Very rough
Hoo-boy. Trump changed his mind about having a tantrum at the NY Times, and they had their meeting after all.
(What can it be like having a meeting with him? A giant petulant baby with way too much power? It must be such a bizarre experience.)
The strained relationship between Donald J. Trump and The New York Times took an odd path on Tuesday when a planned meeting between the president-elect and the newspaper was abruptly canceled by Mr. Trump and then quickly rescheduled.
After a morning of back-and-forth statements and Twitter posts, Mr. Trump arrived at midday for a meeting with Times representatives at the paper’s Midtown headquarters. Seated next to the publisher, Arthur Sulzberger Jr., in the paper’s Churchill Room, he said he had great respect for the paper but thought its treatment of him had been “very rough.”
God he’s stupid. The Times is not there to write daily panegyrics to unqualified ignorant billionaire candidates for president. That’s not their job.
He added that he hoped he and the paper could improve their relationship.
No, that’s not how that works. You don’t have a “relationship.” You can’t make the Times be your besty.
Three people with knowledge of Mr. Trump’s initial decision to cancel the meeting said that Reince Priebus, the incoming White House chief of staff, had been among those urging the president-elect to cancel it, because he would face questions he might not be prepared to answer. It was Mr. Priebus who relayed to Mr. Trump, erroneously, that The Times had changed the conditions of the meeting, believing it would result in a cancellation, these people said.
Ah look at that. because he would face questions he might not be prepared to answer. Of course he fucking would! He will always face questions he certainly won’t be prepared to answer, because he’s ignorant and incurious and thick as a brick. He can’t refuse to talk to us because he’s too ignorant and thick to answer questions relevant to the job he campaigned to get. It doesn’t work like that.
Reading those tweets – the answers are simplistic, I see nothing resembling a thoughtful answer, it’s more like…I don’t know. A man who hasn’t thought much through, from the sound of it.
Hold up your hands if you think Trump can make peace here where so many have failed….anybody? I’m waiting.
Holy shit.
But this is not about Trump but the son-in-law, who must obviously possess an impressive diplomatic agility. :p
I sometimes get the impression that Trump thinks a lot more of his son-in-law than his sons. Probably fair enough from what I’ve seen. Plus they have something in common, they both think Ivanka is a piece of ass… shudder.
Sure, Rrr, but an earlier comment to this one (or later; I may have been reading them in reverse order) had him proclaiming that he (not Jared, but he) would do this.
Because he is so much more diplomatic than Jimmy Carter? More likeable than Ronald Reagan? More unfaithful than Bill Clinton? More…white…than Barack Obama? Who knows? Maybe just…richer. That’s it. The Israeli/Palestinian conflict will be settled by superior deal-making skill by a billionaire child with very little understanding of the world – so a little child shall lead them.
Is that the way they handle Trump? The truth won’t work because he can’t respond to it realistically or appropriately, and he obviously has no idea of his shortcomings. So they lie to him in a way calculated to result in the necessary response? I’m sure it’s easy; his mental buttons all have labels with big red letters on them.
And he’s so stupid he doesn’t even notice.
All too deplorable. The whole world has turned into a dark farce. As Ophelia remarked: Welcome to Hell.
Some 50 years ago there was a play or a musical “Stop the world and let me off!” Elon needs to speed up work so that humankind can exit to Mars (the peaceful planet ;) ) sooner.
Or, people could try and be better. There’s a challenge for Kushner alright.
Trump thinks peace in the Middle East is easy to achieve because he thinks everything is easy to achieve. At least for him, with his genetic greatness and all that.
John Scalzi wrote that life as a white male is like a video game on the lowest difficulty level. Life as a white male son of a wealthy real estate developer is like having the cheat codes. We know that Trump basically got where he is today because of daddy’s money and the media’s fascination with an egomaniac. But he sees himself as some ubermench who turns everything he touches to gold.
Trump looks around himself, and says, “I have a degree from a great school. I’m fantastically wealthy. Look at all the gold in my homes! My name is all over buildings and airplanes. I date beautiful women (or just grab them if that’s easier), occasionally marry them, and replace them when I feel like it. Rich and famous people tell me how nice my hotels and golf courses are. My staff (who are the best and brightest because I chose them) tell me how brilliant and awesome I am. My so-called failures were really either secret triumphs (bankruptcies that helped me avoid paying taxes) or the result of vast conspiracies against me. The lying liberal media said I had no chance of becoming president, and I did! So of course I can solve the Middle East. I don’t even need to do it personally, I can just delegate it to Jared.”
And since he doesn’t trust or grant access to anyone who questions him, that hubris ain’t going away. Even if he’s a disastrous one-term President (or less!), he’ll blame the media, the disloyal Republicans, the crooked Democrats, etc.