Even when it comes to the solemn duties of the office, President Donald Trump can’t help but make everything about himself and obsess about the media coverage.
So it went for Trump’s trips to Dayton and El Paso this week, which featured the president pointlessly lashing out with lies at Democratic critics and — and as a new video released Thursday revealed — bragging about his crowd sizes at the hospital where mass shooting victims were being treated.
And according to reports from CNN and the New York Times, the Trump grew angry with his aides during the trip even as White House staff tried to prevent the visits from becoming the disaster they inevitably devolved into.
View the complete August 8 article by Cody Fenwick on the AlterNet website here.