securely, to find a discreet place for it, and to set it up properly. Also, apparently, Reid just hated him and didn’t hide her feelings about it.
germaphobe, I was shocked he appeared to be chewing and swallowing the paper. It must have been something very, very sensitive.
The depth and breadth of her ignorance is a travesty for the children.
Trump’s greatest character flaw is his total lack of empathy, which is itself a function of his extreme narcissism.
Trump’s mental decline was on full display during this press conference.
When he challenged the press for not reporting “accurately,” he was saying, “I’m right. You’re wrong. You’re all lying to make me look bad.” It was a terrible example of how flawed Donald’s thinking was. He was unable to see the hurt, pain, and fear his words were inflicting on the nation with his total lack of empathy.
There were some strident groups, but there was no moral equivalency between fascists and anti-fascists. He doesn’t understand that, politically and morally, they could not be put on an equal plane.
His calling black players unpatriotic was completely designed to trigger latent racial resentment in a certain population of people who were predisposed to resent wealthy black men who weren’t grateful enough about their lot in life. The sentiment could be summed up as, “Shut up and play.”
Donald had something to do with Melania’s obtaining a rare Einstein Visa, a.k.a. an EB-1, that gives immigrants with “extraordinary ability” or “sustained national and international acclaim” US citizenship.
