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

[yortsed snacilbuper]

Trump arrives in the Oval Office these days as late as noon, when he is usually in a sour mood after his morning marathon of television.

He has been up in the White House master bedroom as early as 5 a.m. watching Fox News, then CNN, with a dollop of MSNBC thrown in for rage viewing. He makes calls with the TV on in the background, his routine since he first arrived at the White House.

The president sees few allies no matter which channel he clicks. He is angry even with Fox, an old security blanket, for not portraying him as he would like to be seen. And he makes time to watch Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s briefings from New York, closely monitoring for a sporadic compliment or snipe.

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.

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[Skittles]

1. our "president" is a pre-teen

f***

[Hekate]

2. KnR

Increasingly, before I can get to the Mute button, I find myself saying "Eat shit and die!"

[EarlG]

3. This paragraph is incredible

"But the president’s primary focus, advisers said, is assessing how his performance on the virus is measured in the news media, and the extent to which history will blame him."

That is his PRIMARY FOCUS: How he looks on TV, and whether people are going to blame him.

His PRIMARY FOCUS.

[canetoad]

6. To be fair

His primary focus is being re-elected to delay the inevitable shitstorm of indictments when he is no longer president.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

7. Those 50,000+ lives are not him, therefore they do not matter to him.

Maybe this pandemic will drive it home to all those people who still consider him human: He has as much concern as a tapeworm about anyone else's life.

[dweller]

4. lol

fuck him

no seriously FUCK HIM !

may everyday left on this Earth FUCK HIM ...

✌🏼

[niyad]

5. Hey, donie bodybags, I keep telling you that two words will free you. TWO, "I RESIGN"

I am pretty sure that the hazmat team will help you pack.

[struggle4progress]

8. "Having all these dreams about mobs with pitchforks makes me grouchy"

[TeamPooka]

9. he's a baby in a crib and they took away his mobile.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

10. Or in a condensed version of the title

A grumpy old couch potato.