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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNew book details Trump's topsy-turvy relationship with Congress
During a Republican retreat at Camp David last year, President Trump seemed particularly enthralled as Gary Cohn, then his chief economic adviser, delivered a briefing on infrastructure. The president impressed the assembled lawmakers with his apparent interest in the presentation, nodding along and scribbling furious notes.
But Trumps notes had nothing to do with infrastructure, journalists Jake Sherman and Anna Palmer write in their new book, The Hill To Die On.
Instead, Trump had scrawled Sloppy Steve atop his index card, followed by copious notes criticizing Stephen K. Bannon, his former chief strategist whom he had fired several months earlier.
As Cohn had detailed his plans to rebuild Americas roads, the president was writing down how he wanted to trash Steve Bannon the next time someone asked him about it, the authors write, in one of buzzy scenes that pepper the book.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/new-book-details-trumps-topsy-turvy-relationship-with-congress/2019/04/03/fe0725b0-54a8-11e9-814f-e2f46684196e_story.html
But Trumps notes had nothing to do with infrastructure, journalists Jake Sherman and Anna Palmer write in their new book, The Hill To Die On.
Instead, Trump had scrawled Sloppy Steve atop his index card, followed by copious notes criticizing Stephen K. Bannon, his former chief strategist whom he had fired several months earlier.
As Cohn had detailed his plans to rebuild Americas roads, the president was writing down how he wanted to trash Steve Bannon the next time someone asked him about it, the authors write, in one of buzzy scenes that pepper the book.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/new-book-details-trumps-topsy-turvy-relationship-with-congress/2019/04/03/fe0725b0-54a8-11e9-814f-e2f46684196e_story.html
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New book details Trump's topsy-turvy relationship with Congress (Original Post)
demmiblue
Apr 2019
OP
11 Bravo
(23,926 posts)1. It's the fuzzy dreamsicle's topsy-turvy relationship with reality ...
that scares the ever-loving shit out of me.
Karadeniz
(22,579 posts)2. All he cares about is how he appears, the public impression. No depth, no concern for others.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)3. He's a staunch believer in zero sum game theory.
Tho he probably has no idea of the name of the idea, which is that not only do YOU have to win, but the loser must be crushed into dust, then stomped on.
and he believes, of course, that others would do the same to him.
Kindness does not do well in that belief system.