Our favorite NYT reporter throws more cover for Trump

[RandySF]

Link to tweet

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[underpants]

1. Uh huh. So he no longer the master of branding?

[dalton99a]

2. They should give the Trump spinmeister her own office in the White House.

[gratuitous]

3. He "still has not adjusted"?

Do we have any estimate on when Trump will get used to the idea that he's the President of the United States, and that a certain level of decorum is required of him, and that yeah, he gets credit and blame for things he had nothing to do with? Can someone tell him to grow the fuck up?

[dalton99a]

5. +1. "He's new to government. He's just new to this." - Paul Ryan

[muriel_volestrangler]

18. They've been telling him to grow up since they sent him at 13 to a special school

to try and reform his bad character. It didn't work. It won't, 60 years later.

Before military school, Trump was famous for breaking the rules. Long before buildings would be named after him, schoolmates used the Trump name as shorthand for getting into trouble.
...
So right before eighth grade, Trump's father sent him literally up the river to New York Military Academy in the Hudson Valley. Trump would spend the next five years there.
...
"I put [him] down at the end of the hall. He didn't know how to make a bed. He didn't know how to shine his shoes. He had a problem, you know, with being a cadet. You know, being a cadet, you gotta take care of yourself," Dobias said.
...
"I don't think he had a handful of loyalists, you know?" Levine, his former roommate, said. "Because he was so competitive that everybody who could come close to him he had to destroy."

https://www.npr.org/2015/11/10/455331251/this-is-where-donald-trump-played-by-the-rules-and-learned-to-beat-the-game

[genxlib]

4. Wouldn't it just be easier to say

He has no idea how to be President. Not policy. Not behavior. Not demeanor. Nothing

[librechik]

6. Trump's cognitive ticket has been punched.

This is terrifying.

[rufus dog]

7. Is that actually any better?

So her defense is that he can’t manage any variables yet should be given the tough job of President?

[brooklynite]

8. Haberman just called Trump a Narcissist. What's your complaint?

[Wounded Bear]

9. Gotta love how he excludes them from the photo op...

then complains about their coverage of him.

Yeah, no double standard there.

[IADEMO2004]

10. Maggie, if you bend over backward far enough for him your head goes up your ass.

Is it dark up there now?

[NRaleighLiberal]

11. She is so transparently trading decency for access...queen of apologists

Master of both sides do it bullshit....and just one more part of the problem. Shameless.

[dalton99a]

17. +1. And Trump will insult her once in a while to pretend there is an adversarial relationship

and she will point to it as objective evidence

[NRaleighLiberal]

19. GMTA

[jrthin]

12. This paper should have been out of business after the Judith Miller fiasco.

IMHO, it's long past it's due date.

[dalton99a]

13. All the Trump Apologia That's Fit to Print

[jrthin]

15. You're spot on! nt

[bullwinkle428]

14. Chump's stenographer.

[matt819]

16. She has in the past

But in this and another tweet i saw earlier, she has done anything but cover for him.

[tanyev]

20. He is never, ever going to 'adjust', Maggie.

He is incapable of adjusting. There is no part of him that wants to even try to adjust. What accounts for your inability to understand that, Maggie?