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babylonsister

(171,070 posts)
Thu Jul 16, 2020, 08:11 AM Jul 2020

Team Trump Plots New Ways to Make Him Feel Good

Beyond pathetic.

https://politicalwire.com/2020/07/16/team-trump-plots-new-ways-to-make-him-feel-good/

Team Trump Plots New Ways to Make Him Feel Good
July 16, 2020 at 7:44 am EDT By Taegan Goddard


Daily Beast: “As Trump’s re-election campaign has struggled to tear down former Vice President Joe Biden with less than four months until Election Day, the president’s staff have devoted considerable resources to finding novel ways to make him feel better about the crumbling world around him.”

“They tell him tales of his sagging poll numbers being fake. They’ve concocted ways of convincing him that the adoring crowds he loves on the campaign trail are still there and ready. They’ve pledged that the social, racial, and economic crises ravaging the nation are ephemeral. And they’ve carried his water as he seeks to reassert his authority over situations falling beyond his control.”
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tanyev

(42,568 posts)
1. I don't know how he manages to find anyone willing to continue propping him up.
Thu Jul 16, 2020, 08:38 AM
Jul 2020

They're not paid that much money. He has no reciprocal sense of loyalty to them. It's bizarre.

ALBliberal

(2,342 posts)
2. This is the precise reason I want to read his niece's
Thu Jul 16, 2020, 08:59 AM
Jul 2020

book. She selves into why his associates keep propping him up.

tanyev

(42,568 posts)
3. Yes, this. I scored a position near the top of my library's hold list.
Thu Jul 16, 2020, 09:11 AM
Jul 2020

Should be able to pick it up today or tomorrow.

tinrobot

(10,903 posts)
4. That good feeling comes from within, Donnie.
Thu Jul 16, 2020, 10:04 AM
Jul 2020

Anything you find outside yourself will be fleeting. Your suffering will return.

Sigh... that dude needs a serious awakening. Call Buddha.

WyattKansas

(1,648 posts)
8. Want him to destroy himself even more with the American People?
Thu Jul 16, 2020, 10:54 AM
Jul 2020

Send suggestions explaining that the American People love it when bold decisive action is taken for them that he could make on televised briefings, like:

1) 'I had to kill off the dead weight of the population, so that the stock market could grow even stronger.'
2) 'In order to improve healthcare in this country, I had to amplify a threat and crisis to make the weak spots known.'
3) 'To pay for the tax cuts I gave the wealthy and corporations for you, I had to clear monthly benefit checks paid by the Social Security Trust Fund, so that more debt could be leveraged against it.'
4) 'In order to get rid of Obamacare once and for all, I had to destroy the healthcare system.'
5) 'There are always massive gains out of destruction, so I had to to put the United States in the best position for massive gains.'

On second thought, his adoring crowds would probably think these were all very good ideas.

Demovictory9

(32,457 posts)
9. More.from the article
Thu Jul 16, 2020, 11:05 AM
Jul 2020

According to two people who’ve been in the room when Trump has fixated on the issue, the president has repeatedly stressed that “boaters”—MAGA fans who join in on pro-Trump flotillas, with ships adorned with Trump and Mike Pence banners and gear—are a shining exemplar of the enthusiasm gap he enjoys over Biden. He has delighted in advisers showing him boater photos and videos that have bubbled up on social media. And during strategy sessions in the past two months, he’s told officials to keep bringing him more and to push out the content on their own accounts, as well.

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