Ike was a sucker
by digby
That’s what Trump would say, anyway. In his mind, you never take the blame for anything that goes wrong and always seize the credit for everything that goes right. Only a sucker takes responsibility for failure.
General Dwight Eisenhower’s handwritten note before D-Day saying that if the landings fail, the "blame or fault…is mine alone”—75 years ago this week: pic.twitter.com/XBdYPJyBTT— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) June 2, 2019
A real hero would proclaim victory before it even begins and then whine and snivel like a three-year-old, blaming everyone but himself, if it goes wrong.
.