And he needed to address those problems in a way that would avoid panicking people.
Seriously, it’s going to take a LOT of time (years!) and a LOT of work for a future administration to repair the damage (what damage can be repaired), and we will certainly want to have a thread where we follow the progress of that. It’s going to be a big thread.
Let’s not kid ourselves… This is going to take multiple administrations to fix. It a lot harder to build things than it is to tear them down, after all. And unless the opposition has a sudden attack of morality, they will be busy shaking the scaffolding while we try to fix it, slowing down progress even more.
So that will DEFINITELY be a mega-thread.
Is there another thread around here, where we are specifically discussing Trump’s interviews with Woodward?
I’m still trying to figure out: Why in the world did Trump admit all those things he admitted to Woodward, apparently in interviews over a period of several months? Why to Woodward in particular? Even if he didn’t know about Woodward and Nixon, he must certainly know (?) that Woodward is an op-edder for the Fake News Lamestream Bezos Amazon Washington Post, mustn’t he? Why did Trump ever choose to even talk to Woodward?
Most likely because Woodward is famous. And popular. That’s all Trump needs to know, I suppose.
I agree. And I do remember that when the early book came out, Trump complained to Woodward, not for the revelations; but because he felt sour that Woodward had not interviewed him. He must had thought that if that had taken place he would had countered a lot of what was revealed. So he must had asked Woodward for the interviews for a future book.
Trump was never careful about what he wishes. He got it.
That’s easy - Loser Donald believes that he can bullshit anyone and that his inherent greatness is so self-evident that anyone who’s honest with themselves has no choice but to acknowledge it. He told Woodward these things because he thought it would impress him and convince him that he’s a great leader who wanted to reassure the American people in a time of crisis.
You have to act within your skill set however. Lying is the one thing DT is good at (at least the one thing he does a lot). Evidence of competent leadership is thin to non-existent (he didn’t fuck up the Israel-UAE agreement, so he gets a point there).
So well said!
Excellent!
(“lying evil bastard”).
Five? Try forty-five. (At least New Yorkers have known this, since the Central Park Five ad.)
Here’s a choice piece of news that has been overshadowed by the Woodward tapes:
see also
I meant thirty-five.
He just can’t kill us all fast enough.
I’ll give you the royalties when I sell this quote on a bumper sticker - I promise.
Sometimes there’s a method to Trump’s madness; other times, it’s just sheer madness.
I imagine that his aides, not to mention Repubs on the Hill, are starting to pull whatever hairs they have left, out.
I want the GOP HQ booze and antacid concessions.
There was a recent CNN article about this (sorry no link) that basically matches what the posters above said. Most of Trumps advisors thought the interviews were a bad idea, but Trump insisted. He wanted to do it because an interview by Woodward is something that all recent presidents have done and it proves that you are the real deal (sort of like getting your face on the cover of Time). Also he thought he could charm Woodward just like he did tabloid journalists back when he was a player in New York.
Is this the article, Buck_Godot? It’s a pretty good assessment of how trump’s overweening narcissism led him to think he could talk Woodward into writing a favorable book, even after the ‘Fear’ book had come out in 2018. To quote Bugs Bunny, what a maroon!
That’s it. I just haven’t mastered copying links on my tablet