Newsom and Epstein must really be getting under his skin
It doesn’t take a psychiatrist. Trump’s frequent use of “strongly,” his fondness for dominance displays and demands of public submission from underlings, and his fawning over international stongmen springs from deep insecurity. Reactionary insecurity when he’s stressed.
But the Smithsonian? (CNN):
In a Truth Social post, Trump directed his attorneys to conduct a review of museums, comparing the effort to his crackdown on universities across the country.
“The Smithsonian is OUT OF CONTROL, where everything discussed is how horrible our Country is, how bad Slavery was, and how unaccomplished the downtrodden have been — Nothing about Success, nothing about Brightness, nothing about the Future,” Trump wrote.
He really must be losing sleep at night. “Nothing about Success, nothing about Brightness, nothing about the Future”? Right.
Trump’s comments come days after the White House announced an unprecedented, sweeping review of the Smithsonian Institution, which runs the nation’s major public museums. The initiative, a trio of top Trump aides wrote in a letter to Smithsonian Institution secretary Lonnie Bunch III last week, “aims to ensure alignment with the President’s directive to celebrate American exceptionalism, remove divisive or partisan narratives, and restore confidence in our shared cultural institutions.”
How insecure is the man? More insecure in his second term than in his first:
Trump has previously praised the Smithsonian museums, including the National Museum of African American History and Culture, which he toured during his first term as president.
“I’m deeply proud that we now have a museum that honors the millions of African American men and women who built our national heritage, especially when it comes to faith, culture and the unbreakable American spirit,” Trump said during remarks at the museum in February 2017. Later that month, Trump said the museum “tells of the great struggle for freedom and equality that prevailed against the sins of slavery and the injustice of discrimination.”
But that was before two impeachments, 34 felony convictions, and two separate jury verdicts against him in the E. Jean Carroll lawsuit. Plus, demands by his own cult for release of the Jeffrey Epstein files and relentless mockery by Gavin Newsom.
Parts of Trump must be vanishing like a frightened turtle.
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