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Undated: “Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.” -or- The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/the-top-10-misattributed-quotations-a7910361.html
[also see
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edmund_Burke ]
-- 2015 --
September 17: The Personality of Donald Trump
What the science of personality can tell us about the Republican frontrunner.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-situation-lab/201509/the-personality-donald-trump
-- 2016 --
July: Based on conversations with people who have worked for him, people who still work for him and a half dozen of his biographers, the reality of Trump as an executive—his methods and his manner—bears little resemblance to the man viewers saw on the show. Rather than magisterial and decisive, Trump the actual boss swings wildly between micromanaging meddler and can’t-be-bothered, broad-brush, big-picture thinker. He is both impulsive and intuitive, for better and for worse. He hires on gut instinct rather than qualifications; he listens to others, but not as much or as often as he listens to himself.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/07/2016-donald-trump-boss-employer-company-hired-fired-employees-workers-management-business-214020
September 13: The Psychology Behind Donald Trump's Unwavering Support
Research explains why Donald Trump maintains support despite shocking behavior.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mind-in-the-machine/201609/the-psychology-behind-donald-trumps-unwavering-support
-- 2017 --
June 13: Why does America support Donald Trump despite his preposterous behavior?
https://www.quora.com/Why-does-America-support-Donald-Trump-despite-his-preposterous-behavior
July 28: Hours after three Republican senators including John McCain dealt a crushing blow to President Donald Trump's hopes of repealing Obamacare, at least one political operative claimed the Trump presidency "is effectively over."
"If he [President Trump] cannot change and he cannot become presidential and he cannot convince the majority of the American people to enact some legislative agenda that he wants passed, his presidency, legislatively, is effectively over."
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/07/28/trump-presidency-over/23054112/
August 17: Sen. [Bob] Corker: Trump has not shown 'stability' or 'competence' he needs to be successful
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/17/sen-corker-trump-has-not-shown-stability-or-competence-he-needs.html
September 9: Is Donald Trump's behavior presidential?
Donald Trump was a nontraditional candidate, and now he's a remarkably unconventional president. His critics are aghast at his conduct: swearing at rallies, tweeting insults and calling unstable world leaders names seems undignified and even dangerous to many. But his supporters applaud his behavior. They say Trump's unvarnished talk, decisive action and desire to flout convention is just what we need.
https://thetylt.com/politics/donald-trump-presidential-behavior
October 8: In a remarkable statement, Sen. Bob Corker, the Republican chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee ... Corker [from Tennessee] told reporters that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly “are those people that help separate our country from chaos.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/10/08/trump-attacks-gop-sen-corker-didnt-have-the-guts-to-run-for-reelection/?utm_term=.ea80d791fef7
October 10: White House insiders paint a grim picture of Trump's increasingly volatile behavior
http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-behavior-in-white-house-bob-corker-tillerson-tweets-feuds-2017-10
November 30: Trump's behavior raises questions of competency - CNNPolitics
Donald Trump potentially has millions of lives in his hands as the threat of a devastating war with North Korea swiftly escalates.
Yet the President of the United States is raising new questions about his temperament, his judgment and his understanding of the resonance of his global voice and the gravity of his role with a wild sequence of insults, inflammatory tweets and bizarre comments.
https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/29/politics/president-donald-trump-competency/index.html
-- 2018 --
January 9: What Trump Really Felt While Singing The Anthem, According To A Body Language Expert
President Trump was mocked Monday night for seemingly not knowing the words to "The Star Spangled Banner." At the College Football Playoff National Championship game in Atlanta, GA, Trump mouthed parts of the anthem — though it wasn't clear what he was actually singing.
And while the world is debating whether the president knows or doesn't know the lyrics to the national anthem, his body language revealed something more: He was nervous. That's according to nonverbal communication and human behavior expert Patti Wood, who told Refinery29 that Trump's body language pointed to the fact that he was in a stressful situation.
https://www.refinery29.com/2018/01/187391/president-trump-national-anthem-lyrics-body-language
January 12: Obama to Trump: Watch Your Behavior
http://www.newsweek.com/obama-trump-watch-your-behavior-779523
January 23: Whether you are a Republican, Democrat or some other party (or no party at all!), ask yourself this: Why did the personal lawyer to the President of the United States pay a porn star, who alleges a sexual relationship with Trump, $130,000 just before the 2016 election?
