Tag: Trump temper

Trump seethed at ‘ultimate betrayal’ after Netanyahu congratulated Biden on 2020 win: report

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Former President Donald Trump was reportedly enraged last year when then-Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tweeted out congratulations to President Joe Biden on his victory in the 2020 election.

Forward reports that journalist Michael Wolff’s new book, titled “Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency,” claims that Trump felt personally betrayed by Netanyahu’s call, even though it is custom for American allies to congratulate incoming presidents on their victories.

“It was startling to aides, however much they were anticipating an eruption, that Trump’s wrath fell on Bibi Netanyahu,” Wolff writes, according to Forward. “There was his belief that he had singularly done more for Israel than any American president — and that therefore he was owed. And now sold out.” Continue reading.

‘Very, very ugly ending’: CNN’s Wolf Blitzer is stunned as Trump storms out of press briefing

AlterNet logoCNN’s Wolf Blitzer was stunned at the end of White House’s press briefing on Thursday, which concluded when President Donald Trump had a petty tiff with two female reporters.

“A very, very ugly ending to that one-hour appearance by the president,” Blitzer commented as Trump stormed out.

The dispute began when CBS News’ Weijia Jiang asked the president why he was so focused on the United States’ supposedly superiority at coronavirus testing. Continue reading.

Rule 1 at the G7 Meeting? Don’t Get You-Know-Who Mad

New York Times logoBIARRITZ, France — For a day, at least, everyone was on their best behavior when the cameras were on, eager to present a show of bonhomie after so many previous meetings ended in discord.

But behind the scenes at the annual gathering of some of the world’s leading powers, President Trump still found himself at odds with his counterparts on Sunday over issues like trade, climate change, North Korea, Russia and Iran.

Ever so gingerly, as if determined not to rouse the American’s well-known temper, the other Group of 7 leaders sought to nudge him toward their views on the pressing issues of the day, or at least register their differences — while making sure to wrap them in a French crepe of flattery, as they know he prefers.

View the complete August 25 article by Peter Baker on The New York Times website here.

WATCH: The biographer Trump attacked as a ‘loser’ reveals what ‘set him off’

AlterNet logoPresident Donald Trump lashed out a journalist in an after-midnight tweet — and the target of the presidential attack believes he knows why.

Journalist Tim O’Brien, the executive editor of Bloomberg Opinion, authored the 2005 biography TrumpNation: The Art of Being the Donald. He was interviewed Wednesday evening on MSNBC’s “The 11th Hour” with Brian Williams.

“Just watched a world-class loser, Tim O’Brien, who I haven’t seen or spoken to in many years, & knows NOTHING about me except that he wrote a failed hit piece book about me 15 years ago,” Trump tweeted twenty minutes after midnight.

View the complete August 9 article by Bob Brigham from Raw Story on the AlterNet website here.