Trump vs. the grown-ups: Who's winning?
(CNN)True to form, President Donald Trump capped a week of messing with the world by not really scrapping the treaty that keeps a lid on Iran's nuclear ambitionsand by proposing to cripple Obamacare in the name of improving Americans' health care. Add Thursday's tweet about abandoning storm-ravaged Puerto Rico and you get Trump in classic mode, spreading chaos and anxiety.
Although arch-loyalists would say there's a method to Trump's madness, anyone who has ever dealt with an impulsive and destructive authority figure -- parent, teacher, boss -- finds the dynamic familiar. When the top dog feels confused and upset, when reality can no longer be escaped and failure can't be denied, others must feel his pain, too. Then it becomes time for blame and self-pity. "I hate everyone in the White House!" is what Trump reportedly said to his ex-security chief Keith Schiller, according to Gabriel Sherman, writing in Vanity Fair (and noting that the White House denies it).
Spoken like a parent who beats his child and then complains that his hand hurts.
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