President Donald J. Trump begins the general public parts of his Cupboard conferences by going across the desk having the entire Cupboard members reward Trump to the heavens.
How embarrassing.
Embarrassing for Trump, who’s so insecure that he insists that others publicly reward him. But additionally embarrassing for the members of the Cupboard, who’ve chosen to publicly debase themselves for the possibility to carry energy (and, for these named Vance and Rubio, the potential of holding but extra energy sooner or later).
I’ve attended an terrible lot of conferences with highly effective individuals in my life — CEOs, managing companions, and the like. Not one has insisted on beginning with reward of the boss earlier than transferring on to the remainder of the agenda. Actually, in the event you’d tried to begin a presentation by flattering the boss, most bosses would have shut you up. Those that didn’t shut you up would have merely fired you.
That doesn’t imply people don’t suck as much as the boss. After all they do. People flatter the boss in personal. They chuckle at his or her jokes. They keep on the firm vacation get together till 5 minutes after the boss leaves. However no boss insists on reverential reward in public.
Besides Trump.
What a tragic, pathetic little man.
Overseas leaders have realized this lesson. Reward Trump publicly, and maybe he’ll deal with you higher. Heads of state throughout Europe now play this disgraceful, however efficient recreation.
Maria Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition chief who gained the Nobel Peace Prize, just lately gave her prize to Trump. She accompanied that present, naturally, with flattery. If you happen to’d like Trump’s assist to put in you because the chief of Venezuela, flatter the person.
An individual with a shred of dignity would have refused to simply accept Machado’s prize.
Not our man.
I checked the feedback on Breitbart to see what the Trump morons loyalists had been saying about Machado’s presentation. The loyalists determine Machado was honest: “She stated nice issues about Trump. It was touching. He should be a terrific man, and she or he sees it.”
Did these commenters miss the way in which Cupboard conferences begin? What’s your clarification for that? Simply coincidence?
Trump is just not nice. He’s a tragic, pathetic little man.
John McCain was captured in Vietnam after which declined an early launch from jail as a result of he feared the North Vietnamese would use his launch to attain public relations factors. Personal Bone Spurs didn’t like McCain.
Bone Spurs stated he likes the blokes who don’t get captured.
Like himself, perhaps. Keep away from the draft; keep away from the chance of seize.
Trump is aware of what an actual hero is, and he is aware of that he doesn’t appear like one. That’s what actually bothers Trump about McCain.
Guys who died on the seashores of Normandy had been “suckers and losers.”
Proper. I can see Trump going over the facet of a Higgins boat on June 6, 1944, into freezing water, within the face of enemy fireplace, at Normandy Seaside.
Wait — my aching bone spurs!
Solely as soon as in historical past — within the aftermath of 9/11 — has any member of NATO invoked Article 5, which says that an assault on one NATO member will probably be deemed an assault on all. Our NATO allies heeded the USA’ name to responsibility. These allies paid a worth for his or her loyalty. Of the roughly 3,500 service members from NATO international locations who had been killed in Afghanistan, about 1,000 had been from international locations apart from the USA. However final week Trump stated of these 1,000 lifeless that the U.S. by no means “needed them.” Based on Trump, “they’ll say they despatched some troops to Afghanistan or this or that. They usually did. They stayed a bit again, little off the entrance strains.”
Inform that to the grieving little kids, you unhappy, pathetic little man.
On the evening earlier than D-Day, Common Dwight D. Eisenhower wrote a letter within the occasion that the Normandy invasion failed. He praised the troops and took all of the blame for the failure.
When President Donald Trump was requested if he took duty for the issues with COVID testing, he heroically responded, “No. I don’t take duty in any respect.”
After all not.
You unhappy, pathetic little man.
What president — certainly, what particular person — would give guests free admission to nationwide parks on their birthday, submit insulting plaques about former presidents on the partitions of the White Home, or put their title earlier than that of the assassinated John F. Kennedy on the facade of the Kennedy Heart?
Sure, sure: The solutions to these, and all the opposite, questions are the identical:
A tragic, pathetic little man.
Mark Herrmann spent 17 years as a companion at a number one worldwide legislation agency and later oversaw litigation, compliance and employment issues at a big worldwide firm. He’s the creator of The Curmudgeon’s Guide to Practicing Law and Drug and Device Product Liability Litigation Strategy (affiliate hyperlinks). You’ll be able to attain him by e mail at [email protected].