Under any circumstances, that would be somewhat fishy. Given the timing and proximity to the 2016 election, it's a whole lot more than somewhat fishy
[... the question is] not whether Trump had a sexual relationship with Daniels. It's: If Trump didn't have a sexual relationship with Daniels then why did Cohen set up a private company to send a six-figure payment to Daniels during the heat of the election?
http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/23/politics/pence-stormy-daniels-cnn/?iid=ob_lockedrail_bottomlist
January 24: President Trump’s behavior has made questions about his mental fitness unavoidable. Between his Twitter outbursts, his conspiracy-mongering, and his obsession with disparaging his critics, it’s becoming impossible to report on the Trump administration without mentioning concerns about the president’s stability. And according to recent reports, similar concerns are being raised inside the White House, where even aides question Trump’s ability to understand the world around him and make good decisions.
https://www.vox.com/videos/2018/1/24/16928388/strikethrough-trump-mental-fitness-goldwater-rule
January 25: Evangelicals Are Willing to Overlook Trump's Behavior
They embrace Trump the policymaker, despite being uneasy about Trump as a man, says Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, a prominent evangelical activist group.
Perkins knows about Stormy Daniels, the porn actress who claimed, in a 2011 interview, that in 2006 she had sex with Trump four months after his wife, Melania, gave birth to their son, Barron. He knows of the reports that Daniels (real name: Stephanie Clifford) was paid off to keep the affair quiet in the waning weeks of the 2016 election. He knows about the cursing, the lewdness and the litany of questionable behavior over the past year of Trump's life or the 70 that came before it.
https://www.realclearreligion.org/2018/01/25/evangelicals_are_willing_to_overlook_trump039s_behavior_279074.html
January 28: The Alternative Explanation For Trump’s ‘Collusion’ Behavior: He’s Innocent
Consider it for a moment. What if Donald Trump had nothing whatsoever to do with any nefarious activities related to collusion, conspiracy, or cooperation with Russia?
http://thefederalist.com/2018/01/29/alternative-explanation-trumps-collusion-behavior-hes-innocent/
January 29: Kochs Warm to Trump Policies, Not Behavior
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/01/29/kochs_warm_to_trump_policies_not_behavior_136122.html
January 30: [Dr. Ronny Jackson] Navy Doctor’s Comment Raises Concerns About Trump’s Behavior ... Ambien Use Could Contribute to His Slurred Speech and Forgetfulness
Attorney Susan Chana Lask, who has represented people in lawsuits against the manufacturer of Ambien, said the drug could explain some of Trump’s long history of erratic behavior, tweets and slurred speech.
Conservative commentator Michael Levy has speculated that Trump’s insomnia could be the result of a dangerous mixing of Ambien with an amphetamine.
“Amphetamines cause lack of impulse control, irritability, inability to control temper, and unbalanced hyper-focus on certain subjects which borders on obsession,” Levy opined on the social media network Quora. “A person on amphetamines can exhibit exactly the type of bizarre behavior we see in Trump.”
https://www.dcreport.org/2018/01/30/navy-doctors-comment-raises-concerns-about-trumps-behavior/
February 9: Will the Economy Trump the President’s Behavior?
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/02/trump-ratings-up-despite-ongoing-scandal/
February 13: GOP official resigns in Michigan: I could 'no longer remain silent' about Trump ... The chairman of the Republican Party in Bay County, Mich., announced last week he was resigning from his position, saying he could "no longer remain silent" about President Trump.
"I have not seen a leader, I've only seen more of the same," Brandon DeFrain, who has served in his post since 2014, wrote in a Facebook post, according to MLive.
He said he has seen more racism in the streets, on social media and in schools and more hatred between family members.
"I'm tired of attempting to defend a machine that does not defend the people I love," he wrote.
DeFrain said he hasn't talked much about the current state of political affairs in the past because he "believed in giving our leaders a chance."
http://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/373572-chairman-of-bay-county-republican-party-resigns-i-could-no-longer-remain
February 19: Trump Is Actually Having a Positive Effect on America's Young ...
We learn by example, both what to do and what not to do. Sometimes we misinterpret signals and admire something we should deplore or vice versa. But with enough repetition, most of us get it right.
That’s why President Donald Trump’s inane behavior, in some ways, is probably good for us. When you look at a tweet like the one he sent Saturday night blaming the Florida shooting on the FBI’s investigation of his campaign’s possible collusion with Russia, your only reaction is “what a schmuck.” On one hand, to have a president with the intellect and maturity of a seven year old is embarrassing—and dangerous. On the other hand, he’s a great, shining, as-public-as-can-be example of exactly how not to behave.
http://observer.com/2018/02/trump-is-actually-having-a-positive-effect-on-americas-young/
February 26: The Reality TV President: Is Trump’s behavior changing the office of the president?
https://news.vanderbilt.edu/vanderbiltmagazine/the-reality-tv-president-is-trumps-behavior-changing-the-office-of-the-president/
February 26: Ivanka Trump: Some queries about dad’s behavior ‘inappropriate’
The first daughter says she believes Donald Trump’s denials of inappropriate behavior with women.
https://www.newsday.com/news/nation/donald-trump-ivanka-trump-1.16968542
March 7: Finding Common Threads In Trump Cabinet Members' 'Unethical Behavior'
There's a scandal in the Trump administration. Not the one that special counsel Robert Mueller is investigating, but one involving several of Trump's Cabinet officials and their use of taxpayer funds.
https://www.npr.org/2018/03/07/591745726/finding-common-threads-in-trump-cabinet-members-unethical-behavior
March 11: Pennsylvania Speech Shows Again that Trump Wants to Be a Dictator
The Donald Trump Show traveled to Moon Township, PA, on Saturday night in support of Republican state Rep. Rick Saccone ahead of a special congressional election on Tuesday. But as is usually the case with this president, the speech ended up being about Donald Trump and his insane ideas.
