The Trumps have spent exactly zero percent of their lives caring about anyone other than themselves. Joy Reid Read Quote
Trump is a big businessman. He’s your boss or CEO, not one of your brothers on the line. Joy Reid Read Quote
I’ve written before that the president is our national avatar – a stand-in for what we believe we are, or want to be. Joy Reid Read Quote
We Americans think quite highly of ourselves, and nothing makes us think more of ourselves than our romantic view of our presidents. Joy Reid Read Quote
Trump is beset by clear and alarming conflicts between his international business concerns and the national interest. Joy Reid Read Quote
Americans have, at various times, leaned on the FBI for a measure of justice that local and state police couldn’t be counted on to deliver, and recoiled in fear at their exercise of raw federal power. That uneasy trust; the combination of need and dread, is the lot that FBI agents live with day to day. Joy Reid Read Quote
It is uncomfortable in the extreme for people, and particularly for members of the press, to confront the notion that a president could be so far outside the bounds of tradition that he must be treated differently from his predecessors. Joy Reid Read Quote
The presidency is, in many ways, America’s comment on itself; our collective national costume. In the occupant of our sole nationwide elected office, we see who we think we are, or who we want to be. Joy Reid Read Quote
