Posted on 10/14/2018 6:34:19 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot
The New York billionaire seems unable to comfort the nation in times of tragedy or celebrate its moments of triumph.
It is a poignant paradox of Donald Trump’s ubiquitous presidency—all tweets, all the time—that a leader who prides himself as omnipresent in digital public discourse is so often absent from national life in the hundred human ways in which the country has come to expect its presidents to perform.
Latest case in point: After Hurricane Michael devastated parts of Florida’s Panhandle, Trump played host at the White House to Kanye West, who—in a ten-minute monologue in the Oval Office—dropped the F-bomb and praised Trump’s “Make American Great Again” cap as a hyper-masculine talisman that made him feel “like a guy that could play catch with his son.”
But think about it: Have we ever seen Trump play catch with his own 12-year-old son, Barron? Without question, the president dotes on his children, especially his daughter, Ivanka. But he's an absentee father to the nation, or at least a majority of the nation. There have been no warm and fuzzy photos of Trump shopping for books or gifts, as Barack Obama and Bill Clinton did with their daughters. No images of him poring over a photo album, as Abraham Lincoln famously did with his son Tad, or tending his stamp collection, as FDR did. No visible evidence of the easy relaxation with friends and family that has become a standard part of presidential iconography.
(snip) Trump can’t readily cheer the nation in moments of triumph (championship sports teams boycott his White House). He doesn’t tenderly comfort the nation in times of tragedy (he tosses paper towels to hurricane victims, and does a double fist pump on the anniversary of 9-11). He doesn’t read books, talk movies or go to the theater, ...
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The paradox the left doesn’t want to face is Trump is WINNING despite every effort by the RINOs and the libtards to stop him.
He doesn’t want a daddy figure. The author wants a King-god. Like Obama. To fill the dark empty corners of his sad lonely atheistic existence.
He’s absentee alright, out three or four days a week campaigning to save this country from the democrat mob. This twit author can only dream that DJT would have been absentee like Barry who would have compassionately found the nearest operating golf course to the Florida Panhandle. Once Trump increases his congressional majorities he’ll show this guy “absenteeism “ over a the next six years.
“Until late 2005, Purdum was a reporter and the Los Angeles bureau chief for The New York Times. From 1994 to 1997, he was a White House correspondent for the Times. He is now the national editor for Vanity Fair magazine.”
Nuff said
He wants a paycheck for his “writing”, at this point they have to make up problems because they have nothing else.
But, but-—we want a President who knows how to FEEL our pain, and not ACT to relieve it! /s
Guess all those rallies are not interaction with America. You really have to be braindead to be a reporter.
Bingo!
America sensed both it, and the Republican party needed a "street fighter". A fighter, unlike the then-current president, that was interested in winning in global marketplace and on the global political stage.
Such a male doesn't ordinarily frighten females but does bother snowflake males and the political left.
Purdum is married to Dee Dee Meyers, Press Secretary to former Pres. Bill Clinton...
Trump accomplishes more in his sleep than retarded Libs (oxymoron) do in their lifetimes.
Journalism is a good occupational choice for those unqualified to be educators.
I don't need him to do either. He's the Chief Executive, not Chief Babysitter.
This is the Establishment Media (aka Mainstream Media or MSM) of 2018. 
Vandal Savage had a great origin story. He was a cro-magnon man whose exposure to a meteor made him nearly immortal. Just by being alive he learned a lot and eventually helped the out Genghis Khan, Napoleon, etc. knowing and immense amount, especially history, but embracing evil.
They will wish he was absentee when he releases all of the redacted documents a week before the elections. He will redefine the term “October Surprise “.
We need a mommy and Trump won’t be one!
yeah, right...
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