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Judi Lynn

(160,415 posts)
Mon Aug 21, 2017, 04:59 PM Aug 2017

Trump's White House staff keeps referring to him as a toddler

By
Michael Martin
Published : August 21, 2017
A professor is keeping a running list of quotes about the manbaby-in-chief.


President Trump's aides can't stop referring to him as if he were a temperamental toddler, the Washington Post observes.

Daniel Dresner, a professor of politics at Tufts University, has assembled a thread compiling tweets in which people close to the president inadvertently reveal that he is not growing into the most important office in the world — or adulthood generally.

Dresner observed tweets referring to the president, and noticed a pattern: "It quickly became clear that the evidence that Trump was not growing into the presidency was hiding in plain sight," he says. "Barely a week or even a day could pass without someone with access to Trump telling the news media in no uncertain terms the ways in which he was unfit for office."

So he has decided to catalog the tweets that show the commander-in-chief behaving like a pre-preschooler. At the moment, he has 71.

More:
http://www.metro.us/president-trump/trump-white-house-acting-toddler

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Trump's White House staff keeps referring to him as a toddler (Original Post) Judi Lynn Aug 2017 OP
It's sad we have a President who has to be tended to like a child CatMor Aug 2017 #1
But the emails!! nt. madinmaryland Aug 2017 #2
Yes, the horrible emails CatMor Aug 2017 #3
toddler Trump Goonch Aug 2017 #4
There are toddlers with more self restraint than trump Gothmog Aug 2017 #5
He is presidential because he's not shitting in his pants or eating rocks dalton99a Aug 2017 #6
Not that we can prove... n/t billh58 Aug 2017 #7

CatMor

(6,212 posts)
1. It's sad we have a President who has to be tended to like a child
Mon Aug 21, 2017, 05:12 PM
Aug 2017

how could this nightmare have happened. The least I would expect of a President is they are sane and can function on their own without aides watching over the President like a naughty child. Also, I expect a President to be intelligent although through history that hasn't always been the case but none have been as ignorant or dangerous as trump

CatMor

(6,212 posts)
3. Yes, the horrible emails
Mon Aug 21, 2017, 05:23 PM
Aug 2017

every time the pundits would start with that on TV I would start screaming and turn it off.

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