Inside the Trump White House

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National Review/The Corner:

Jonah Goldberg

January 24, 2017

 

The Washington Post has an entertaining article on the state of things in the Trump White House. A few thoughts related to or inspired by it:

 

1. This passage is getting the most attention:

 

Trump has been resentful, even furious, at what he views as the media’s failure to reflect the magnitude of his achievements, and he feels demoralized that the public’s perception of his presidency so far does not necessarily align with his own sense of accomplishment.

This does not bode well, given that this is supposed to be the president’s honeymoon. Trump’s unalloyed craving for respect is precisely why it is often most elusive. If he stuck to most of the stuff he did yesterday — meeting with business leaders, signing executive orders — he’d get more respect and support. But, as we saw at the CIA over the weekend (not to mention reports he told people on the Hill that he would have won the popular vote if not for millions of illegal voters), Trump has to try to lead the witnesses, to plead his own case that he deserves more respect than he thinks he’s getting and as result, it slips through his fingers.

 

2. Then there’s this:

 

(Snip)

 

3. Finally, any hope — or fears — that there will be a “new” presidential or pivoted Donald Trump should be laid to rest. For good or ill, or rather for good and ill, the man we’ve seen all this time is the man we got.

 

 

 

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Bear in mind this comes from the Washington Post. A news Room not exactly strewn with I Trump posters. Still.....