Driven by vengeance, Trump is eager to ‘punish his enemies’
11/07/16 12:55 PM—UPDATED 11/07/16 12:56 PM
By Steve Benen
Campaign observers may have noticed that it’s been a couple of weeks since Donald Trump said something ridiculous on Twitter. It turns out, there’s an explanation for that: the New York Times reports that the Republican candidate’s aides “have finally wrested away the Twitter account that he used to colorfully – and often counterproductively – savage his rivals.”
That’s no small revelation. The GOP nominee’s own staff is so concerned about his erratic and “self-destructive impulses” – aides have so little confidence in Trump’s ability to restrain himself – that they had to intervene to silence him on social media before the candidate did further damage to his own candidacy.
“If somebody can’t handle a Twitter account, they can’t handle the nuclear codes,” President Obama said yesterday. “If somebody starts tweeting at three in the morning because ‘SNL’ made fun of you, then you can’t handle the nuclear codes.”
The Times’ article is filled with a series of related examples, including the circumstances surrounding his Oct. 22 speech in Gettysburg, Pa. Trump was supposed to focus on government reform, and aides provided him with an outline of 15 ideas. He rejected 10 of them and insisted on including language in the remarks about suing the women who’ve accused him of sexual misconduct.
When staffers pleaded with Trump to reconsider, he refused, with predictable results: the speech was a disaster, all because the GOP nominee decided he could not allow his accuser to “come at me” without a counter-attack.
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http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/driven-vengeance-trump-eager-punish-his-enemies?cid=eml_mra_20161107
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