For 20 minutes last night, Americans watched Donald Trump speak, “drenched in panic as he tried to bully an entire nation into admitting he’s doing a great job,” Tom Nichols argues. theatln.tc/mMLIpITq
“We could take apart Trump’s fake facts, as checkers and pundits will do in the next few days. But perhaps more important than false statements—which for Trump are par for the course—was his demeanor,” Nichols continues. “He vented his hurt feelings without a molecule of empathy or awareness.”
The president’s speech “contained no news, other than an example of his contempt for the U.S. military, whose loyalty he thinks he can purchase with a onetime $1,776 bonus check,” Nichols writes. “This is projection: Trump has shown his willingness to be bought off with gold bars and trinkets, and he may think that the men and women of the armed forces are people of equally low character.”
In effect, “Trump took to the airwaves, pointed his finger, and said: ‘Quiet, piggy,’” Nichols argues. “Even by Trump’s standards, this was an unnerving display of fear.”
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For 20 minutes last night, Americans watched Donald Trump speak, “drenched in panic as he tried to bully an entire nation into admitting he’s doing a great job,” Tom Nichols argues. theatln.tc/mMLIpITq
“We could take apart Trump’s fake facts, as checkers and pundits will do in the next few days. But perhaps more important than false statements—which for Trump are par for the course—was his demeanor,” Nichols continues. “He vented his hurt feelings without a molecule of empathy or awareness.”
The president’s speech “contained no news, other than an example of his contempt for the U.S. military, whose loyalty he thinks he can purchase with a onetime $1,776 bonus check,” Nichols writes. “This is projection: Trump has shown his willingness to be bought off with gold bars and trinkets, and he may think that the men and women of the armed forces are people of equally low character.”
In effect, “Trump took to the airwaves, pointed his finger, and said: ‘Quiet, piggy,’” Nichols argues. “Even by Trump’s standards, this was an unnerving display of fear.”
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