This may seem obvious, but I think I've boiled it down.

Aug 16, 2017, 10:08 AM

I don't believe the President is motivated by racism or Russia, or any of the other things often thrown his way.

Just about every speech, every tweet, every news conference makes it abundantly evident. The President's primary motivation is to be seen as great. Not to be liked necessarily, but to be thought of as great and important.

This is why he obsessed with approval polls on the campaign trail.
This is why he is obsessed with touting his election win, even months later.
This is why he cannot tolerate someone suggesting an election he won was meddled with.
This is why he made a huge deal about inauguration crowds.
This is why he almost daily retweets compliments toward himself made by other people.
This is why he cannot let an opportunity go by, no matter how unrelated or even solemn the occasion, to brag about his accomplishments.
This is why he complains to the Mexican president about how refusing to pay for "the wall" will make Trump look bad, not about how it will affect the USA.
This is why, when talking about something important for America, he'll randomly say things like "that person has said the greatest things about me".
This is why nothing will get him hotter than someone not being complimentary toward him.
This is why he campaigned on the line "I alone can fix this," but then when it doesn't get fixed, he blames McConnell or McCain, or anyone else.
This is why he obsessively watches and reads news, to see what they are saying about him.

I know everyone knows this about his personality, because he's been this way his entire public life. It just really hit home for me in the last day or two that his Presidency, and the way he executes it, can be reduced very simply to this aspect.

I believe if somehow burning America to the ground would make him be viewed as great, he would light the match. I personally do not believe he cares about the American people. He just wants to be their hero.

I'm not mad about this. I'm actually kind of at peace with it, because I think I at least understand what we've got. I don't think I will say "how could he possibly say that?" anymore. I'll say, "of course he would say that. Why wouldn't he?"

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in the two of how the affliction impacted their actions. "But-but-Obama" isn't really a valid response to a point that wasn't seeking to deflect blame from Trump. It's possible to discuss both candidates openly and honestly in the same breath.

Inaction on Syria
Related, but similar---Inaction on ISIS in general (JV Team)
Inaction in diplomatic negotiations with Iraq govt, which would have allowed small US presence to remain. Removal of said small force led to Iraq fracture, and ISIS toehold in nation.
Inaction on UN Israel resolution
Inaction on pipeline approvals
Multiple inactions on China testing out boundaries(SCS build up, drone and ship seizures, etc)
Inaction on Crimea

They're mostly in areas of foreign policy.....not so say we should have gone all war-hawkish in all these scenarios, but in most cases the response was ineffectively tepid.

This may seem obvious, but I think I've boiled it down.

Bruh, Obama was obsessed about his legacy.

Of course, he was.

In business, the guy who move up is often the guy who

Oh man, I haven't really thought about that, but yeah.......

That's weird... I thought we were talking about Trump.

Again, if you read my post, I was noting the contrast

Well he vocally opposed the Keystone pipeline.

I was thinking more of the Dakotas***

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I don't know. I'm getting kind of attached to that image.

HE SHOULD HAVE USED THE WORDS, FIRE AND FURY,

Hence Talking Point 1 out of the White House Yesterday

Ddi you see the one line from that memo?

You just described every person that ever ran for office***

That must be disappointing to people who thought he'd be

So, all people do those things I listed...

Narcissism to the Nth degree...***

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