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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWolff: Trump believes media should venerate/adore him b/c as prez he's most famous man in the world
From the excerpts from Wolff''s book in British GQ:
http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/michael-wolff-book-trump
The conundrum was that conservative media saw Trump as its creature, while Trump saw himself as a star, a vaunted and valued product of all media, one climbing ever higher. It was a cult of personality and he was the personality. He was the most famous man in the world. Everybody loved him or ought to.
On Trumps part this was, arguably, something of a large misunderstanding about the nature of conservative media. He clearly did not understand that what conservative media elevated, liberal media would necessarily take down. Trump, goaded by Bannon, would continue to do the things that would delight conservative media and incur the wrath of liberal media. That was the programme. The more your supporters loved you, the more your antagonists hated you. Thats how it was supposed to work. And thats how it was working.
But Trump himself was desperately wounded by his treatment in the mainstream media. He obsessed over every slight until it was succeeded by the next slight. Slights were singled out and replayed again and again, his mood worsening with each replay (he was always rerunning the DVR). Much of the presidents daily conversation was a repetitive rundown of what various anchors and hosts had said about him. And he was upset not only when he was attacked, but when the people around him were attacked. But he did not credit their loyalty or blame himself or the nature of liberal media for the indignities heaped on his staffers; he blamed them and their inability to get good press.
Mainstream medias self-righteousness and contempt for Trump helped provide a tsunami of clicks for right-wing media. But an often raging, self-pitying, tormented president had not gotten this memo, or had failed to comprehend it. He was looking for media love everywhere. In this, Trump quite profoundly seemed unable to distinguish between his political advantage and his personal needs he thought emotionally, not strategically.
The great value of being president, in his view, was that youre the most famous man in the world, and fame is always venerated and adored by the media. Isnt it? But, confusingly, Trump was president in large part because of his particular talent, conscious or reflexive, to alienate the media, which then turned him into a figure reviled by the media. This was not a dialectical space that was comfortable for an insecure man.
On Trumps part this was, arguably, something of a large misunderstanding about the nature of conservative media. He clearly did not understand that what conservative media elevated, liberal media would necessarily take down. Trump, goaded by Bannon, would continue to do the things that would delight conservative media and incur the wrath of liberal media. That was the programme. The more your supporters loved you, the more your antagonists hated you. Thats how it was supposed to work. And thats how it was working.
But Trump himself was desperately wounded by his treatment in the mainstream media. He obsessed over every slight until it was succeeded by the next slight. Slights were singled out and replayed again and again, his mood worsening with each replay (he was always rerunning the DVR). Much of the presidents daily conversation was a repetitive rundown of what various anchors and hosts had said about him. And he was upset not only when he was attacked, but when the people around him were attacked. But he did not credit their loyalty or blame himself or the nature of liberal media for the indignities heaped on his staffers; he blamed them and their inability to get good press.
Mainstream medias self-righteousness and contempt for Trump helped provide a tsunami of clicks for right-wing media. But an often raging, self-pitying, tormented president had not gotten this memo, or had failed to comprehend it. He was looking for media love everywhere. In this, Trump quite profoundly seemed unable to distinguish between his political advantage and his personal needs he thought emotionally, not strategically.
The great value of being president, in his view, was that youre the most famous man in the world, and fame is always venerated and adored by the media. Isnt it? But, confusingly, Trump was president in large part because of his particular talent, conscious or reflexive, to alienate the media, which then turned him into a figure reviled by the media. This was not a dialectical space that was comfortable for an insecure man.
With that in mind, remember what Trump tweeted a week ago, that the media will be "loving" him and will have to let him win in 2020:
https://upload.democraticunderground.com/100210034440
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Wolff: Trump believes media should venerate/adore him b/c as prez he's most famous man in the world (Original Post)
highplainsdem
Jan 2018
OP
To know Trump is to hate Trump. People world-wide are now seeing what New Yorkers have
smirkymonkey
Jan 2018
#1
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)1. To know Trump is to hate Trump. People world-wide are now seeing what New Yorkers have
always known. He is nothing but a vile, vulgar, stupid, vacant, insecure, arrogant shell of a human being. I don't think he has any idea how much people truly hate him.
underpants
(182,788 posts)2. Kick
MFM008
(19,808 posts)3. I believe if they
Executed him like King Louis (and Marie Antoinette ) people would stampede to dip their handkerchief in the grease that spills out....
He may be the most hated man in the world.
patricia92243
(12,595 posts)4. Infamous. Most know infamous person alive. Others that are dead are
more so - for now.