{"id":33711,"date":"2017-01-29T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-29T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=33711"},"modified":"2017-01-29T07:51:56","modified_gmt":"2017-01-29T15:51:56","slug":"white-house-leaks-portray-trump-as-a-clueless-child-his-own-tweets-prove-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=33711","title":{"rendered":"White House Leaks Portray Trump As A ‘Clueless Child’ – His Own Tweets Prove It"},"content":{"rendered":"

Watch Donald Trump for any length of time and you’ll see someone who exhibits traits consistent with a juvenile ego. He is obsessed with himself and his own appearances. He cannot tolerate criticism. When challenged he lashes out with insults generally favored by eight year olds. So a column<\/a><\/strong> by Chris Cillizza in the Washington Post that reveals White House insiders characterizing Trump as a “clueless child”<\/em> may not come as a surprise. But it’s still a troubling revelation that an American president behaves this way.<\/p>\n

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Cillizza writes that:<\/p>\n

“I’ve never seen so much leaking so quickly \u2014 and with such disdain for the president \u2014 as I have in the first six days of Donald Trump’s presidency.”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Cillizza cites recent reporting that portrays Trump as lacking maturity and requiring special handling. One of the reports was from the New York Times<\/a><\/strong> and described Trump’s staff saying they:<\/p>\n

“…privately worry about his penchant for picking unnecessary fights and drifting off message. They talk about taking away his telephone or canceling his Twitter account.”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Another report was in the Washington Post<\/a><\/strong>. It noted how easily Trump falls into tantrums during which he cannot be reasoned with:<\/p>\n

“Over the objections of his aides and advisers \u2014 who urged him to focus on policy and the broader goals of his presidency \u2014 the new president issued a decree: He wanted a fiery public response, and he wanted it to come from his press secretary.”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is not the sort of measured, thoughtful behavior that is expected from a responsible leader. As Cillizza said, it reflects the temperament of “a clueless child – someone who acts on impulse. […and…] needs to be managed or else he will say and do stupid things.”<\/em> Clearly that assessment is on the nose.<\/p>\n

Trump himself, though, affirmed Cillizza’s analysis. Saturday morning he took to Twitter (again) and chewed out both the New York Times and the Washington Post. The infantile invective was pure Trump:<\/p>\n

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The failing @nytimes<\/a> has been wrong about me from the very beginning. Said I would lose the primaries, then the general election. FAKE NEWS!<\/p>\n

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 28, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n