Brinkley: Nothing Else Like Trump's 'Cavernous Stupidity' In U.S. History | The 11th Hour | MSNBC

Can you sneak it in that every time the president sends something we can trust it to ring if he's not joking of course he's the founder of Isis he's the founder of Isis so I said founder of Ice obviously to be sarcastic , WikiLeaks, I love WikiLeaks? and I say it jokingly in his speech joking I don't know anything about WikiLeaks don't worry about that baby I love babies though I love babies I hear that baby crying I like it actually I was just joking you can get the baby out of here talk and his people sit at attention I want my people to do the same I'm kidding you don't understand I'm the one it was sarcasm it was a joke we're all smiling and I haven't He touched my face in weeks Trump administration officials spend much of it of their time delicately handling the boss and are often forced to react in real time when he goes off script, putting them in the position of cleaning up to refute his misinformation or attempt to defend him, former special presidential envoy Brett McGurk He described his time in the White House this way: When you're in high-level decision-making circles, there's something called the effectiveness trap when you have a leader like President Trump to be effective.

I need to be in the room and in the circle, but to be in the room and in the circle, you somehow sometimes need to muzzle your live recommendations to fight another day. There is a term that came out of the Vietnam experience and I really feel the disgusting cheese and dr. Burke says we need you on the wall right now again with us tonight Eugene Robinson Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The Washington Post and we're so happy to have back with us Doug Brinkley, presidential historian and author and quarantine reading list four years old, his latest book and I have them all, John F.

Kennedy's trip to the American moon and the great space race has just been published in paperback, gentlemen, good evening to you and Doug. I have to start with you because in the last segment we just heard a doctor from Columbia tell our politically absent audience don't follow the advice that the president gave the last 24

hour

s we heard adults say don't pay attention to what the president said President, are there any parallels in any of your reading and writing about American

history

?

nothing

like Trump's

cavernous

stupidity

oh He's done it a lot since the crisis broke out in the '19 crisis, but the idea of ​​telling people to inject themselves or use disinfectants and to take them and have the company Lysol has to go and say please don't do that and all the doctors. all over the country today they have to do a kind of cleanup for Trump some stupid comment it was not sarcasm it was ignorance he takes information from someone he distills it he expresses it wrongly and then it goes on television and in reality it is almost impossible to see his actions and the White House some press conferences, but he still has money and power, so people have to tune in.

It's unfortunate that we don't get to hear some of the governor's talks about what they're doing in his states. Now he always has to be doing Donald Klump. Donald Trump's cleanup job, although interesting, governors have become what they were meant to be and that is that governors, the local leaders who run their states, Eugene, about the particular hell and the unique conundrum of the people , especially the adults around the president, you and I talk. There's a lot of talk about this with people like General Mattis, they talk about what they're facing now, well, they're facing the unique danger and specter of Donald Trump.

I mean, we've never had, if that's so, there's never been a president like this is he's stubborn he's irrational he's immune to new information often when he decides he knows something even if he doesn't know it he's decided that he knows it so so much so it has to be and that's what I have everyone has to pretend that it has to be yesterday it was just a disaster it was horrible to hear you recommend injecting disinfectants and and you talk about some method of introducing ultraviolet light into your body do you know if there is some kind of Potential bright spot In what was otherwise a really bleak week, he didn't answer questions at his briefing today and perhaps the experience of becoming the subject of ridicule and derision around the world because of yesterday's comment has soured him on the idea. coming out of the closet every day. and take two

hour

s of questions, so if that's the case, then that's something we take away from this week.

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