The president delights in being attacked, since it keeps the focus on him. The press should handle him like parents with an ornery child. Some of them, especially the French and the British, might be excused for excessive politeness toward a country that in many respects they still envy and admire. How can this be and what does it augur? A narcissist, while deeply self-infatuated, nevertheless seeks the approval of others and will occasionally attempt seduction to get what he wants I think of the French president, Emmanuel Macron.
How else could he tease out loud about dating his own daughter , Ivanka? How else could he so cruelly insult former president Biden in his inauguration address, with Biden seated just a short distance away?
Very confined well built building. Firemen and women did a great job. He is the president, after all, not just a coldhearted landlord. So, also, are his threats to slap high tariffs on Canada and Mexico, friendly nations that normally are happy to kowtow to their vastly more powerful neighbor no matter who occupies the White House.
But this misses the point of Trump, malevolent though he may be. He delights in being attacked because it keeps him at center stage. The backlash is more likely to be felt by liberals than by Trump, who will retreat safely to Mar-a-Lago and resume cheating at golf. I was there at the invitation of an open-minded business consultant, an unfanatical Trump partisan who may not have understood that I wanted to cover the event, though he knows the world of journalism.
It was indeed amusing to meet a guy wearing a Gen Douglas MacArthur button. And he still came back like Cincinnatus from the plough, who saved his country. Meanwhile, a lot of political prisoners would be freed, and not just the martyrs of January 6.
