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Why he slipped up on Friday There’s a lot to parse from Trump’s Friday announcement to (ostensibly) declare a national emergency to divert funds to build his wall on the southern border. If you haven’t seen it, I recommend that you watch the whole thing in full; as Daniel Dale wrote on Twitter: One thing many articles and TV segments rarely convey, in my view, is how deeply bizarre some Trump appearances are. Lots of people will just hear a short clip of him saying he’s calling an emergency because there’s an invasion. It’s truly astonishing to witness the way Trump’s brain works when he’s not reading from a teleprompter; those who’ve watched his rallies will recognize the rapid changes of subject, the tone of bitter grievance, the voices (yes, he does voices), and of course the “truthful hyperbole.” One of the things he said that is being especially (and appropriately) pounced on is when he admitted, in announcing that there is a national emergency, that he didn’t need to announce a national emergency. The line you’ll often hear is this: I could do the wall over a longer period of time. I didn’t need to do this. But I’d rather do it much faster. But in context, there is something much more telling about this admission. It comes as a response to NBC reporter Peter Alexander calling into question Trump’s deal-making prowess, at the end of a long boast about how great a deal this actually was, thank you very much. Here’s the question and answer in full (emphasis mine): Alexander: In the past, when President Obama tried to use executive action as it related to immigration, you said, “The whole concept of executive order, it’s not the way the country’s supposed to be run.” You said, “You’re supposed to go through congress and make a deal.” Will you concede you were unable to make the deal you had promised in the past, and that the deal you’re ending up with now from congress is less than what you could have had [Trump: “No”] before a 35-day shutdown? Trump: Look, I went through Congress, I made a deal. I got almost 1.4 billion dollars, when I wasn’t supposed to get one dollar. Not one dollar! “He’s not gonna get one dollar!” Well, I got 1.4 billion. But I’m not happy with it.I also got billions and billions of dollars for other things: port of entries [sic], lots of other things. The purchase of drug equipment. More than we were even requesting. In fact, the primary fight was on the wall. Everything else, we have so much, as I said — I don’t know what to do with it!, we have so much money.But on the wall, they skimped. So, I was successful in that sense, but I want to do it faster. I could do the wall over a longer period of time. I didn’t need to do this. But I’d rather do it much faster. You can watch this exchange on C-SPAN. It’s only in defense of his skill as a negotiator that Trump says he “could do the wall over a longer period of time.” When he says “I didn’t need to do this,” it’s his way of saying, “I am, in fact, a master negotiator, and I could use my talents to reach a deal, but I just don’t want to.” Trump shoots himself in the foot for no reason other than that he feels his ego being threatened. He demonstrates again that his need for admiration is his greatest weakness. This, among other reasons, is why people fear him on the international stage; as Hillary Clinton put it during the election, “A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we an trust with nuclear weapons.” If he feels his ego being bruised, he lashes out in ways that are imprudent even for him; jeopardizing his legal case for the national emergency declaration is deemed acceptable (or not considered at all) in the greater mission to portray himself as a winner. The other side of this coin is that when he feels his ego being stroked, he becomes pliant and agreeable to just about anything. Just look at how his opinion of China changed after his red carpet treatment there. As Robert Reich wrote: The delicate balance in Trump’s brain between glorification and mortification can tip either way at any moment, depending on his hunches. All international relations become contests of personal dominance. Sometimes, as in the case of his emergency declaration, we reap the rewards of his clumsy dedication above all else to vainglory. We can only hope we’ll always be so lucky. Trump’s ego is (still) his greatest weakness was originally published in Extra Newsfeed on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.