In a speech lasting just over an hour, Trump’s dictatorial tendencies, raging narcissism, and blatant bigotry were on full display. Unmentioned, however, were the encroaching special counsel investigation into possible collusion with Russia to disrupt the 2016 election and other crimes, and a sex scandal involving a shady hush money payoff to a porn star by Trump’s personal lawyer.
https://splinternews.com/pennsylvania-speech-shows-again-that-trump-wants-to-be-1823681290
March 13: Tillerson ouster shows Trump is unleashed ... President Donald Trump's firing of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is the latest move in an audacious power play designed to build a governing team in his own image and to purge restraints that have tempered his brazen, impulsive instincts.
Weeks of staff departures in the West Wing, with the prospect of more to come, and days of turmoil and chaotic governance have left Trump more solitary than ever before, but also offer space for him to give his disruptive, nonconformist impulses free rein.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/13/politics/donald-trump-rex-tillerson-firing-mike-pompeo/index.html
March 17: If you wanted to tell the story of an entire Presidency in a single tweet, you could try the one that President Trump posted after Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired Andrew McCabe, the deputy director of the F.B.I., on Friday night.
On Twitter: Andrew McCabe FIRED, a great day for the hard working men and women of the FBI - A great day for Democracy. Sanctimonious James Comey was his boss and made McCabe look like a choirboy. He knew all about the lies and corruption going on at the highest levels of the FBI!
@realDonaldTrump
... Every sentence violates norms established by Presidents of both parties. Every sentence displays the pettiness and the vindictiveness of a man unsuited to the job he holds.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/donald-trump-and-the-craven-firing-of-andrew-mccabe
April 2: Female Trump Supporter: Let's Look At Policies, Not Private Behavior
http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2018/04/02/female-trump-supporter-stormy-daniels
April 3: Late-Night Hosts Scrutinize Trump's Bizarre Easter Behavior
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/late-night-hosts-scrutinize-trumps-bizarre-easter-behavior-1099209
April 10: Former White House Counsel Jack Quinn tells Ari Melber, “it’s just weird” that Trump is more concerned about the FBI raid on Michael Cohen than “anything that’s come out about Russia”.
https://www.msnbc.com/the-beat-with-ari-melber/watch/fmr-wh-cofmr-wh-counsel-trump-s-behavior-is-just-weird-uncil-trump-s-behavior-is-just-weird-1207841347630
May 1: Just 9 percent very surprised by Trump's behavior in office.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/just-9-percent-very-surprised-by-trumps-behavior-in-office-poll/ar-AAwATqK
May 2: Trump, not his doctor, wrote glowing 2015 letter on his health, physician now says
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/05/02/trump-dictated-glowing-health-report-his-doctor-gave-mediathat-trump-dictated-glowing-rump-doctor-sa/572038002/
May 2: Donald Trump's former doctor has said he did not write a 2015 letter declaring the then-Republican presidential candidate's "astonishingly excellent" health, US media report.
"[Mr Trump] dictated that whole letter," Harold Bornstein told CNN.
The White House has not yet commented on the physician's allegation.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43970908
May 9: Trump lawyer Michael Cohen's behavior at the very least 'looks corrupt': Watchdog group
The behavior of Trump's attorney Michael Cohen is suspect, but it's not known yet if anything illegal happened, watchdog Noah Bookbinder says.
Cohen was paid millions of dollars in "consulting" fees by corporations allegedly seeking access to the president or insight into his thought process.
"At the very least it looks corrupt and like the kind of conduct we don't want here in Washington," Bookbinder says.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/09/trump-lawyer-michael-cohens-behavior-looks-corrupt-watchdog-group.html
May 11: Trashed by Trump: Kirstjen Nielsen joins long list of staffers mistreated by the president
Trump's pattern of abusive behavior can be traced all the way back to his days on the presidential campaign trail. As former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and former top aide David Bossie wrote in a book last year about working for the Trump campaign:
"Sooner or later, everybody who works for Donald Trump will see a side of him that makes you wonder why you took a job with him in the first place. His wrath is never intended as any personal offense, but sometimes it can be hard not to take it that way. The mode that he switches into when things aren't going his way can feel like an all-out assault; it'd break most hardened men and women into little pieces. "
https://www.salon.com/2018/05/11/trashed-by-trump-kirstjen-nielsen-joins-long-list-of-staffers-mistreated-by-the-president/
May 30: There were a few different ways President Donald Trump could have gone with his response to the firing of Roseanne Barr by ABC after the comedian made a racist comment about former Obama administration official Valerie Jarrett.
