JFC, what are you doing WaPo? "What if Trump's pile of papers is nothing more than a prop?"

[Nevilledog]

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Brit Hume
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Aug 31, 2022
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What if Trump’s pile of papers is nothing more than a prop?

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Opinion | That time I had a close-up view of Trump’s paper fetish
It was 2016. We were on Trump’s private plane. Before him: a mountain of paper, topped with waffle fries.

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This is the dumbest thing I've ever read in a public outlet, and that's saying a lot.
3:42 PM · Aug 31, 2022

Story is at the link


No paywall
https://archive.ph/AtC53

[OAITW r.2.0]

1. Well, it's an Op piece.

Was the argument worth a place on their page? Probably not.

[MerryHolidays]

2. Brit Hume...enough said. nt

[Hermit-The-Prog]

3. He lost credibility even before he left ABC.

[Nevilledog]

4. It's written by David Von Drehle

But Brit certainly supports it....

[JHB]

7. Hume is focusing on one aspect the same way the GOP focusing on the TIME cover...

...in that photograph was "one aspect".

In other words, "technically true, but to focus on it is to dodge far more serious matters".

[gratuitous]

5. So if the papers are not a prop . . .

Does the nincompoop who wrote this drivel favor prosecution to the fullest of the law? Or did he run out of room before he could consider that question?

[JHB]

6. I'm curious as to why WaPo changed the headline (hint: they didn't). I posted it earlier today...

Several times, in fact:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217102786#post6

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217099415#post23

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217103052#post6

At the time I made those posts, the headline was That time I had a close-up view of Trump’s paper fetish. I'd copied it right off the WaPo page. Oh, wait! That's still the headline. Gosh, maybe Shitty Britty has a shit take on it.

It was part of an answer to "Why did he hold on to all those boxes of paper? Why not just make copies?" The "why" of it was that having stacks of important papers is part of Trump's Big Show, one of his physical props to display to one and all how busy and important he is.

Objectively, Trump didn't need to keep hardcopies around for however he capitalizes on them, but that's only part of it. Pathetic little Donnie needs trophies of how great he is.

That and "biggest security breach in US history" are not mutually exclusive. Both can be true.

[stopdiggin]

8. +1. thank you.

That and "biggest security breach in US history" are not mutually exclusive. Both can be true.

Was there some ulterior motive - profit motive, power motive? - involved in this 'hoarding?' Perhaps. But I don't think we can discount that Trump did childish, temperamental, vindictive, stupid, spiteful, and just plain shitty stuff - virtual every day of his adult life. And public record tells us that he was, if anything, worse when he was in the WH (and was wearing his emperor's cloak).

Does that excuse the blatant misuse of sensitive and dangerous information. By no means. Hang him out to dry! But let's also remember the DJT was, and is, the very tiniest of human beings. Ruled by the basest of impulse and motivation. People keep saying, "there had to have been a reason." With Trump - sometime the 'reason' was just - Trump - being his usual a*hole self.

[Nevilledog]

9. Publications often use more than one headline

This is from the archived page. Click the link I provided

[JHB]

10. Then my question stands without the "hint" part.

(I'd actually edited that part in because some links showed me the original headline and I thought I'd read something wrong.)

What's behind the change in headline that allows for the shit take on it?

The meat of it doesn't support Shit Broom's tweet on it, so why the change from clearly disparaging Donnie to the smokescreen wording?

[Nevilledog]

12. I think the article supports the idea that trump kept documents around him for non-nefarious reasons

I guess I didn't see it as disparaging as you did.


I don't have a clue why they do that with the headlines. I remember one in the past that they got pushback on until they changed it.

It's like one is more click bait than the other.

[lindysalsagal]

11. Even if these boxes were his toys, as he played potus, they

Told him to return them, so he's still guilty on all 3 accusations. It means he was so obsessed with his potus-play, he just couldn't stop playing, even under threat of prison. Our mistake was seeing him as a competent adult. He's a big, fat, stupid toddler.