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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump on Sally Yates: "Such a c*nt. Yates is only famous because of me"
Here was, Bannon saw again, the essential Trump problem. He hopelessly personalized everything. He saw the world in commercial and show business terms: someone else was always trying to one-up you, someone else was always trying to take the limelight. The battle was between you and someone else who wanted what you had. For Bannon, reducing the political world to face-offs and spats belittled the place in history Trump and his administration had achieved. But it also belied the real powers they were up against. Not peopleinstitutions.
To Trump, he was just up against Sally Yates, who was, he steamed, such a cunt.
For each of his enemiesand, actually, for each of his friendsthe issue for him came down, in many ways, to their personal press plan. The media was the battlefield. Trump assumed everybody wanted his or her fifteen minutes and that everybody had a press strategy for when they got them. If you couldnt get press directly for yourself, you became a leaker. There was no happenstance news, in Trumps view. All news was manipulated and designed, planned and planted. All news was to some extent fakehe understood that very well, because he himself had faked it so many times in his career. This was why he had so naturally cottoned to the fake news label. Ive made stuff up forever, and they always print it, he bragged.
The return of Sally Yates, with her appointment before the Senate Judiciary Committee, marked the beginning, Trump believed, of a sustained and well-organized media rollout for her. (His press view was confirmed later in May by a lavish, hagiographic profile of Yates in the New Yorker. How long do you think she was planning this? he asked, rhetorically. You know she was. Its her payday.) Yates is only famous because of me, the president complained bitterly. Otherwise, who is she? Nobody.
To Trump, he was just up against Sally Yates, who was, he steamed, such a cunt.
For each of his enemiesand, actually, for each of his friendsthe issue for him came down, in many ways, to their personal press plan. The media was the battlefield. Trump assumed everybody wanted his or her fifteen minutes and that everybody had a press strategy for when they got them. If you couldnt get press directly for yourself, you became a leaker. There was no happenstance news, in Trumps view. All news was manipulated and designed, planned and planted. All news was to some extent fakehe understood that very well, because he himself had faked it so many times in his career. This was why he had so naturally cottoned to the fake news label. Ive made stuff up forever, and they always print it, he bragged.
The return of Sally Yates, with her appointment before the Senate Judiciary Committee, marked the beginning, Trump believed, of a sustained and well-organized media rollout for her. (His press view was confirmed later in May by a lavish, hagiographic profile of Yates in the New Yorker. How long do you think she was planning this? he asked, rhetorically. You know she was. Its her payday.) Yates is only famous because of me, the president complained bitterly. Otherwise, who is she? Nobody.
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Trump on Sally Yates: "Such a c*nt. Yates is only famous because of me" (Original Post)
dalton99a
Jan 2018
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ProudMNDemocrat
(16,845 posts)1. It is bullshit when Trump says.....
he respects women.
Just no women who happen to be smarter than him, have more polished resumes than him, and have actually accomplished something in their lives to show for it than he has.
Did he not refer to Melania as a "Trophy wife"? I mean look at her! Quiet, subservient, flashy 5th Avenue dresser, and there to be seen to make Trump look better? Come fucking on!
dalton99a
(81,656 posts)3. Yes, he did - "proudly and without irony"
bluestarone
(17,100 posts)2. no woman on this earth should
ever vote for this scum pig
MineralMan
(146,341 posts)5. Nor man, either.
tanyev
(42,644 posts)4. Absolutely unthinkable to him that there are people who dont care about fame.
I bet shed much rather be hard at work for the country as it used to be.