Does Trump Want to Fight for a Second Term? His Self-Sabotage Worries Aides

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Advisers and allies say the president’s repeated acts of self-destruction have significantly damaged his re-election prospects, and yet he appears mostly unable, or unwilling, to curtail them.

By Maggie Haberman and Annie Karni

June 17, 2020
Updated 8:05 p.m. ET

In a recent meeting with his top political advisers, President Trump was impatient as they warned him that he was on a path to defeat in November if he continued his incendiary behavior in public and on Twitter.

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Mr. Trump pushed back against his aides. “I have to be myself,” he replied, according to three people familiar with the meeting. A few hours later, he posted on Twitter a letter from his former personal lawyer describing some of the protesters as “terrorists.”

In those moments, and in repeated ones since then, the president’s customary defiance has been suffused with a heightened sense of agitation as he confronts a series of external crises he has failed to contain, or has exacerbated, according to people close to him. They say his repeated acts of political self-sabotage — a widely denounced photo-op at a church for which peaceful protesters were forcibly removed, a threat to use the American military to quell protests — have significantly damaged his re-election prospects, and yet he appears mostly unable, or unwilling, to curtail them.

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With the Russia investigation and impeachment, White House officials and others said, Mr. Trump was eager to fight, and did so fairly effectively. Now, they see his behavior as self-defeating, and his bursts of both anger and self-praise as futile against an invisible enemy like the virus and a protest movement he’s shown little sympathy for.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/17/us/politics/trump-2020-election.html

[dawg day]

1. I think he has reason to believe that nothing he can do bad is bad enough to bother his cultists

He has gotten away with everything so far.

However, perhaps a combo of:
Covid
Protests
Bolton's book
His niece's book

will do what impeachment and pssy-grab talk and porn star revelations didn't do.

I think the country is very very tired of him. I hope it's not just our part of the country that feels that way, but some of his voters too-- aren't they exhausted trying to defend him?

[LizBeth]

2. He is just stupid as most of his supporters.

[Thomas Hurt]

3. He wants people to recognize him and applaud him...

if you won't do that, he wants to bully, intimidate people, attack people cause he gets his jollies controlling and manipulating people.

If you have a personal relationship with him it is magnified. He expects to be blindly followed and catered to, if you don't you are a traitor and should have your career destroyed.

That is why there is a huge list of corrupt a holes he found brought into fold and those who disappointed make the huge turnover in his admin. He doesn't care they were liars, corrupt, degenerate gamblers, only that they embarrassed, dissed him or failed to do what he wanted.

See, Comey, Sessions, the disgraced cabinet members and the incompetents he installed as apparatchiks.

[underpants]

6. He also has no respect for the Office

Everything is about him. Every single thing.

Those task force pressers were a disaster. His real self came out. It’s amazing that the impeachment isn’t even discussed.

If you want a date (after the impeachment) when the wheels started falling off - Feb. 5, 2020. State of the Union.

[underpants]

4. He can't stomach losing but my wife and were talking about this tonight

Haberman huh? She definitely has inside info on the WH.

Leaks? This whole place has been one big leak. Three people on that one conversation talked to The Times? How hard could it be to figure out who that was?

People going on record is even worse for him.

[RainCaster]

5. Suicide would be a great option for him

Nobody could do it as good as tRump.

People would be talking about it for decades.

There would be 10x more people watching him than were at Obama's inauguration.

[Thomas Hurt]

7. The only thing that would cause the Pig to off himself was if he suddenly became unknown overnight.

Fame, infamy are interchangeable. Indifference would destroy him.