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Janet's avatar

He doesn’t take advice well—except lots of bad crap—unless he’s cornered. Perhaps that happened in his office or they appealed to his ego with flattery which he responds to so well. I believe I read that flattery was a main means of the aid’s success in getting him on board.

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Richard S.'s avatar

I don't really believe anything that's been printed about him, but it's obvious that at some point he lost touch with his base. I don't know if it was Bannon or someone else that was guiding him to the populist firebrand takes, but by the time he left office, he was obviously much less in touch with his supporters.

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Potatodots's avatar

No, he hasn't lost touch with his bas. He stopped bragging on the WARP Speed thing because he was booed very hard at rallies. His political handlers though - the biggest problem with his admin was all the infiltrators and they mobbed in and stuck wrenches in everything. It is amazing he got as much done as he did. He was thoroughly Stockholmed in 2020 no thanks to Jared et al, and his natural loyalty to Cippolone who got through the impeachment mess and others. Barr slow and no-walked many of the EOs. Trump expected people to carry out things as they did in his businesses, but the swamp isn't that way and he was infiltrated and those people - OMG. Trump delegated to people he thought could be trusted but too many were owned and the others were overwhelmed trying to figure out appointees and didn't have the savviness to sift them. They wanted to look efficient and fast. BIG mistake. Then the Stockholming cabal put as many obstacles as they could to keep Trump's best and savvy friends from getting to him. They blocked people even when Trump made appointments. Look how much Lindell went through to get 5 minutes with Trump and Trump wanted him there. Meadows failed him terribly. I am so disgusted with him. The head of Endorsements is a woman who ran Democrat campaigns. Not good. Some of the endorsements deliberately ignored America First candidates because they are America First candidates. You are absolutely right - Trump has to say he was swayed and wrongly so. Trump love America so much, and Americans so much he would do ANYTHI to save them, and that is what the functional psychopaths and the globohomopedo cabal and Establishment used against him - Trump's strength is his weakness at the same time and they set him up for it.

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HardeeHo's avatar

A good analysis. Trump is a person as we all are and not infallible. He was betrayed by Ryan early on with the tax cuts allowed excess for the rich. He ought to a forced things with a veto, but he caved too often. As you note he had an awful lot of opposition from his own team.

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Jerms 9654's avatar

Bannon got him elected, he should have stuck with him IMO.

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RD's avatar

He was wrapped up in a straight jacket - all it took was the entire globe blaming him for covid daily and Jan 6

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pbow's avatar

Is it that Trump "doesn't take advice well", as in suggesting that Trump didn't take advice "well" from all the highly credentialed, highly paid, bureaucratic health experts on the high level pay grades of our federal government, or is it that he didn't take advice well, from all the public health experts Trump had during that time frame that were recommending against the vaccine, such as.....who? Recall how Fauci guaranteed us that it was a "one shot and done" scenario, and how all the "experts" and the MSM were touting how all we had to do was take the vaccine and our lives would return to normal? That advice?

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