Jon Lovett
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You are powerful.
You don't need to talk this way.
You don't have to keep kind of reminding people that you're in charge.
You're in charge.
It's like Joffrey saying, I am king.
I am king.
You're in charge, my guy.
You did it.
You're the boss.
As plainly and in a straightforward way as you can, tell people what the facts are.
That's what projecting genuine strength would look like.
But these people are so...
like kind of self-pitying and insecure and on some level know that they're doing something wrong or in the wrong jobs and don't belong where they are.
So it all becomes this sort of like...
this sort of show because they don't know what to do, I guess.
I don't know.
And, you know, like he's trying to do that kind of thing.
Yeah, and the feeling he must have in these rooms with, you know, he's outmatched in every room he walks into, even places where he's meant to be in charge.
How that must feel to look at these generals in the eyes and...
Donald Trump is a short-term thinker who...