Why Trump expected only applause when he told Comey, Youre fired.

[mcar]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/why-trump-expected-only-applause-when-he-told-comey-youre-fired/2017/05/10/b66e2b48-358f-11e7-b4ee-434b6d506b37_story.html?tid=sm_tw&utm_term=.c13291a84fcf

...For half a century, he has believed that by refusing to be weighed down by precedent or procedure, he is liberated to come across as the brash truth-teller that the public craves. He has long said that he doesn’t care whether people believe he is dumb, ill-informed or a nasty rule-breaker; if his actions built up his bottom line, they were justified, he’d say.

Trump appears to have expected that his sudden and dramatic sacking of FBI Director James B. Comey on Tuesday might be greeted the way audiences relished his ritual firings of job applicants on his hit TV show, “The Apprentice” — as a sign of power serving truth, and in this case as a politically incorrect roundhouse punch that Republicans and Democrats alike would welcome.

If the president didn’t see that his precipitous firing of the man in charge of investigating the Trump campaign’s connections with the Russian regime might instead alienate some of his allies and outrage much of the public, that’s no anomaly. Rather, it’s an illustration of several of the president’s core character traits — a belief that the past doesn’t matter, a penchant to act swiftly and unilaterally, and a conviction that even the most unpopular actions can help build his brand...

Confronted with his past statements that stand in direct conflict with his current positions, Trump has always reacted not with remorse or embarrassment. Rather, a look of almost innocent surprise sweeps over his face and he says, as he has to reporters who remind him that he once promised to release his tax returns but then decided that he never would, “Nobody cares about this except you.”

[monmouth4]

1. Schumer tried to tell him, but did he listen? Noooooo. LOL..n/t

[Lucinda]

2. We are fortunate that he, and those around him, are as stupid as they are...

He's doing damage, but it could have been much worse.

[mcar]

3. They are incompetent

That's a small consolation.

[Lucinda]

4. It's something. Their desire to damage doesn't equal their ability to achieve it, so far! n/t

[uponit7771]

5. Our president is a dumbass basically, does not look both ways before crossing the street

[Solly Mack]

6. Well, that and he's "outside the realm of normal".

[eleny]

7. Why? Because even when he flushes his toilet his lackies point, smile and cheer.