those who don t like donald trump, it s more confirmation of their dislike. those who like him never had the illusion that this was in his personal life, an exemplary person. one of them tells me a year and a half ago. i said who are you electing? he said a junk yard dog. they saw it as donald trump s job to go in there and destabilize and be rough. access hollywood, that tape proves that people, voters have discounted this. they accept the fact that he was a womanizer and that there is a vulgarian in the oval office. that is the person a. i do think the lying is an issue, the lying from the podium is an issue. i hate the fact that they re lying about trade deficits. they don t even he is misstating the facts on trade deficits. that s important. but i do think that transparency and honesty is something that we need to expect from our president. melania may care about this story. i do think that sometimes you know, he s already feeling isolated perhaps by his team and
done, he s defined deviancy downward. he is sordid and grotesque and vulgarian. john mentioned the 13 women who accused him of sexual harassment. that happened before the election. right. so to me, i don t want to sound cynical no, no. i think people have factored that in about him. on that point, let me put this up. ronan farrell wrote in the new yorker about another woman, a play boy model, concealing infidelity, what interests me is how there was an operation for keeping them silent the way harvey weinstein had an operation for keeping some of the women he was encountered silent. the interactions that play mate mcdugal outlined show striking similarities who had sexual relationships with trump or propositioned them for sex or harassing them. the affair is entirely
we have seen america s standing in the world seem diminished by those two things. that to me is where donald trump came from and i think those events, the wars and the crash changed the conservative base and the republican base and it s all up for grabs now and conservative intellectuals should not waist their time saying trump is a barbarian, a vulgarian, i hate him. they re saying what did we do wrong, how did we screw up, how can we wrestle from these circumstance circumstances policies that will help our country? to answer in a rather glib way, where did he come from, he came from the democratic party, he was a democrat. thank you. they don t want to hear that. they hate when you tell them that he was a life long democrat that gave more money to democ t
hear why if you look at the poll numbers, there s still 30% to 40% of americans still support him. as margaret turner wrote, trump is a vulgarian in the way he tweets and sometimes talks. however, as rich lowry wrote in national review, his presidency is better than his tweets and he has made significant progress. a shrewd reader of the new york times, obviously. but the fact is his tweets have an impact on the relationship he has with john kelly, something we ll be talking about in just a moment. on congress when he tweets he doesn t support the continuing resolution because it doesn t have a long-term financing for children s health program, when senator john cornyn, a strong republican had to say no, that s not true, it has six years funding. i mean the tweets have an impact. i think as a general matter, they re over played, but in the
of state. the head of state is a symbolic figure we don t want a authentic vulgarian head of state. this there is a certain authenticity of being a head of state representative to the world. standing there three hours without moving, doing kind of those unpleasant stagey things. i don t think anyone is disappointed he can t stand still for three hours, but we d like him not to call our allies bleep holes. there is states man ship you re describing and the disgrace that he is. every president might want to unload and go nuts when they lose their temper and go crazy. sure. and they don t because they feel the burden of world leadership on their shoulders. and the fact that he doesn t is a mark of how unfit he is running sitting in the office that has these two phases of