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Hekate

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Wed Sep 16, 2020, 08:06 PM

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I'm about half way through Woodward's book and it's clear to see why Trump kept calling Woodward [View all] Snake Plissken Sep 2020 OP

One consolation is trump sounds like a pitiful loser on the tapes when Woodard tells him it's going Hoyt Sep 2020 #1

How in the hell does anybody get to his age, wealth, & public awareness & still be so in need of napi21 Sep 2020 #2

His age increased; but not his wealth, intelect, or morality. RainCaster Sep 2020 #5

Read Mary Trump's book, or a good review of it. He's a pathetic infant inside... Hekate Sep 2020 #7

I am bdamomma Sep 2020 #17

I couldn't finish it because it was so dismal. Glad she wrote it, but I couldn't hang in that world. Squinch Sep 2020 #21

Me either Hekate Sep 2020 #24

Easy. It isn't really his wealth and America is obsessed with celebrity Caliman73 Sep 2020 #18

Don"t be so silly. Our "educational"system is perfectly designed. You cannot control a population niyad Sep 2020 #26

could you tell me what the book's title refers to Skittles Sep 2020 #3

Woodward mention to Trump that he creates a lot of rage and asked why does he think that is Snake Plissken Sep 2020 #8

OK thank you Skittles Sep 2020 #37

He also has an obsession with Obama. It isn't always overt, but subtle between the lines still_one Sep 2020 #4

Trump said Obama isn't smart and isn't a good speaker, and he was about to say someting else ...but Snake Plissken Sep 2020 #11

Yes still_one Sep 2020 #20

he knows he doesn't measure up to Obama Skittles Sep 2020 #38

Did Woodward praise him? zentrum Sep 2020 #6

Not unless it happens later, Woodward was just asking questions and Trump kept trying to impress him Snake Plissken Sep 2020 #9

I think what has helped Woodward all along is lunatica Sep 2020 #12

Right. Craves the attention. zentrum Sep 2020 #13

He's done it to a lot of Presidents. lunatica Sep 2020 #15

He knows if you ask a con man to explain something, he will be unable to say "I don't know" or ... Snake Plissken Sep 2020 #16

He said something the other night about his contacts with the CIA early on, & how he learned.... Hekate Sep 2020 #22

And he's not afraid of silence, allowing the moonscape Sep 2020 #30

You're right PatSeg Sep 2020 #31

Mahalo for that interesting analysis, lunatica. Cha Sep 2020 #36

Ah--the compulsive need to impress. zentrum Sep 2020 #14

It is more of his narcissism at work, flattered that someone of Woodward's fame Sogo Sep 2020 #25

Ya, If I were a CIA agent looking to entrap someone, Trump would have to be an easy target Beringia Sep 2020 #10

Trump is surrounded by yesmen and only does interviews with fox news jcgoldie Sep 2020 #19

True, elleng Sep 2020 #23

I've always wondered exactly they did to him. Elwood P Dowd Sep 2020 #27

'Wealthy' is all I'd say. elleng Sep 2020 #28

Yes, it is clear Trump thought he could charm Woodward, one of the investigative reporters who Nitram Sep 2020 #29

And you know, PatSeg Sep 2020 #33

This is what untreated mental illness does. It's a destroyer of lives. NoRoadUntravelled Sep 2020 #32

Exactly 👍 Duppers Sep 2020 #40

Oh JHC.. that WH is going to have to be Fumigated, Cha Sep 2020 #34

Woodward has said in interviews that this was not a formal deal Warpy Sep 2020 #35

And it's telling that he keeps falling in love with brutal males, and that he hates women except BComplex Sep 2020 #39