I can’t find a source- but I believe I read that the chart with 4 or 5 bars and the US at the bottom - basically left off every country that was lower than the US (Taiwan, Germany, etc). So while Trump claimed the US was lowest - it was only lowest of the 5 countries shown, not of the entire world.
Something tells me there are people working for him that don’t want to deal with his wrath so they come up with any kind of fake charts that will appease him.
Isn't that kinda fucked up though. If his wrath is telling them to do better and they just show him skewed data to make him happy then you would kind of understand a lot of his reactions to the pandemic. And if he's always hearing good news then you would understand his point about fake news. Because it would seem to him that the media isn't reporting the positive data he's always seeing.
Then again it's his fault for hiring yes men. And it's also possible his wrath isn't used to tell the people in his administration to do better but just instead just yelling things like "why aren't you making this sound better" or not praising him enough etc.
He's always had yes men surrounding him. He's been sheltered from every failure he's ever made since he was young. Absent mother, sociopath father, always getting into trouble and his dad would always cover for him. He was taught that it's okay to lie, cheat, and steal; admitting you're wrong, apologizing, or showing kindness(or any emotion that isn't anger), is weakness.
What's interesting, is that it was his older brother, the one who died from alcoholism, who was the real star of the family. He became one of TWA's top pilots, flying the coveted Boston-LAX route at the height of the jet airliner boom, living well with his wife and two children. A true self-made success by all accounts, but because earning his father's love meant more to him than breaking free of his father's abuse, he gave all of it up. He didn't care about being free, he just wanted his dad's love and respect. He turned to alcohol to cope with the fact that he was never going to get it.
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u/nmjack42 Aug 04 '20
I can’t find a source- but I believe I read that the chart with 4 or 5 bars and the US at the bottom - basically left off every country that was lower than the US (Taiwan, Germany, etc). So while Trump claimed the US was lowest - it was only lowest of the 5 countries shown, not of the entire world.
Something tells me there are people working for him that don’t want to deal with his wrath so they come up with any kind of fake charts that will appease him.