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We have a senile crook in the Oval office. Yes. we. do.
MSNBCs Joy Reid just revealed what everyone missed about Trumps bizarre NY Times interview
http://washingtonpress.com/2017/12/29/msnbcs-joy-reid-just-revealed-everyone-missed-trumps-bizarre-ny-times-interview/
By Peter Mellado
Published on December 29, 2017
MSNBC news host Joy Reid published an epic Twitter thread following the release of President Trumps recent interview with the New York Times. The interview caught everyone by surprise, first and foremost because it was with the Times, publication with which the president has been incredibly hostile, but also for his calculated language and his trademark self-promotional flourishes with little if any basis in facts.
As many as 24 claims Trump made in the 30 minute interview have been rated false or misleading by the Washington Post, and more than a few experts have commented on the presidents mental state after reading the transcripts released by the New York Times.
Joy Reid took a slightly different tack. She began her flurry with an observation about the presidents tone in the interview, saying, Trump speaks a lot like a child does. Lots of focus on who likes him, who loves him, who is his friend
his biographers all emphasize his deep desire to be loved & it comes through.
In a subsequent set of tweets, she focused on what she called Trumps autocrats impulse when it came to governing, adding that He literally adopted a Godfather phraseology to all but say Democrats could have avoided blue state tax hikes via SALT if they had come to him to plead for his largesse............................................................
Joy Reid?Verified account @JoyAnnReid
Now that Ive read the entire transcript of @nytmikes Trump interview, a few observations:
1. Trump speaks a lot like a child does. Lots of focus on who likes him, who loves him, who is his friend... his biographers all emphasize his deep desire to be loved & it comes through.
10:13 PM - 28 Dec 2017
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?Verified account @JoyAnnReid
Dec 28
2. Trump repeats whatever he is fixated on over and over again. I counted 15 no collusion repeats, sometimes two or three times in a single paragraph. And he keeps returning over and over again to the election and how he managed to win via the Electoral College. Hes fixated.
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Joy Reid
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Dec 28
3. Trump things being president means he can do whatever he wants. He has an autocrat's impulse, and believes literally everyone in government, from the attorney general to every member of Congress, essentially works for him, owes him loyalty, and must "come to him" for mercy.
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Joy Reid
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Dec 28
He literally adopted a "Godfather" phraseology to all but say Democrats could have avoided blue state tax hikes via SALT if they had "come to him" to plead for his largesse. It's a combination of the impulses of 1. and 3.
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Joy Reid
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Dec 28
4. Trump thinks he is still the star of a TV show, and that the media has the power to decide who wins elections, based on ratings. Seriously:

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Joy Reid Verified account @JoyAnnReid
Dec 28
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5. Trump invents his own reality, and then states that everybody else believes his version of reality too. And since he is so transparent, it's hard to argue that this is a strategy, rather than a form of self-delusion or just stubborn refusal to accept what is real.
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Joy Reid
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There are literally no Democrats who believe that. None. But he repeats that over and over in the interview.





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Joy Reid
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Dec 28
I've never observed anyone who is more precisely like his biographers have described him. And Trump's biographers have, to put it mildly, not been kind. He lives inside his own reality, where he is part beloved autocrat/dictator and part main character in a never-ending TV show.
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Joy Reid Verified account @JoyAnnReid
Dec 28
It is absolutely stunning that this person is president of the United States.











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Joy Reid
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Dec 28
I'm not sure, by the way, what this means for Democrats. Trump clearly assumes that they HAVE NO CHOICE but to come crawling to him to do infrastructure, DACA, and inexplicably, to make a new, *better* healthcare (he specifically says "not Obamacare."
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Joy Reid
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Dec 28
He clearly thinks this will happen, and that somehow magically, they will "do bipartisan." That's his actual phrase: "do bipartisan." Not "do bipartisan legislation," just "do bipartisan." He thinks it naturally will happen.
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Joy Reid
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Dec 28
If Democrats go along, it will only feed his grandiosity. If they don't, it feeds his rage and opens the black hole of vengeance inside him, which he could take out on them, vulnerable populations, maybe other countries (war is still not unthinkable...) I just don't know.






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Joy Reid Verified account @JoyAnnReid
Dec 28
But it's absolutely stunning that this is what's happening. But it is what's happening.
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Joy Reid Verified account @JoyAnnReid
Dec 28
Here's the transcript. Enjoy.
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