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Donald Trump poisons everything

For Trump, “consequences are piling up” in Washington. “He is failing”: Trump strikes out solo as friends worry and enemies circle. Thread: “He’s an utter failure as president, and he clearly knows it, so he’s lashing out and breaking things just because he can”. Trump keeps getting mad when he finds out what his policies actually do: “But like the millions of low-information voters who elected him, Trump was duped by Fox News”. Inside the “adult day-care center”: How aides try to control and coerce Trump. Trump’s not just the head of state — he’s the “talent”. Trump’s reverse Midas touch is making everything he hates popular.

President Trump has made 1,318 false or misleading claims over 263 days. Promise the moon? Easy for Trump — but now comes the reckoning. Trump’s bold declarations don’t always lead to the results he promises. The power of Trump’s positive thinking: The president always has believed he could will himself to success — but has he crossed the line between optimism and delusion? The power of negative thinking: Trump’s dark portrayal of the country offers important lessons for his political opponents.

Trump’s conduct in office reflects the psychology that supposedly inspired the infamous “pee tape” uncannily. Trump is the wrong president to honor “National Character Counts Week”. For each scene of his presidency, Trump casts a villain (or two, or three). “A soulless coward’: Coach Gregg Popovich responds to Trump. "A deranged animal": Trump’s newest lie about Obama is causing fury inside and outside the military. That’s the thing: Donald Trump poisons everything (and part 2: “You’re talking about someone with a profound selfishness, a jarring inability to experience empathy and a kind of ravenous emotional predation”).