Like so many of these pieces, Trump wants to be about the outrage, hoping it might appear like some bombastic leadership, but as his life-story has shown, it’s always more about the ideological contradictions, lying naked and naked lies.
In Michael Wolff’s book, the flaws of the Trumpian mythology could be balanced by some actual skill in governing or policy, but “nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public”. Trump was the candidate of the reactionary moment for racial and gender animus from the griftable deplorables. No one ever accused the GOP of putting up thoughtful candidates.
As we’ve discovered, Trump leads by negation and absence, making us wonder yet again why and how Hillary lost, even as Lord Dampnut never wanted to win.
9. The book says top Trump aides questioned his intelligence in colorful terms. The revelations follow reports that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called Trump a "moron" last year.
"For Steve Mnuchin and Reince Priebus, he was an 'idiot.' For Gary Cohn, he was 'dumb as sh-t.' For H.R. McMaster he was a 'dope.' The list went on."
"It's worse than you can imagine. An idiot surrounded by clowns. Trump won't read anything - not one-page memos, not the brief policy papers; nothing. He gets up halfway through meetings with world leaders because he is bored. And his staff is no better. Kushner is an entitled baby who knows nothing. Bannon is an arrogant prick who thinks he's smarter than he is. Trump is less a person than a collection of terrible traits. No one will survive the first year but his family. I hate the work, but feel I need to stay because I'm the only person there with a clue what he's doing. The reason so few jobs have been filled is that they only accept people who pass ridiculous purity tests, even for midlevel policy-making jobs where the people will never see the light of day. I am in a constant state of shock and horror."
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