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Narcissism Makes Trump The Worst Coronavirus President

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4.56K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Virginia Heffernan talks to New York Times op-ed writer Jennifer Senior about her latest piece exploring the effect of Trump’s narcissism on the coronavirus crisis, a profile of narcissists’ weaknesses, and the strategy of using “yes, and” on the president in order to sneak actual facts in. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Sometimes when you're in the middle of a crisis,

0:02.6

like we are now with the coronavirus,

0:05.3

it really does have ultimately

0:08.6

shine a very bright light on some of the real weaknesses

0:12.1

and forables in our society.

0:14.3

So when all this is over and as we've said,

0:16.6

it will end, we will get over coronavirus,

0:19.8

but there will still be health disparities,

0:21.7

which we really do need to address

0:23.8

in the African-American community.

0:26.3

We have to start planning, restarting life.

0:30.3

We're not there yet, but this is not a light switch

0:34.3

that we can just select one day

0:36.3

and everything goes back to normal.

0:38.3

We're going to have to restart that economy.

0:41.3

I would follow the advice of my physician

0:44.3

and I would recommend that approach to every single one of them.

0:48.3

Okay.

0:52.3

Hello and welcome to Trumpcast.

0:54.3

I'm Virginia Heffernan.

0:55.7

As you may have heard, we are turning into a nation

0:58.6

of bakers here in America.

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