Quite understandably, most people feel a sense of satisfaction in being right about something when their opinions are proven to be true. But every once in a while, it feels far better to be proven wrong about something. For example, if you're concerned that a spouse might be cheating, it can be a great feeling to find out that there's a simple provable explanation to events that otherwise seem very suspicious. Likewise, if and when you think someone might be lying to you and stealing from you. What a feeling of relief to find out that you were wrong, right?
That's what I was hoping with Trump. I was hoping that my concerns about his temperament, his overly sensitive nature to criticism, and his penchant for just making stuff up and jumping to conclusions on incomplete information would be tempered by the weight of his new responsibilities, AND his staff.
That's what I was hoping would be true. In other words, I was hoping my concerns about Trump and my feeling of what was going to happen with Trump in office due to his well-known personality traits would be proven to be wrong. Well, based on everything that happened on Saturday with Trump's obsession with the media reporting on the crowd size during his inauguration the day before and how Trump talked about it at the CIA headquarters (of all places) and later directed his press secretary, Sean Spicer, to come out and engage in an angry harangue, including making demonstrably false statements while also not taking any questions at all has led me to believe that my fears of a Trump presidency were completely justified. Sadly, the story continued on Sunday on the Sunday news shows, and only seemed to get worse. Ironically, a story about crowd size, whether smaller or larger, isn't even important and would be quickly forgotten if it was left alone and/or ignored.
My fears are only increasing seeing as how there is nobody in all of America that gets criticized and even attacked more, and more often, than the president of the USA. It's a nonstop 24/7 proposition. If Trump can't handle an accurate, but passing, story on the crowd size during the inauguration when he knows he lost the popular vote nationwide as well as losing the popular vote in Washington DC, how in hell is Trump going to be able to handle criticism from all sides when it starts coming in his direction as it certainly will just like it does with ALL presidents?
That's what I was hoping with Trump. I was hoping that my concerns about his temperament, his overly sensitive nature to criticism, and his penchant for just making stuff up and jumping to conclusions on incomplete information would be tempered by the weight of his new responsibilities, AND his staff.
That's what I was hoping would be true. In other words, I was hoping my concerns about Trump and my feeling of what was going to happen with Trump in office due to his well-known personality traits would be proven to be wrong. Well, based on everything that happened on Saturday with Trump's obsession with the media reporting on the crowd size during his inauguration the day before and how Trump talked about it at the CIA headquarters (of all places) and later directed his press secretary, Sean Spicer, to come out and engage in an angry harangue, including making demonstrably false statements while also not taking any questions at all has led me to believe that my fears of a Trump presidency were completely justified. Sadly, the story continued on Sunday on the Sunday news shows, and only seemed to get worse. Ironically, a story about crowd size, whether smaller or larger, isn't even important and would be quickly forgotten if it was left alone and/or ignored.
My fears are only increasing seeing as how there is nobody in all of America that gets criticized and even attacked more, and more often, than the president of the USA. It's a nonstop 24/7 proposition. If Trump can't handle an accurate, but passing, story on the crowd size during the inauguration when he knows he lost the popular vote nationwide as well as losing the popular vote in Washington DC, how in hell is Trump going to be able to handle criticism from all sides when it starts coming in his direction as it certainly will just like it does with ALL presidents?
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