Trump Is Throwing A Childish Tantrum Because One His Advisers Spoke Out About His Racism

Trump is tantruming and refusing to make eye contact with his top economic adviser after Gary Cohn spoke out against Trump’s comments supporting neo-Nazis and white supremacists.

The New York Times reported:

Several aides said Mr. Trump is freezing out Mr. Cohn by employing a familiar tactic: refusing to make eye contact with Mr. Cohn when his adviser greets him.

At a meeting on Thursday on infrastructure at the White House with Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York and members of Congress from New York and New Jersey, Mr. Kelly told participants that Mr. Cohn would lead the meeting. But Mr. Trump, whose most cutting insult is to pretend someone does not exist or that he barely knows them, virtually ignored him.

Refusing to make eye contact and ignoring a top adviser is not presidential behavior. What Trump is doing isn’t the behavior of a reasonable adult. A real president would confront the person that they are having a problem with. Trump could have fired Cohn. He could have talked to Cohn and learned why voicing support for racists is not a good thing.

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It is troubling that America has a president who resorts to childish tactics when confronted with conflict. Trump isn’t going to be able to tantrum his way out a conflict with a foreign leader. This is not normal or acceptable behavior for a president, and the media must not normalize it, or bury it in the last two paragraphs of a story about how Chief of Staff John Kelly is trying to bring order to the White House as The New York Times did.

The American people need a grown up president who can handle the duties of the job, not a senior citizen man child who plays school yard mind games.

Jason Easley

Jason is the managing editor. He is also a White House Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. His graduate work focused on public policy, with a specialization in social reform movements.

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