{"id":39142,"date":"2018-09-13T13:19:54","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T20:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=39142"},"modified":"2018-09-13T13:28:45","modified_gmt":"2018-09-13T20:28:45","slug":"puerto-rico-etc-the-buck-lingers-here-long-enough-for-trump-to-find-someone-else-to-blame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=39142","title":{"rendered":"Puerto Rico Etc: The Buck Lingers Here Long Enough for Trump to Find Someone Else to Blame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hurricane Florence is bearing down on the Carolinas with the anticipation of substantial damage and injury. Everyone on the ground is working furiously to mitigate the worst scenarios, but even the most cautious predictions are troubling. And while the residents of the impacted region are scrambling to secure their homes and families, Donald Trump is scrambling salve his fragile ego.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-baby-flag.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33715\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/posts\/2332568066757975\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Advs\/fb-share-tn.jpg\" width=\"274\" height=\"20\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Thursday morning, as the winds were beginning to batter the eastern coastline, Trump felt it was necessary to bang out a couple of tweets that were characteristically all about him:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">3000 people did not die in the two hurricanes that hit Puerto Rico. When I left the Island, AFTER the storm had hit, they had anywhere from 6 to 18 deaths. As time went by it did not go up by much. Then, a long time later, they started to report really large numbers, like 3000&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1040217897703026689?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 13, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8230;..This was done by the Democrats in order to make me look as bad as possible when I was successfully raising Billions of Dollars to help rebuild Puerto Rico. If a person died for any reason, like old age, just add them onto the list. Bad politics. I love Puerto Rico!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1040220855400386560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 13, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Our intellectually-challenged president is incapable of grasping the fact that any fatality that was the result of injuries or hardships caused by Hurricane Maria are attributed to it. And the estimated 3,000 deaths were calculated by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/truth-o-meter\/article\/2018\/jun\/05\/fact-checking-death-toll-estimates-hurricane-maria\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">independent researchers<\/a><\/strong> at George Washington University. The Democrats had nothing to do with it. Trump didn&#8217;t even bother to explain how Democrats could have produced casualty estimates that were accepted by the Republican governor of Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n<p>However, Trump is well known for his cowardice and pathological aversion to taking responsibility. Puerto Rico is just the latest example. But the incidents of this psychosis are numerous and easy to find. For instance:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Trump blamed his own policy of separating immigrant children from their parents on Democrats.<\/li>\n<li>Trump blamed collusion with Russia on Hillary Clinton.<\/li>\n<li>Trump Blamed his loss of the popular vote on imaginary voter fraud.<\/li>\n<li>Trump blamed President Obama&#8217;s <em>&#8220;illegitimate&#8221;<\/em> presidency on his Kenyan birth.<\/li>\n<li>Trump blamed China for starting the <em>&#8220;hoax&#8221;<\/em> of climate change.<\/li>\n<li>Trump blamed the fatalities from mass shootings on mental illness and gangs.<\/li>\n<li>Trump blamed his failure of constructing a border wall on Democratic obstruction.<\/li>\n<li>Trump blamed the <em>&#8220;pussy-grabbing&#8221;<\/em> Access Hollywood tape on <em>&#8220;tampering.&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Trump blamed his confession of obstructing justice on NBC&#8217;s Lester Holt <em>&#8220;fudging&#8221;<\/em> the tape.<\/li>\n<li>Trump blamed crime and terrorism in the U.S. on Muslims who entered the country illegally.<\/li>\n<li>Trump blamed the nation&#8217;s economic problems on foreign tariffs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Every one of those diversions are unambiguously false. And for virtually everything else that Trump wants to avoid responsibility for, he blames what he calls the <em>&#8220;fake news.&#8221;<\/em> Clearly he is fixated on identifying anyone or anything other than himself for what are his own failures. Just like he did when he was a businessman. It&#8217;s another symptom of his malignant narcissism that results in casting blame onto whatever handy victim he can stir up.<\/p>\n<p>Conversely, he takes credit for any positive events that take place during his time in office. The economy has been rising for ten years, beginning back in Obama&#8217;s first term. But Trump is not only taking credit for all of it, he&#8217;s lying about the economy collapsing when he was inaugurated (it wasn&#8217;t). He has also taken credit for being tougher on Russia than any other president (he&#8217;s not). He takes credit for saving the coal industry (he didn&#8217;t). He actually says that construction has begun on his border wall (it hasn&#8217;t). And he even tried to credit himself with rescuing the children who he ripped from the arms of their sobbing parents.<\/p>\n<p>This is the behavior of a severely disturbed person. It is someone who fits the description provided by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2018\/09\/04\/trumps-insults-idiot-woodward-806455\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">his closest associates<\/a><\/strong> in his administration. Like his former Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, who called Trump a <em>&#8220;moron.&#8221;<\/em> And his Defense Secretary, James Mattis who said Trump has <em>&#8220;the understanding of a fifth or sixth-grader.&#8221;<\/em> And his White House chief of staff, John Kelly, who called Trump an <em>&#8220;idiot.&#8221;<\/em> And his former National Security Adviser, H.R. McMaster, who said Trump was a <em>&#8220;dope&#8221;<\/em> with the intelligence of a <em>&#8220;kindergartner.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Yet, somehow, most of the Republicans in Congress (and the electorate) continue to defend and enable this dangerously psychotic pretender to leadership. It&#8217;s an abdication of their duty and patriotism. And it makes them complicit in the harm that Trump is doing to America and its future. Their slobbering infatuation with, and obedience to, the wannabe dictator Trump is as destructive as anything Trump does himself. And the sooner he&#8217;s gone, whether by election, impeachment, prosecution, or resignation, the better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hurricane Florence is bearing down on the Carolinas with the anticipation of substantial damage and injury. Everyone on the ground is working furiously to mitigate the worst scenarios, but even the most cautious predictions are troubling. And while the residents of the impacted region are scrambling to secure their homes and families, Donald Trump is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,1200,8],"tags":[554,1229,1233,1268,1255],"class_list":["post-39142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-politics","category-propaganda","tag-donald-trump","tag-hr-mcmaster","tag-james-mattis","tag-john-kelly","tag-rex-tillerson"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-baby-flag.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-abk","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":44808,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=44808","url_meta":{"origin":39142,"position":0},"title":"Happy Easter from Donald Trump During a Pandemic","author":"Mark NC","date":"4\/12\/2020","format":false,"excerpt":"On this holy day for America's Christian faithful, Donald Trump has spent the day demonstrating just how important the holiday is to him. 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