(November 21, 2016 at 1:54 pm)Tonus Wrote:(November 21, 2016 at 1:42 pm)Crossless1 Wrote: He's a bitch who has spent years thinking his team of lawyers makes him an alpha.
That's because people have been treating him like an alpha dog for a very long time. As he himself noted with his "grab them by the pussy" remark, his fame and money are a ticket to all kinds of behavior with few --if any-- consequences. And as President, he can probably still be just as arrogant and vindictive as he always has been as long as he does so privately or as long as his actions meet with the approval of his supporters. His problem will most likely come when he is in press conferences and the media members arrive ready to pepper him with difficult questions that are delivered with thinly-veiled contempt. Can he keep his cool and deliver the occasional zinger without going berzerk? I think that Republicans are most concerned about that and will try to coach him as much as possible. Do I think he can do that? Ummm... not sure. Do I think he will? No. No I do not.
If I served as one of his advisors, I'd move heaven and earth to keep him away from a microphone if there is no teleprompter from which he can read. The question is, will his ego permit such handling?
I can't wait to see him wing it at his press conferences, which I suspect will be few and far between. The media collectively must be feeling the sting of criticism for having given him such an uncritical free pass throughout much of the campaign season so they could bolster their ratings and rake in advertising revenue. I wouldn't be surprised if a few knives aren't being sharpened among the White House press even as I write this. I don't think he has the knowledge base, patience, or cool under fire to deal with them long term -- unless he resorts to marginalizing reporters for major news outlets that don't report/editorialize in ways he likes. And that will expose him to even more heat in the press. Reporters (as opposed to news bureaus and the corporations that own them) tend to band together when one of their own is perceived to be treated unfairly by a powerful public person.
Mr. Apprentice, who enjoyed billions of dollars of free campaign coverage thanks to the very media he and his supporters excoriate, might become the President with the most poisonous relationship with the press since Nixon. The entertainment value of that would exceed the wildest dreams of the cretins who give us reality TV.
