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StrictlyRockers

(3,855 posts)
Tue Sep 1, 2020, 02:58 PM Sep 2020

Trump is surrounded by "Yes men" who never tell him he's wrong.

Narcissists love to be told that they're right, and hate to be told that they're wrong. If left unchecked, this creates a climate where no one dares to correct bad information or unhinged opinions based on bad info.

Trump is surrounded by "Yes men" who never tell him he's wrong.


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Trump is surrounded by "Yes men" who never tell him he's wrong. (Original Post) StrictlyRockers Sep 2020 OP
He surrounds himself with yes men (and yes women). subterranean Sep 2020 #1
and yet every morning DerTrumpenfuhrer has his little yes men lined up for a pat on the cheek Baclava Sep 2020 #2
Your Point Assumes That... ProfessorGAC Sep 2020 #3
We use to call them spineless cowards? pwb Sep 2020 #4

subterranean

(3,427 posts)
1. He surrounds himself with yes men (and yes women).
Tue Sep 1, 2020, 04:34 PM
Sep 2020

Anyone who disagrees with him or questions his "wisdom" soon finds themselves out of a job.

 

Baclava

(12,047 posts)
2. and yet every morning DerTrumpenfuhrer has his little yes men lined up for a pat on the cheek
Tue Sep 1, 2020, 04:40 PM
Sep 2020

Like a shaky handed, drugged up Hitler, sending his last fanatical defenders out to save his imaginary world, they smile and worship him

ProfessorGAC

(64,854 posts)
3. Your Point Assumes That...
Tue Sep 1, 2020, 04:45 PM
Sep 2020

...there are people in the inner circle that know what's right.
They may he "yessers", but it may be that they have no real ideas so what's correct or incorrect escapes them.
Or, they lack a moral compass that tells the what's right or wrong.

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