Vainglory/Pride

Trump’s ego drives him. Donald Trump has been consistently inconsistent when it comes to policy ideas, but his commitment to Donald Trump is absolute.

Vainglory derailed his agenda with distractions and defeats. He made the Boy Scouts speech about himself, rather than about serving others. He couldn’t handle the slight from Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s vote against the GOP health bill, so he threatened all of Alaska — thereby cementing her fateful opposition. And he held a rally in Ohio — not to build support for a vote he already had or to make the case for a policy agenda — but because he can only recharge with the adoration of a cheering crowd. Then, he left the chanting multitudes and tweeted about crowd size — the 252nd time he has done so. (For comparison, he’s tweeted 36 times about Afghanistan). Governing is about others, but Trump hasn’t been able to bury his pride.


[link:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/07/31/how-trump-embodies-seven-deadly-sins-brian-klaas-column/523664001/|