WH-insider: Trump feels unappreciated. "This isn't what he signed up for."

[LiberalLovinLug]

65. Exactly

But he is too stupid I now realize. Stupider than I thought. I really thought he was savy enough that his primary persona was just mostly an act to energize his base. And that once he won, he'd then have to put on another act. Like his acting he did on his show where he pretends to make a thoughtful decision, weighing the bad and good qualities of his contestants. (Even though we now know it was staged and decided by the producers)

But he keeps showing us that he can't even understand where he is, and that the primaries and the general elections are over. That the polls now are taken not from the Republican base, but from the entire country, Republicans, Independents, Democrats, and a lot of folks that did not even vote. Its telling when you hear his post Charlottesville statements. So many Republican pundits shaking their heads on TV about how this was a perfect set up, a no brainer. To go out and make a forceful statement against bigotry, racism, and all the organizations that promote it. And that that is not what America is about. (Even if privately he's a flaming racist) He may have even gotten Van Jones or others considered more liberal in the media to call him "Presidential" again.

He could have taken advantage of his position as an "outsider". As someone who decried the paralysis in Washington. He could have ordered, in public, Republicans to work with Democrats (As some are now doing on their own) to keep but help improve the ACA, instead of just throwing the baby out with the bathwater, and thinking it'll be "so easy" to create a new baby. At least after the first efforts failed.