He could have:
1. Condemned Roseanne for her views
2, Supported her as a victim of the liberal media and the PC police
3. Made it about himself
Surprise! He went with option three
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/30/politics/trump-roseanne-analysis/
June 7: The latest Time magazine cover features an illustration of President Donald Trump gazing at a reflection of himself in which he's dressed up as a monarch, complete with jeweled crown and fur cape.
The picture is accompanied by the text: "KING ME."
In a piece about the cover posted online Thursday, Time said that it's meant to address "the political attacks launched by the White House on Robert Mueller."
http://money.cnn.com/2018/06/07/media/time-magazine-cover-president-trump/index.html
July 2: Madeleine Albright [who served during the administration of President Bill Clinton] brands Trump 'the most undemocratic president in modern American history'
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-madeleine-albright-trump-20180702-story.html
September 24: [From "why do people love -or hate- Trump? Here Are The 20 Top Reasons "]
6. He’s rude and mean.
At a time when our country is being ripped apart by hatred and division, when people can’t even talk to one another anymore because of political differences and we definitely need an kind an compassionate person who brings us all together with grace and wisdom, we get the equivalent of a teenager who farts loudly in class and thinks it’s funny. He makes jokes about the disabled and the underprivileged and the oppressed and basically anyone who’s had a harder life than he has.
https://thoughtcatalog.com/jeremy-london/2018/07/why-do-people-hate-trump/
October 2: Trump mocks Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford at campaign rally
After saying last week that her Senate testimony was "very credible," the president on Tuesday night repeatedly ridiculed the woman who says she was attacked.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/trump-mocks-christine-blasey-ford-mississippi-campaign-rally-n916061
October 2: The audience laughed as Trump ran through a list of what he described as holes in Christine Blasey Ford's testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee. She testified that Kavanaugh pinned her on a bed, tried to take off her clothes and covered her mouth in the early 1980s, when the two were teenagers. Kavanaugh has denied Ford's allegations.
"How did you get home? 'I don't remember,'" Trump said at the rally in Southaven. "How did you get there? 'I don't remember.' Where is the place? 'I don't remember.' How many years ago was it? 'I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.'"
Imitating Ford, he added, "But I had one beer — that's the only thing I remember."
https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/in-mississippi-trump-mocks-fords-claims-against-kavanaugh
October 12: Trump: 'We’ve learned how to live with' the 'fake news' med
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/411227-trump-weve-learned-how-to-live-with-the-fake-news-media
October 23: A woman flying from Houston to Albuquerque on Sunday had just settled into her seat and fallen asleep when she was awoken by an unwanted touch — a hand from behind her grabbing the right side of her breast. And the man authorities say is responsible allegedly cited U.S. President Donald Trump’s past lewd language about women.
Federal prosecutors allege the hand belonged to 49-year-old Bruce Michael Alexander from Tampa, Florida, another passenger on the Southwest Airlines flight, who reportedly told authorities after being arrested Sunday that “the President of the United States says it’s ok to grab women by their private parts,” according to a criminal complaint.
https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2018/10/23/man-accused-of-groping-woman-on-flight-invokes-trumps-example.html
-- 2019 --
February 6: Pelosi warns Trump about making 'threats' against Congress
Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., asked what's the president "afraid of"?
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/pelosi-warns-trump-about-making-threats-against-congress-n968436?cid=referral_taboolafeed
May 26: The President of the United States is erratic, illiterate, and doesn’t want to know what he doesn’t know. The President has alienated former allies, befriended or courted murderous dictators, and has repeatedly brought the country to the brink of nuclear confrontation. The President lies constantly, knows that he is lying, and demands that Administration officials lie for him, and often they do. The President has waged war on the institutions of government, overseeing the gutting of the State Department and the destruction of other federal agencies by their own leaders, and effectively shut off media access to the Pentagon, the State Department, and the White House. The President has acted to thwart oversight of the Administration by other branches of government. The President has never made a secret of despising the government itself: he has called it a “swamp” and gleefully shut it down for thirty-five days, during a temper tantrum. The President has not only failed to divest himself of his businesses but has installed his children in and near the White House, openly using his office for personal financial gain. The President has debased political culture and language, using his bully pulpit to spew lies, hate, and personal insults
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/how-nancy-pelosis-tactics-affirm-the-trumpian-style-of-politics
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