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“They’re inept, they’re idiotic, they’re a bunch of scientists,” Meadows told people in the White House
His entire approach as a politician was about feeding them the red meat that would keep them energized and angry at whoever was the enemy of the day.
Trump asserted that “laziness is a trait in Blacks” and complained about an African American accountant. “Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day.”
he understood that Trump was a bully, surrounded by other bullies like Meadows.
family. Trump did not want to run against Democratic policies. He wanted to run against a person, to rip him down, to insult, belittle, and degrade him.
Mike Pence had not explicitly told the president to abandon his pointless quest. That was not how Pence worked. Even now, he and others were still humoring Trump.
And he was the first president since Herbert Hoover to lose the White House, the House, and the Senate in just four years. As Trump himself might put it, he was not just a loser, but a big loser.
