Home Alone at the White House: A Sour President, With TV His Constant Companion

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Home Alone at the White House: A Sour President, With TV His Constant Companion
April 23, 2020

https://dnyuz.com/2020/04/23/home-alone-at-the-white-house-a-sour-president-with-tv-his-constant-companion/

WASHINGTON —

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Confined to the White House, the president is isolated from the supporters, visitors, travel and golf that once entertained him, according to more than a dozen administration officials and close advisers who spoke about Mr. Trump’s strange new life. He is tested weekly, as is Vice President Mike Pence, for Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus.

The economy — Mr. Trump’s main case for re-election — has imploded. News coverage of his handling of the coronavirus has been overwhelmingly negative as Democrats have condemned him for a lack of empathy, honesty and competence in the face of a pandemic. Even Republicans have criticized Mr. Trump’s briefings as long-winded and his rough handling of critics as unproductive.

His own internal polling shows him sliding in some swing states, a major reason he declared a temporary halt to the issuance of green cards to those outside the United States. The executive order — watered down with loopholes after an uproar from business groups — was aimed at pleasing his political base, people close to him said, and was the kind of move Mr. Trump makes when things feel out of control. Friends who have spoken to him said he seemed unsettled and worried about losing the election.

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Aides said the president’s low point was in mid-March, when Mr. Trump, who had dismissed the virus as “one person coming in from China” and no worse than the flu, saw deaths and infections from Covid-19 rising daily. Mike Lindell, a Trump donor campaign surrogate and the chief executive of MyPillow, visited the White House later that month and said the president seemed so glum that Mr. Lindell pulled out his phone to show him a text message from a Democratic-voting friend of his who thought Mr. Trump was doing a good job.

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1. Poor baby...

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2. That's too big of a violin. I wonder if he's been drinking too much bleach.

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8. Not enough.

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9. I defer to your better judgement!

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10. Plus, he should take an ammonia chaser.

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11. Jebus. Chlorine gas, a bubblehead worst nightmare. I'm an ex-bubblehead.

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12. I can imagine!

I've only been on the U-505.

[notdarkyet]

3. So when did he go to Scotland and beg for money for his golf courses? Thought it was just a

Day or so ago. Was everyone on lockdown and couldn’t meet him?

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4. I think Eric did that.

[MerryBlooms]

5. Good. Keep shoving those schwabs up his facial orafice until they bleed.

Wonder which wing the wicked witch of the west wing is inhabiting? Probably shacked up with her tennis pro in her office orifice?

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6. I think if this is "Chinese Virus" in his numb little brain, shouldn't they be using chopsticks?

[MerryBlooms]

7. Big honking giant samples! omg, as Captain Picard would order- Make it so, Number One!

[niyad]

13. Listen you treacherous bastard, TWO words will free you. TWo! They are "I RESIGN".

[Behind the Aegis]

15. THIS! THIS!! +50000

[Skittles]

14. Mr. Pillow man had to give Trump a pep-text

OMFG

[Hermit-The-Prog]

16. Hey, Li'l Donnie Dumbass! Nobody respects a LOSER and you're the world's worst, puniest LOSER.

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17. K&R

Link to tweet

[IcyPeas]

18. this stood out to me

The daily White House coronavirus task force briefing is the one portion of the day that Mr. Trump looks forward to, although even Republicans say that the two hours of political attacks, grievances and falsehoods by the president are hurting him politically.

Mr. Trump will hear none of it. Aides say he views them as prime-time shows that are the best substitute for the rallies he can no longer attend but craves.

Mr. Trump rarely attends the task force meetings that precede the briefings, and he typically does not prepare before he steps in front of the cameras. He is often seeing the final version of the day’s main talking points that aides have prepared for him for the first time although aides said he makes tweaks with a Sharpie just before he reads them live. He hastily plows through them, usually in a monotone, in order to get to the question-and-answer bullying session with reporters that he relishes.

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19. I think none of his dumber deplorables got what it takes to listen to his droning for two hours ...

I think the smarter ones in the basket are having their image of him as competent torn down in front of their eyes and by him himself. He may feel good bullying people with honest questions but some of his followers are beginning to see an arrogant bully with no plan.