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They didn’t coin it. It’s an

artappraiser — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 03:05:43 +0000

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They didn’t coin it. It’s an actual disorder - Opposition Defiance Disorder - and some of his aides believe he has it https://t.co/PWEV8stLZ8
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) January 22, 2018

This new Trump book could do

artappraiser — Mon, 22 Jan 2018 23:21:29 +0000

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This new Trump book could do even more damage than Michael Wolff’s. Here’s why.

By Aaron Blake @ WashingtonPost.com, Jan. 22 at 11:39 am

[....] The author of this one is Fox News Channel media critic Howard Kurtz, a former longtime reporter at The Washington Post. And as The Post's Ashley Parker writes, his book — “Media Madness: Donald Trump, the Press, and the War Over the Truth” — confirms and expands upon media accounts of the chaos happening behind the scenes at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

Among the juiciest anecdotes:

Trump has a tendency to do whatever his advisers most strongly advise him against, and they even have a term for such behavior: his “defiance disorder.”

He, out of nowhere, tweeted his decision to ban transgender people from the military before a scheduled meeting with then-Chief of Staff Reince Priebus to discuss his options on the matter. “Oh my God, he just tweeted this,” Priebus reportedly said.

His aides were similarly blindsided by his accusation, also via Twitter, that President Barack Obama wiretapped Trump during the presidential campaign.

Trump was strongly advised not to dispatch then-press secretary Sean Spicer to dispute stories about Trump's inaugural crowd size and later admitted, “I shouldn’t have done that.”

We don't know what the overall tone of the book is and how many more such anecdotes it contains; Parker obtained excerpts of the book, which is due out Jan. 29. And she notes that those excerpts sometimes contain a more flattering portrayal of Trump than we see in Wolff's book and elsewhere in the media [....]

Donald Trump and His Work

artappraiser — Sun, 21 Jan 2018 01:33:48 +0000

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Donald Trump and His Work Wives

What does Hope Hicks do, exactly? Vast amounts of emotional labor.

Op-ed by Jill Filipovic @ NYTimes.com, Jan. 20

There are so many bombshells in Michael Wolff’s new book, “Fire and Fury,” that smaller anecdotes are going largely unremarked upon, even if they offer disturbing insight into the presidential psyche. One of them is Mr. Trump’s penchant for hiring women into often vaguely defined but closely held roles.

“Women, according to Trump, were simply more loyal and trustworthy than men,” Mr. Wolff writes. “Men might be more forceful and competent, but they were also more likely to have their own agendas. Women, by their nature, or Trump’s version of their nature, were more likely to focus their purpose on a man. A man like Trump.” Mr. Trump, the author continued, “needed special — extra-special — handling. Women, he explained to one friend with something like self-awareness, generally got this more precisely than men. In particular, women who self-selected themselves as tolerant of or oblivious to or amused by or steeled against his casual misogyny and constant sexual subtext — which was somehow, incongruously and often jarringly, matched with paternal regard — got this.”

The term “emotional labor” gets vastly overused, but this is a textbook example [.....]