Tag: loyalty

Loyalty is a one-way street for Donald Trump

The following article by James Hohmann and Breanne Deppisch was posted on the Washington Post website May 15, 2017:

President Donald Trump speaks to students in the Oval Office last Friday. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)

THE BIG IDEA: Many West Wing staffers have sacrificed their personal reputations by parroting falsehoods on behalf of Donald Trump. How will their devotion be repaid? Perhaps with pink slips.

The president has a congenital inability to take personal responsibility for his own mistakes. Throughout his career, he’s sought out scapegoats whenever situations get hairy. He’s doing it again amidst the continuing fallout from his decision to fire James Comey as FBI director. Continue reading “Loyalty is a one-way street for Donald Trump”

The price of loyalty to Donald Trump is high and rising

The following article by James Hohmann with Breanne Deppisch was posted on the Washington Post website February 17, 2017:

THE BIG IDEA: Donald Trump has an unending need to feel like he’s in total control of his surroundings. That helps explain why he’s felt so frustrated and lashed out so much over the past month. The president’s alpha male personality drives him to firmly assert himself whenever he can, whether in handshakes with foreign leaders or at lunch with friends.

It’s a little thing, but it’s telling: When Chris Christie came to the White House to discuss the opioid epidemic earlier this week, Trump made him order the meatloaf. Continue reading “The price of loyalty to Donald Trump is high and rising”