Donald Trump’s presidency defies the laws of political gravity in every way, just as the campaign before it did. We heard him say, “Grab ’em by the pussy”; we heard him say, “I like people who don’t get captured” in reference to John McCain, who was tortured for more than five years as a prison of war; we heard him say “very good people on both sides” about a racist and anti-Semitic rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
President Donald Trump talks to reporters at Andrews Air Force Base after attending a campaign rally in Latrobe, Pennsylvania.Credit:Evan Vucci, AP
And yet he paid no political price.
So we should not be surprised that the spectacle has continued during his presidency. But this past week, even by Trump standards, was a political debacle of some proportion. The Atlantic magazine published a story detailing the President’s contempt for those serving in the US military; it was so shocking that other news outlets rushed to investigate – and most of its particulars were confirmed, even at the President’s own favoured outlet, Fox News. Such attitudes must have been dismaying even to the most loyal MAGA (Make America Great Again) supporter of the President.
And now there is a new book by Bob Woodward, Rage, excerpts of which were released on Thursday. Woodward interviewed the President extensively, on tape. The initial big scoop: Trump confided in Woodward back in February about the coronavirus, displaying specific understanding of how severe the coming outbreak was going to be and how it might be spread in the air – and yet he spent weeks and months in public downplaying its risks to the public and refusing to advise his constituents to wear masks.
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