Interviews make it clear. It’s not that Donald can’t speak. He loves talking. It’s that he can’t think.
Since President Donald Trump fired FBI Director James Comey, he decided to allow interviews with the Economist, Time Magazine and NBC news. I’ve seen the NBC interview and read transcripts of the others.
I can’t recommend you do the same. It hurts my brain every time I have to read Trump’s freely spoken words. The man can’t walk a straight logical line. And he’s not even close to ‘clever’. He’s a walking id, saying whatever feels good to him right that moment. I think it’s why he pulls out another ludicrous superlative every few sentences. He’s stroking himself in public because he’s wounded, and it soothes him. And he’s indifferent that we’re watching.
He changes the story to make himself bigger in that moment, with no thought to what he’d said before. “No, it was my idea,” he says, contradicting his letter. “They didn’t influence me; I’d already decided to fire Comey long before that.” Can’t admit being influenced by anyone, but he cuts the legs out from under Pence, Sessions, Spicer, and all the people who he sent out to carry his water for him.
If Trump does demand people pledge their loyalty to him, something I find plausible, he clearly doesn’t return the favor.
