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" Apologies are very important to Donald Trump. Here are some of the ways he has asked for them:
"Apology?"
"Apologize."
"Apologize!"
"Please apologize!"
"I want an apology!"
"They should apologize."
"Will you apologize?"
"He owes apology!"
"He should apologize."
"Will he apologize?"
"He doesn't have the guts to apologize!"
"Are you man enough to apologize?"
"Why not apologize?"
"APOLOGIZE!"
The latest request for atonement goes out to Snoop Dogg, through Trump's personal attorney, Michael Cohen. On Sunday, the electronic group BADBADNOTGOOD released a music video in which the rapper points a toy gun at a clown dressed as Trump. The president did not take kindly to the mock assassination, tweeting Wednesday morning that Snoop would be facing "jail time" if he "had aimed and fired the gun at President Obama."
"It's totally disgraceful," Cohen told TMZ Live on Tuesday. "Snoop owes the president an apology."
It may seem to be a waste of the president's time to spend his energy scavenging for apologies from every last person who slights him, but this is the currency with which the outer-borough real estate developer with a chip on his shoulder trades.
He values loyalty above all else, he holds grudges, and if he feels he has been disrespected, he demands atonement. Many have compared Trump's temperament to that of a child, and this is another kindergarten lesson that he has clung to longer than Shinzo Abe's hand.
For the 70-year-old Trump, though, apologies are not about coming to any sort of mutual understanding; they are about wresting power away from adversaries.
He has very little chance of actually getting it, but by asking for it publicly he feels he can create a perception that he is owed something. It's a final, feeble attempt to secure the thing he desires more than anything else: respect. "
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/03/donald-trumps-strange-relationship-with-apologies/
"Apology?"
"Apologize."
"Apologize!"
"Please apologize!"
"I want an apology!"
"They should apologize."
"Will you apologize?"
"He owes apology!"
"He should apologize."
"Will he apologize?"
"He doesn't have the guts to apologize!"
"Are you man enough to apologize?"
"Why not apologize?"
"APOLOGIZE!"
The latest request for atonement goes out to Snoop Dogg, through Trump's personal attorney, Michael Cohen. On Sunday, the electronic group BADBADNOTGOOD released a music video in which the rapper points a toy gun at a clown dressed as Trump. The president did not take kindly to the mock assassination, tweeting Wednesday morning that Snoop would be facing "jail time" if he "had aimed and fired the gun at President Obama."
"It's totally disgraceful," Cohen told TMZ Live on Tuesday. "Snoop owes the president an apology."
It may seem to be a waste of the president's time to spend his energy scavenging for apologies from every last person who slights him, but this is the currency with which the outer-borough real estate developer with a chip on his shoulder trades.
He values loyalty above all else, he holds grudges, and if he feels he has been disrespected, he demands atonement. Many have compared Trump's temperament to that of a child, and this is another kindergarten lesson that he has clung to longer than Shinzo Abe's hand.
For the 70-year-old Trump, though, apologies are not about coming to any sort of mutual understanding; they are about wresting power away from adversaries.
He has very little chance of actually getting it, but by asking for it publicly he feels he can create a perception that he is owed something. It's a final, feeble attempt to secure the thing he desires more than anything else: respect. "
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/03/donald-trumps-strange-relationship-with-apologies/
