1/ These daily clashes make evident that Trump would attack any non-servile press. He particularly loathes questions from women and non-whites,but in principle, you can see how much he enjoys the fighting regardless. ‘Owning the libs’ is territory he knows and loves, where corona
2/ is something he doesn’t understand, and critically, doesn’t really want to, bc he doesn’t care, and is fundamentally lazy. Laziness plays a far bigger part in the poor federal response than most people realize. Trump doesn’t want to do the work, the reading, the listening to
3/ experts. He doesn’t have the intellectual drive, the attention span, the focus to do the POTUS job much less to seriously crisis-manage. That’s why he wanted to end the whole thing at Easter. He’s bored & obviously out of his depth. Corona is pushing him to work - instead of
4/ watching TV, rage-tweeting, golfing, MAGA rallying - and he hates it. T just doesn’t want to do the actual job, and it’s painfully obvious in these wandering, bizarre, combative, non-informative pressers. That’s why serious stations aren’t running them live anymore. T doesn’t
5/ know how to be POTUS, and we’re seeing it everyday in these T performance art displays. So yes, journalists should keep asking him questions; it’s important that there’s an unambiguous historical record of Trump’s gross unfitness, like Nixon saying if the prez does it,it’s not
6/ illegal. But T will never answer tough questions in a remotely informative or good faith way. He has neither the knowledge of corona & the response, nor the stamina & focus, to answer. ‘Owning the libs’ is what he knows,and his sheer laziness means he’ll go there again & again
7/ Here’s a nice example of exactly what I’m talking @ above: . T is talking @ the Bachelor during a pandemic bc is literally too lazy to read his briefs on the virus & stop watching TV. Honestly, I wonder sometimes why he’s even POTUS.He seems2hate the job
8/ And yet another example:
