Sunday, January 22, 2017

So needy for approval


Donald Trump has taken to reviewing and praising his own speeches, just in case you missed it. Needless to say, like so much of what he says in his speeches, his reviews are mostly bullshit, like his one for the CIA speech yesterday.
Donald Trump has stayed true to campaign-trail form, using his personal Twitter account rather than his newly acquired handle @POTUS on Sunday to praise his own performance in a meeting with intelligence officials and dismiss the worldwide protests against his presidency.

A little after 7am ET, the president tweeted:


Trump spoke on Saturday at the CIA HQ in Virginia, in front of the memorial wall for officers killed in the line of duty.

His 15-minute speech included boasts about the supposed – and inaccurate – size of crowds for his inauguration; expressions of airily defined love and support for intelligence agencies with which he has been at odds over their belief in Russian attempts to influence the election on his behalf; boasts about the number of times he has appeared on the cover of Time magazine; the supposed God-given fact that it stopped raining when he spoke at the Capitol on Friday (it didn’t); and an insinuation that he might start another war in Iraq.

The speech met with laughter and applause from an audience composed largely of CIA staffers. On Saturday night, however, the recently retired CIA director John Brennan communicated through a former aide that he was “deeply saddened and angered at Trump’s despicable display of self-aggrandisement” in front of the memorial wall.

Appearing on ABC’s This Week on Sunday, senior Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway said it was time for the president “to put in his own security intelligence community” and added: “We really would prefer the intelligence community that’s going out the door to be much more respectful toward the president and his vision in moving forward.”
His speech was a typical Trumpoon mashup of self agrandizement, falsehoods and slogans with polite golf claps from the crowd. And since he made no policy announcements, he really didn't need to give it for any reason beyond self-satisfaction. We will probably get a lot of that in the days ahead.

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