Even Donald Trump’s own advisers are faking bad phone connections so they don’t have to talk to him
It’s a headline that sounds like it should be satire, and yet as we’ve continually been reminded during this absurdist debacle of an illegitimate presidency, these kinds of things are very much indeed real. According to a United States Senator who was also on the phone conversation, one of Donald Trump’s own White House advisers faked a bad phone connection in order to get out of the phone call.
Democratic Senator Tom Carper of Delaware says that he was on the phone with White House economic adviser Gary Cohn when they both learned that Trump was about to join the call with them. They both knew the conversation would immediately go to mush, so Cohn agreed to praise Trump and then fake a bad connection so that the call could end, according to a CBS News report (link). This is just the latest sign that Trump’s top advisers – the people who know him best – think he’s mentally incompetent.
This comes just days after it was revealed that Donald Trump’s National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster had called Trump an “idiot” and a “kindergartner” behind his back. And of course Secretary of State Rex Tillerson infamously called Trump a “f—ing moron” behind his back as well. Trump has handpicked all of these people to serve as his closest and most trusted advisers, and yet they all clearly think he’s an infuriating buffoon.
This latest incident points to the heart of the problem. Gary Cohn knew he could get away with getting out of a phone call by faking a bad connection, and Donald Trump wouldn’t even catch on as long as he praised Trump before hanging up. Trump is such a narcissist that he’s instinctively surrounded himself with advisers who are ass kissers, and he’s too blind to see that they all think he’s an idiot – or a moron.
