Trump has more trouble writing his own tweets now that he’s been called to account for some really unhinged ones. So it’s more interesting when he cribs from the comments of others.
He really likes retweeting praise and has never retweeted criticism. and to confuse ‘consensual’ with ‘consequential’ is a fascinating error.
In Fire and Fury, he really doesn’t care about anything, so like his view of sex, there are no consequences and everything is consensual at least from a predator’s perspective.
More interesting is his initial, unedited tweet — making errors, leaving “consensual” in, while quoting NY Post material and omitting “his missteps”. Because Trump never makes missteps.
Bannon got Stephen Miller to write the immigration EO. Miller, a fifty-five year-old trapped in a thirty-two-year-old’s body, was a former Jeff Sessions staffer brought on to the Trump campaign for his political experience. Except, other than being a dedicated far-right conservative, it was unclear what particular abilities accompanied Miller’s political views. He was supposed to be a speechwriter, but if so, he seemed restricted to bullet points and unable to construct sentences. He was supposed to be a policy adviser but knew little about policy. He was supposed to be the house intellectual but was purposely unread. He was supposed to be a communications specialist, but he antagonized almost everyone. Bannon, during the transition, sent him to the Internet to learn about and to try to draft the EO. (Fire and Fury p. 73)
In the larger media and political world, Miller—who Bannon referred to as “my typist”—was a figure of ever increasing incredulity. He could hardly be taken out in public without engaging in some screwball, if not screeching, fit of denunciation and grievance. He was the de facto crafter of policy and speeches, and yet up until now he had largely only taken dictation. (Fire and Fury p. 304)
However crazy Trump may be, in one way he is indeed the “very stable genius” he claims to be: Trump understands how to mobilize hatred and resentment to his own advantage and profit. He has risen higher than Joe McCarthy or Charles Lindbergh or Theodore Bilbo—and he has lasted already nearly a full year in office, holding the approval of one-third of the country, more than sufficient to keep him there for a full term.
Michael Wolff has done a crucial service, showing more intimately than any reporter yet the true nature of the man at the center of the American system. But without the complicity of other power-holders, Trump would drop from his central position like a tooth from a rotten gum. What we need to do now is widen the camera angle beyond Fredo Trump to the hard-faced men and women over his shoulders. Those are the people who put Trump where he is, and keep him there, corrupting the institutions of American democracy and troubling the peace and security of the world.