"Leaving him alone can prove damaging": Staffers warn Trump needs constant praise and limit on TV

[Miles Archer]

‘Leaving him alone can prove damaging’: Staffers warn Trump needs constant praise and limit on TV



http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/leaving-him-alone-can-prove-damaging-staffers-warn-trump-needs-constant-praise-and-limit-on-tv/

Campaign staffers told Politico in a report published on Wednesday that the president requires constant praise and a limit on media consumption.

“If candidate Trump was upset about unfair coverage, it was productive to show him that he was getting fair coverage from outlets that were persuadable,” former communications director Sam Nunberg explained. “I would assume the president would like see positive and preferential treatment from those outlets and that would help the operation overall.”

To curb his urge to tweet, campaign officials said that they showed Trump positive coverage from friendly outlets like Breitbart, Fox News, the Daily Caller and the conspiracy theory website Infowars.

“He saw there was activity so he didn’t feel like he had to respond,” one former campaign official pointed out. “He sends out these tweets when he feels like people aren’t responding enough for him.”

[JHB]

1. Prima Donnie demands "Applause" sign always turned "on"

Maybe they should pipe in clapping, as a sort of muzak num-num for Kremlin Don, keep him from getting all fidgety.

[charlyvi]

12. Do they clap for him when he goes potty on the big boy chair?

He's such a big boy!

[JHB]

13. He doesn't use the big-boy chair. Why should he, when...

...he can keep using his familiar, reassuring Tremendous Stupendous Amazing Guy chair, complete with as-wiping flunky, and still get applause?

[leftynyc]

2. Could be the most pathetic

thing I've ever read about degenerate donnie. Just how small is his dick (for all those who want to accuse me of being a sexist, don't bother, I don't care)?

[guillaumeb]

4. Not sexist at all. He is pathetic.

[randr]

3. My guess is that his behavior is getting worse

And the deterioration of his mental health is well known to family. I doubt that he has any friends who are close enough to tell him the truth. Those surrounding him are merely taking advantage of a dotering old man for what they can gain.
Pence in just waiting it out.

[Wellstone ruled]

6. Seems to be the program.

With each passing day you see the anger coming closer to the surface.

[janterry]

10. I can't forgive them

I see his children and think - they are a true disgrace. To know what he is about and to continue to help prop him up - it's just unthinkable. They are complicit in all of this...........

[Chemisse]

20. I agree. It was unconscionable for them to unleash him on this country.

Everybody who voted for him is also to blame. It was all too obvious what kind of person he was, and what kind of president he would be.

[NastyRiffraff]

29. They are indeed

The only one in that disfunctional family I feel sympathy for is Barron. Poor kid, he always looks overwhelmed.

[oasis]

37. Obey or get written out of the will. nt

[Miles Archer]

17. It is getting worse, because...

1). He is literally getting away with anything (like a $3 million trip to Florida every weekend at taxpayers' expense).

2). He has communicated in as direct a manner as possible that his staff agree with him and back him to the hilt or they're out

3). He said he was going to do the "rallies" after the Inauguration, and he is, and it just feeds the tragic need for attention and approval.

In short, everyone within spitting distance is indulging his slightest whim.

[pangaia]

28. The 'government' need to refuse to pay for his campaign trips.

[Crash2Parties]

32. Now that's scary. When Pence is in, he'll ouster Bannon. The WH will seem slightly more sane.

Still Christian extremist cruel to women & LGBT people, still pro-theocracy, still pro-privatization, still pro-white, but less volatile, maybe?

[NewJeffCT]

34. if Trump is ousted

Pence will be a wounded duck. While he's probably more extreme than Trump and has actual convictions, Pence is also not the media magnet that Trump is - instead of the media focusing on his latest tweet or outrageous statement, they'll focus on Pence's deplorable policies.

[meow2u3]

38. The real reason his behavior is getting worse

He's being told no for the first time in his misbegotten life and he's used to not taking no for an answer. He can't stand it when the targets of his bullying push back and stand up to him.

[Initech]

5. So to extrapolate, his campaign staffers are his babysitters.

Yeah that's what we've come to - we elected a guy who's 70 going on 2.

[surrealAmerican]

7. These staffers are part of the problem.

Trump is lead to think that these sources are reputable and representative of what the other sources are saying.

[MrScorpio]

8. Wow.

FDT anyway.

[NotThisTime]

9. Like a fussy baby you have to feed crumbs too while you're on the phone....

Except in charge of a country... no problem....

[Ilsa]

11. And that's why they are running another survey about

Media being their enemy.

