Thursday, July 08, 2021

Officially?

At some point, this is just sad:

Berman showed a photo of Trump from the event and the podium that contained a kind of official seal-looking-graphic on the front saying "The Office of Donald Trump."

"Trying to project the image that he is the president," Berman said. "I mean, am I wrong to look at this and say this is a deliberate effort going on here?"

Haberman agreed, saying that everything Trump produces now plays up that he is the 45th president and doesn't say "the former president."

"His staff still calls him 45," she said. "You know, very frequently. That's not unusual to have a president's staff do that. Obama's staff calls him 44. But the fact that they put out these statements being so aggressive this way is very notable. There is this whether it's because it makes him feel good or conveys strength or tries that he is not diminished on stage. He's trying to project this 'I'm still in power' image. And he's not — to be clear."

"Office of Donald Trump"?  Does he understand he's not an "office"? Or is this more evidence he never understood what "Office of the President" was?  And that it wasn't just a room.

All of the glory, none of the responsibility.

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