Wednesday, November 29, 2017 8:30:42 PM
Trump veers past guardrails, feeling impervious to the uproar he causes
"Trump’s retweets elevate a tiny fringe group of anti-Muslim activists in Britain"
The Debrief:?An occasional series offering reporters’ insights
President Trump walks across the South Lawn of the White House to board Marine One on Nov. 29, 2017, as he heads to Missouri to pitch the Republican tax plan. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
By Philip Rucker and Ashley Parker November 29 at 7:31 PM
President Trump this week disseminated on social media three inflammatory and unverified anti-Muslim videos, took glee in the firing of a news anchor for sexual harassment allegations despite facing more than a dozen of his own accusers and used a ceremony honoring Navajo war heroes to malign a senator with a derogatory nickname, “Pocahontas.”
Again and again, Trump veered far past the guardrails of presidential behavior. But despite the now-routine condemnations, the president is acting emboldened, as if he were impervious to the uproar he causes.
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Trump traveled on Wednesday to Missouri, where he pitched the tax overhaul plan. He explained that he did not mind that the bill might close loopholes for the wealthy like himself. He was talking about taxes, but he might as well been describing his overall mind-set.
“Hey, look, I’m president,” Trump said. “I don’t care. I don’t care anymore.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-veers-past-guard-rails-feeling-impervious-to-the-uproar-he-causes/2017/11/29/f96244d2-d523-11e7-b62d-d9345ced896d_story.html?utm_term=.f861e760f29a
"I'm a bull in your china shop", the president says, "and i don't give a fuck what you or anyone says about what i say, or do."
"Trump’s retweets elevate a tiny fringe group of anti-Muslim activists in Britain"
The Debrief:?An occasional series offering reporters’ insights
President Trump walks across the South Lawn of the White House to board Marine One on Nov. 29, 2017, as he heads to Missouri to pitch the Republican tax plan. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
By Philip Rucker and Ashley Parker November 29 at 7:31 PM
President Trump this week disseminated on social media three inflammatory and unverified anti-Muslim videos, took glee in the firing of a news anchor for sexual harassment allegations despite facing more than a dozen of his own accusers and used a ceremony honoring Navajo war heroes to malign a senator with a derogatory nickname, “Pocahontas.”
Again and again, Trump veered far past the guardrails of presidential behavior. But despite the now-routine condemnations, the president is acting emboldened, as if he were impervious to the uproar he causes.
[...]
Trump traveled on Wednesday to Missouri, where he pitched the tax overhaul plan. He explained that he did not mind that the bill might close loopholes for the wealthy like himself. He was talking about taxes, but he might as well been describing his overall mind-set.
“Hey, look, I’m president,” Trump said. “I don’t care. I don’t care anymore.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-veers-past-guard-rails-feeling-impervious-to-the-uproar-he-causes/2017/11/29/f96244d2-d523-11e7-b62d-d9345ced896d_story.html?utm_term=.f861e760f29a
"I'm a bull in your china shop", the president says, "and i don't give a fuck what you or anyone says about what i say, or do."
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”
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