Thinks hes under attack. Thats dangerous.
By Eugene Robinson
May 18 at 8:20 PM
President Trump believes he is being persecuted, and that is a frighteningly dangerous mind-set for a man with such vast power ...
The tone of the White House reaction was widely praised on the cable news shows that Trump is said to watch obsessively. But the effect, if any, of such positive reinforcement was evanescent. It lasted only until Trump took to Twitter on Thursday morning ...
... how Trump really took the news about Mueller’s appointment: not well at all. The idea that he would be treated poorly, compared with the way other presidents were treated, seems to trigger an atavistic response ... as if he went to a fancy restaurant and was shown to a table in a cramped corner ...
... Trump remains president. He has access to the nation’s most closely held secrets but cannot be trusted to safeguard them. He runs the White House like a family business, valuing loyalty over experience or expertise. He has no real grasp of policy, foreign or domestic. He feels himself under attack. Four months into his term, he brags to White House visitors about how he won the election. And there’s not another one until 2020 ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-thinks-hes-under-attack-thats-very-dangerous/2017/05/18/e7af59e6-3bf9-11e7-a058-ddbb23c75d82_story.html
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