Donald Trump has demeaned the office of the Presidency by his refusal to take responsibility for the failed Yemen Raid that took place two days after his inauguration.
At dinner with son in law Jared Kushner and his White House Counselor Stephen Bannon, he decided to authorize a raid that the Obama Administration had been reluctant to do, because of lack of full intelligence information on the likelihood of its success.
Trump should have been in the Situation Room with top military and intelligence officials, but he decided to try to make himself a hero, and in so doing, caused the death of Navy SEAL Ryan Owens.
Instead of taking responsibility for this blunder and the death, Trump blamed the “Generals” for the failure, and lied that much intelligence information had been successfully gathered, which others, including Senator John McCain have challenged as untruthful.
And then, Trump paraded the sobbing widow of Navy SEAL Ryan Owens at the President’s Speech to Congress, and after a great salute to her by an applauding Congress, bragged that a record had been set for the longest applause ever at a Congressional session, an unseemly point to make at that point of time, and just to add to his narcissistic image. This is absolutely horrible behavior by a Commander in Chief.
Harry Truman had a sign on his desk, “The Buck Stops Here!”. Presidents do NOT blame others for their shortcomings and failures, and John F. Kennedy took the blame for the failed Bay Of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961, and Jimmy Carter took the blame for the failed attempt at a rescue of the Iranian Hostages in 1980.
It is time for Trump to stop passing the buck, and act like a President is supposed to act, stop blaming others for his failed actions!
Bernie Sanders was, and he still is, correct: Donald Trump is a pathological liar.
Why is it that Trump is this way? I don’t know if he was this way before running for president of the United States. I felt confident in having said to myself that he overdid it with his exaggerating. For example: Trump would talk up ridiculous ratings success for his NBC reality-competition series “The Apprentice.”
I believe a part of doing this is so that he exhausts fact-checkers—the ones who make their living as such and those who do not.
What this does is convince people, who do not spend time fact-checking a politician (or anyone else), that the information is accurate. This is especially the case if that politician (or anyone else) says it with confidence.
Donald Trump is full of *s*. But, most politicians are. And Trump knows this.
What it is with Trump, for how he is leading, is to get as much of his agenda advanced as he will. This is what a lot of self-identified Democratic voters do not understand about Republicans. The facts are not important with the Republican Party of this period in history. The results—getting their agenda, which is right wing (and against the people but for corporations and industries) passed—is what matters.
As one who wants a Democratic Party that is New Deal [Franklin Roosevelt] rather than New Democrat [Bill Clinton], I notice there seems to be little, if any, transformative policy coming from this Democratic Party which is actually on the left. (The Affordable Care Act, with no single payer or public option and no drug importation, was favorable for the industry and on the right.) This isn’t merely ideological. It is a sense of what is actually needed for improving the lives of the citizens and the United States overall.
What Donald Trump, in office as the nation’s 45th president, will keep doing is keep lying because, from his way of looking at politics, the fact-checkers can continue to spin around in their cages while a President Trump has his Republican Party back him and some crossover Democrats—the corporatists (who are not merely centrists but are on the right)—will give him sufficient numbers to pass his agenda. (They have already been doing it with his cabinet.)
It’s very obvious he’s been this way before running for president.
D – Trump suffers from Narcissistic Personality Disorder. http://washingtonmonthly.com/2017/02/16/trumps-mental-unfitness-on-display-at-the-press-conference/#.WKY6CRoxFnM.facebook
Trump’s tweets about Obama this morning shows he’s obviously mentally ill.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/04/politics/trump-obama-wiretap-tweet/index.html