President Trump speaks to members of the media following a briefing on Hurricane Florence in the Oval Office on Tuesday. (ZACH GIBSON/AFP/Getty Images)An estimated 3,000 people died after the devastating Hurricane Maria ravaged Puerto Rico last year. But in the eyes of President Trump, the government’s response was a raging success — and one he touted this week as a monstrous hurricane pinwheeled toward the Carolinas. “You just never give an inch or admit any mistake in public,” said Sam Nunberg, a former aide describing Trump’s mind-set. Trump says the book is a “scam” and that his White House is a “smooth running machine.”Aides say that Trump’s tendency to focus on and defend his perceived failures is fueled by a mix of potent factors.

Source: Washington Post September 12, 2018 23:03 UTC