Trump lies continuously but he also makes mistakes: Getting something wrong out of ignorance, rather than stating a deliberate lie. Including Alabama in his tweet about Dorian was a mistake. No-one thought it was a lie. In fact, issuing the warning & promising federal aid to states in the path of Dorian was arguably well-intentioned.
Everything Trump does is to feed his ego. So, here’s the irony: If Trump had followed up with a “Whoops, you’re off the hook, Alabama, lucky for you” correction of his mistake, no-one would have given the issue another thought. In fact, his effort to be inclusive in his warning & his offer of federal help to all states that might be in the path of Dorian, & a quick, humorous retraction of accidentally including an extra state in the warning, would have made him go UP in people’s esteem. Instead, he demonstrated that he has no understanding of what really feeds one’s self-esteem by making himself look ridiculous with his Sharpie & his threats to fire NOAA personnel if they didn’t back him up. That demonstrates how fundamentally backarsewards he is in his understanding of what would truly feed his ego. He lives to feed his ego, but he’s clueless about how to do it. What a sad, pathetic excuse for a man.
Trump lies continuously but he also makes mistakes: Getting something wrong out of ignorance, rather than stating a deliberate lie. Including Alabama in his tweet about Dorian was a mistake. No-one thought it was a lie. In fact, issuing the warning & promising federal aid to states in the path of Dorian was arguably well-intentioned.
Everything Trump does is to feed his ego. So, here’s the irony: If Trump had followed up with a “Whoops, you’re off the hook, Alabama, lucky for you” correction of his mistake, no-one would have given the issue another thought. In fact, his effort to be inclusive in his warning & his offer of federal help to all states that might be in the path of Dorian, & a quick, humorous retraction of accidentally including an extra state in the warning, would have made him go UP in people’s esteem. Instead, he demonstrated that he has no understanding of what really feeds one’s self-esteem by making himself look ridiculous with his Sharpie & his threats to fire NOAA personnel if they didn’t back him up. That demonstrates how fundamentally backarsewards he is in his understanding of what would truly feed his ego. He lives to feed his ego, but he’s clueless about how to do it. What a sad, pathetic excuse for a man.