[smirkymonkey]

14. God what an embarrassment!

One thing I don't get Why is he always displaying his hands and talking with his hands when he knows full well how much people make fun of them? It seems like someone who is always trying to hide his bald spot would keep his hands out of view as much as possible.

[salin]

15. "Honey, can you peek into the room? It's been too quiet a little too long...

just check on what he is up to."

Great. WH staff now need to babysit the President, and make sure his ego-feeding is adequate.

[Waldorf_]

16. Guess they need to turn on the parental controls on all the tv's to block the unwanted channels.

[Vinca]

18. This person is absolutely, positively, mentally unfit for the job.

How long before his handlers forget to check on him and he pitches a fit and destroys a country? Maybe they could find a gold lame straitjacket for him to wear when they're out of the room. Anything to keep him away from the codes.

[Miles Archer]

19. From The New Yorker

[gratuitous]

21. If only there had been some warning

Oh well, our great nation will just have to endure. Winners win, losers shut up and go home. Thank you, Republican party.

[Miles Archer]

24. I think the moment where it kicked in for me...

...even though I knew who Trump is and what he is...was the "I'll keep you in suspense" moment.

That was the moment where he announced to the world (to paraphrase the late, great Paul Kantner in his Jefferson Starship song Stairway to Cleveland), "Fuck you...I do what i want."

I never bought the "He'll change if he's elected" tripe, but after he made that remark, I basically expected exactly what we have right now.

[KewlKat]

22. amendment 25

[KittyWampus]

23. is it someone's job to check to see if he pooped his diapers too? jeez.

[Miles Archer]

25. Conan O'Brien provides the answer to your question

I recommend watching the whole clip because it's funny as hell, but the exchange I am specifically referring to comes in around the 2 minute mark:

[NewJeffCT]

35. LOL

Jared, come in here & clean this up...

[Hamlette]

26. The Dunning-Kruger effect writ large.

"a cognitive bias in which low-ability individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their ability as much higher than it really is . . .

for a given skill, incompetent people will:

fail to recognize their own lack of skill
fail to recognize the extent of their inadequacy
fail to accurately gauge skill in others
recognize and acknowledge their own lack of skill only after they are exposed to training for that skill [ed/ too late for Trump on this one] . . .

If you're incompetent, you can't know you’re incompetent.… [T]he skills you need to produce a right answer are exactly the skills you need to recognize what a right answer is." (wiki)

[Zambero]

27. Sounds like therapy for an unruly dog

Would Trump take to chewing up the White House furniture if his Tweet-a-phone was confiscated?

[Rex]

30. Wow look at that face! That is the face of a man that KNOWS, KNOWS I say

that everyone around him is smarter than he is! That, for the first time in his life, he is realizing just how stupid and incompetent he is at everything he does. That his Tower that once looked like a forbidding sentry, now looks like a pile of shit stacked high.

That is the face of a man that has come into the reality that he is a loser extraordinaire and it only took winning a rigged election to show how much smarter the folks are around him. How they have much better ideas and look better than he does - always the angry cheap business suit.

Trump knows he is and acts and looks like a cheap business suit. He really knows it now working around true professionals.

When they pander and baby him, he knows it - he just doesn't know how to express his self loathing any other way than to take it out on the most vulnerable around them.

That is the face of a L O S E R and one that knows it!



OSER!

[Mc Mike]

31. Put him in a crib with an I-Pod mobile above it.

Have each Pod tuned to a different pro-dRumpf nazi source, Fox, Breitbart, bircher Jones, political cesspool, daily stormer, etc.

Maybe that will help widdle drumpfie get sleepy enough to take his nap.

[DallasNE]

33. But Those "Friendly Outlets" Were The Very Outlets

Spreading the fake news so no wonder he was constantly caught spreading lies.

[raging moderate]

36. Trump reminds me of "Born Yesterday."

That old movie starring Judy Holliday, which I think was made in the early 50s. This crude gangster type arrives in Washington DC with lots of ill-gotten money, ready to take over the government. His gang moll, played by Judy Holliday, has come out of a poverty-stricken childhood but is not really dumb, as she proves when a crusading young reporter gives her a fast education in history and civics. It is a great movie, and very pertinent to our day.

[JawJaw]

39. Thanks for the recommendation.

Watching it now!

[JawJaw]

40. OMG

This guy IS Trump, isn't he?

[raging moderate]

41. Yeah, although the movie character HAS come out of poverty.

Harsh struggle, arduous labor, school of hard knocks, etc. Still, as the storyline implies, even that does not excuse his villainy.

[Honeycombe8]

42. That's pathetic. Like most dictators...he needs constant adulation. nt

[bdamomma]

43. 45 is a sick man

and has issues, always looking for love in the wrong places.