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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/trump-angry-isolated-charlottesville-falloutBy CAITLIN MACNEAL Published AUGUST 17, 2017 10:13 AM
As President Donald Trump has dug his feet in following his initial failure to fully denounce white nationalists after a car attack in Charlottesville, Virginia, Trump has been acting out of anger and has become increasingly isolated in the White House this week.
After his initial statement failed to offer a full-throated condemnation of white nationalist and other hate groups, Trump was pressured by his aides to follow up with a more forceful statement. But after doing so, the President became angry and suspicious about attempts to control his messaging, prompting him to follow up with an impromptu news conference Tuesday that went off the rails when he blamed both sides for the violence in Charlottesville, Politico reported.
Trump felt vindicated following that presser, according to the Washington Post.
The Presidents anger over the past few days has been apparent. As business leaders fled White House advisory panels over Trumps Charlottesville response, Trump responded by abruptly announcing on Twitter that the jobs panels would be disbanded. This came only after he personally attacked the first CEO to quit his manufacturing council, and threatened that he could easily replace any other CEOs who quit the panels.
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Trump Increasingly Angry, Isolated Amid Fallout From Charlottesville Response - TPM (Original Post)
NRaleighLiberal
Aug 2017
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Siwsan
(26,315 posts)1. He's starting to remind me of an even more unhinged Captain Queeg
Although I have yet to move past my Caligula/Nero comparisons.
Aristus
(66,509 posts)4. At least Queeg, and this is pointed out in the play, served his country
without recognition, without medals, without ticker-tape parades and "Support Our Troops" rallies.
Greenwald has the line: "No man who rises to the command of a Navy destroyer could possibly be a coward. And if he commits questionable acts under fire, the answer must lie elsewhere."
Queeg wasn't the monster that Trump is...
BeyondGeography
(39,393 posts)2. He could always get a hug from David Duke
SweetieD
(1,660 posts)3. Isolated and angry is his MO anyway. How many times have we read this. I don't believe he is angry
at all. I think he is amused by all of it. He loves that he has neo nazi followers who dress like him. He is a narcissist. If it were antifa dressing like him, he would be on antifas side. He has no thoughts for anyone other than himself. He loves all attention even negative attention.
FSogol
(45,579 posts)5. Awesome. Step up the criticism everyone.
Gothmog
(145,794 posts)6. Trump is isolated because he is an idiot