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Apeksha Bagchi

‘Say that in the mirror 100 times’: Trump’s chief puppet drops shameless lie, forgets depravity is the president’s brand

What has been consistent throughout Donald Trump’s lifetime? Lies, frauds, cons, made-up scenarios, verbal diarrhea, attacking the poor to fill the banks of the rich, misogyny? Nah, while there have been breaks in these here and there – his shockingly coherent Joe Biden post comes to mind – one thing has been the lifeline of his political regime.

Hatred. Tons of it, and he never really made an effort to hide disdain against anyone who either didn’t support him, sided with his opponents, or dared to call him and his lackeys out. In a 2012 episode of The Celebrity Apprentice, Trump remarked: “Nobody takes things more personally than me. When somebody says something personal about me, I hate them for the rest of my life. It’s probably wrong, but I hate people… I never recover from it.”

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