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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums260,000 Words, Full of Self-Praise, From Trump on the Virus
The New York Times analyzed every word Mr. Trump spoke at his White House briefings and other presidential remarks on the virus more than 260,000 words from March 9, when the outbreak began leading to widespread disruptions in daily life, through mid-April. The transcripts show striking patterns and repetitions in the messages he has conveyed, revealing a display of presidential hubris and self-pity unlike anything historians say they have seen before.
By far the most recurring utterances from Mr. Trump in the briefings are self-congratulations, roughly 600 of them, which are often predicated on exaggerations and falsehoods. He does credit others (more than 360 times) for their work, but he also blames others (more than 110 times) for inadequacies in the state and federal response.
Mr. Trumps attempts to display empathy or appeal to national unity (about 160 instances) amount to only a quarter of the number of times he complimented himself or a top member of his team.
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260,000 Words, Full of Self-Praise, From Trump on the Virus (Original Post)
SoonerPride
Apr 2020
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dalton99a
(81,391 posts)1. Unlike anything historians say they have seen before
At his White House news briefing on the coronavirus on March 19, President Trump offered high praise for the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, Stephen Hahn. Hes worked, like, probably as hard or harder than anybody, Mr. Trump said. Then he corrected himself: Other than maybe Mike Pence or me.
On March 27, Mr. Trump boasted about marshaling federal resources to fight the virus, ignoring his early failures and smearing previous administrations. Nobody has done anything like weve been able to do, he claimed. And everything I took over was a mess. It was a broken country in so many ways. In so many ways.
And on April 13, Mr. Trump insisted that governors were so satisfied with his performance they hadnt asked for anything on a recent conference call. There wasnt even a statement of like, We think you should do this or that, he said. I heard it was, like, just a perfect phone call.
The self-regard, the credit-taking, the audacious rewriting of recent history to cast himself as the hero of the pandemic rather than the president who was slow to respond: Such have been the defining features of Mr. Trumps use of the bully pulpit during the coronavirus outbreak.
The New York Times analyzed every word Mr. Trump spoke at his White House briefings and other presidential remarks on the virus more than 260,000 words from March 9, when the outbreak began leading to widespread disruptions in daily life, through mid-April. The transcripts show striking patterns and repetitions in the messages he has conveyed, revealing a display of presidential hubris and self-pity unlike anything historians say they have seen before.
By far the most recurring utterances from Mr. Trump in the briefings are self-congratulations, roughly 600 of them, which are often predicated on exaggerations and falsehoods. He does credit others (more than 360 times) for their work, but he also blames others (more than 110 times) for inadequacies in the state and federal response.
On March 27, Mr. Trump boasted about marshaling federal resources to fight the virus, ignoring his early failures and smearing previous administrations. Nobody has done anything like weve been able to do, he claimed. And everything I took over was a mess. It was a broken country in so many ways. In so many ways.
And on April 13, Mr. Trump insisted that governors were so satisfied with his performance they hadnt asked for anything on a recent conference call. There wasnt even a statement of like, We think you should do this or that, he said. I heard it was, like, just a perfect phone call.
The self-regard, the credit-taking, the audacious rewriting of recent history to cast himself as the hero of the pandemic rather than the president who was slow to respond: Such have been the defining features of Mr. Trumps use of the bully pulpit during the coronavirus outbreak.
The New York Times analyzed every word Mr. Trump spoke at his White House briefings and other presidential remarks on the virus more than 260,000 words from March 9, when the outbreak began leading to widespread disruptions in daily life, through mid-April. The transcripts show striking patterns and repetitions in the messages he has conveyed, revealing a display of presidential hubris and self-pity unlike anything historians say they have seen before.
By far the most recurring utterances from Mr. Trump in the briefings are self-congratulations, roughly 600 of them, which are often predicated on exaggerations and falsehoods. He does credit others (more than 360 times) for their work, but he also blames others (more than 110 times) for inadequacies in the state and federal response.