“Thank God nobody is accusing us anymore of interfering in the US elections,” Putin gloated on Wednesday at an economic forum in Moscow. He makes a perfect sucker for the former KGB spy. Vladimir Putin hit the jackpot with Trump. As Hill succinctly noted about the inability in the Trump era to separate fictional narratives from objective realities: “Our nation is being torn apart. It’s debilitating to his presidency, and the rest of us are hostages to his insecurities. He can’t get past it and it’s intensifying, playing out on the world stage, with national security implications. His presidency began with him obsessing on his inauguration crowd size and carrying around his 2016 electoral map. After climbing up in politics by putting down Barack Obama as an illegitimate president, Trump is so terrified of being seen as an illegitimate president that he acts out in ways that cause more people to see him as an illegitimate president. We have to be nice.” It was peak Trump pique. “This was not an angel, this woman, okay?” Trump sneered, adding that when he complained that the dignified and well-respected former ambassador was being treated too gently, he was told: “Well, sir, she’s a woman. (A lawyer for Yovanovitch said the portrait had been hung immediately.) Trying to justify why he had ousted and smeared the ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, he claimed that she was “an Obama person” who had refused to hang his picture in the US embassy in Kyiv. “They gave the server to CrowdStrike, or whatever it is called, which is a company owned by a very wealthy Ukrainian. “The FBI went in, and they told them, ‘Get out of here we’re not giving it to you,’” he said on Fox. No matter how many experts – including the gloriously bracing Fiona Hill – explain that it is Russia that interfered with our elections and that Russia has been scheming to deflect blame to Ukraine, Trump keeps rambling about that Democratic National Committee server. Even Steve Doocy looked a little bemused during Trump’s shambolic 54-minute call into Fox & Friends on Friday. RamblingĪs we draw closer to Trump getting a lump of coal in his Christmas stocking, with Nancy Pelosi implacably heading toward a holiday impeachment, his proditomania is revving up. He sees the world as vicious and life as a battle for survival. Trump believes that paranoia can be useful. A.Word.A.Day defined it as the feeling or belief that everyone is out to get you. As Trump himself said on Friday about it, “A lot of things are a matter with me.” But we do know the name of one severe malady the president has: proditomania. But nobody here buys that it was a spontaneous desire to do Phase One of a physical. Sound like anyone you know? Since this is a town of fevered conspiracists now, theories abound about why the president went to Walter Reed military hospital last Saturday.
Also chirocracy (a government that rules with a heavy hand) and froward (difficult to deal with or contrary).
Others included rodomont (a vain boaster), grobian (a buffoonish person) and Sinon (one who misleads and betrays). Friday’s word was vulgarian, following close after bare-knuckle. Case in point: A few weeks ago, someone signed me up for A.Word.A.Day email from. With Trump firmly lodged in our heads, it is understandable if we have all become a little conspiracy-minded. And, of course, a Sinon suffering from proditomania.