Trump built his empire on bullying and bluster. It can't save him now
Interesting little read about the ego-maniac-
For most of his years in business, and especially on The Apprentice, Trump played tough. He took his cue from his father, who urged his sons to be “killers”, and from mob lawyer Roy Cohn, who was known for bullying behaviour and counselled his protégé never to back down. In 2005, Trump told biographer Tim O’Brien that he viewed a man crying as a weakness and spoke admiringly of the mobster John Gotti’s stone face during multiple trials. Perhaps most importantly, his staff were all in on building the Trump brand and kept mostly mum about the boss’s private tantrums.
What’s different now is that, in the White House, Trump is exposed to a degree he’s never experienced. His staff are leaking like crazy, and the press is full of accounts of Trump behaving in a fashion that’s anything but stone-faced. Further, he’s facing a Congress and an executive branch filled with people who see themselves as worse off if he remains in office. Not enough – so far – to topple him, but it’s getting harder and harder for him to rely on the punch-back, double-down, blame-others strategy he’s used with those he couldn’t get to see things his way.
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