Trump got lost in self-pity on Saturday night as he whined that all people ever want to talk about is Russia.
Trump tweeted:
Great jobs numbers and finally, after many years, rising wages- and nobody even talks about them. Only Russia, Russia, Russia, despite the fact that, after a year of looking, there is No Collusion!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 4, 2018
The president then tried to boost his own spirits by quoting a The Wall Street Journal editorial from Friday:
“The four page memo released Friday reports the disturbing fact about how the FBI and FISA appear to have been used to influence the 2016 election and its aftermath….The FBI failed to inform the FISA court that the Clinton campaign had funded the dossier….the FBI became….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 4, 2018
…a tool of anti-Trump political actors. This is unacceptable in a democracy and ought to alarm anyone who wants the FBI to be a nonpartisan enforcer of the law….The FBI wasn’t straight with Congress, as it hid most of these facts from investigators.” Wall Street Journal
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 4, 2018
Trump is having a mental health crisis over the Russia scandal
One can read and listen to Trump’s public statements and see a president whose mental state is struggling under the weight of the Russia scandal. Trump never had a reputation for being stable by anyone’s definition, so when you add a presidency crushing scandal to an emotionally volatile president, the result is volcanic mood swings.
Trump swings from denial to unjustified overconfidence to self-pity on a dime.
Trump is his own worst enemy on the Russia scandal
If he wants people to stop talking about the Russia scandal, he could help himself by not talking about it all of the time. The memo is a perfect example how Trump’s lack of discipline and insecure need to be defended are sabotaging the White House’s message. Trump can’t stay on topic. Any other president would ignore the Russia investigation and push their agenda.
Trump has no agenda, so his presidency consists of wild swings from one self-created crisis to another.
Donald Trump is why the Russia scandal is all anyone wants to talk about.
The Russia scandal is his own fault, and he only has himself to blame for his flailing presidency, but self-pity, not self-responsibility is Trump’s thing, so expect the president cry into his pillow while shooting himself in the foot on the Russia scandal for as long as he is in office.
Awards and Professional Memberships
Member of the Society of Professional Journalists and The American Political Science Association
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