Donald Trump reveals he’s chasing his own tail
The author of the New York Times op-ed is still in the White House, and as far as Donald Trump knows, it could be anyone. He clearly still has no idea which of his own top officials sold him out in such stunning fashion, and he’s obsessed with trying to figure out who it was. The trouble: he just revealed that he doesn’t even understand the circumstances of how the letter got published.
The NY Times stated at the top of the op-ed that it was written by “a senior official in the Trump administration whose identity is known to us and whose job would be jeopardized by its disclosure” This makes sense, of course, as a major newspaper wouldn’t have run something this history-altering without knowing who wrote it. There’s no possible way that any competent person could have read this sentence and been left with the impression that the Times doesn’t know who wrote it. Which leads us to Donald Trump.
This evening Trump posted this tweet: “Are the investigative “journalists” of the New York Times going to investigate themselves – who is the anonymous letter writer?” There is always more than one way to interpret Trump’s semiliterate tweets, but our reading of this is that Trump is calling for the Times to launch an investigation into who wrote the letter. It’s as if the words “identity is known to us” went right over his head – or he never bothered to read them.
Not only is Donald Trump imploding as he embarks on an obsessive quest to find out which of his own top senior officials wrote this op-ed, he doesn’t even understand what’s going on here. Does Trump think that the New York Times published this letter after some unknown person slipped it under the door? Trump doesn’t have any idea what he’s up against here, and he’s clearly unequipped to figure it out.
