Quote Originally Posted by Sidehatch:
Well, judging by the fact that Biden doesn’t have a laundry list of ex-staffers calling him an idiot certainly does differentiate him from Trump. Occam’s Razor suggests the simplest answer is the right one - which is that people who worked for Trump think he’s an idiot, and people who worked for Biden do not think he’s an idiot. So there’s that. One old axiom that would have served Trump well is, “If you look around a room and think everyone there is an a**hole, then you’re an a**hole.”
You have White Staffers yanking Biden away from reporters questions. Biden saying "I might get in trouble" when refusing questions and staffers making sure he reads from teleprompters.
As far as exstaffers; Author Chris Whipple claims in “The Fight of His Life” that when the then-78-year-old president told the media that “there’s going to be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of an embassy” after American troops leave Afghanistan, a White House staffer cringed after hearing the remark.
That’s a dumb thing to say, he thought, because we fly helicopters from the embassy every day,” Whipple writes in his book.
The comment indeed came back to haunt Biden as a photo was snapped on Aug. 15, 2021, of a US military Chinook helicopter evacuating US Embassy staff from Kabul as the Taliban took control of the capital city.
Jeff Connaughton, a Biden Senate staffer, wrote;
But if you just worked your [butt] off for him for a few years, he ignored you, intimidated you, sometimes humiliated you, took no interest in your advancement, and never learned your name.
“Hey, Chief,” he’d say, or “How’s it going, Cap’n,” unless he was ticked at you, in which case he’d employ one of his favorite terms for male underlings: “dumb fuck.”
“Dumb fuck over here didn’t get me the briefing materials I needed.” It was both noun and adjective: “Is the event leader a Democrat or a Republican? Or are you too dumb fuck to know?”
Axios July 2023;
- The president's admonitions include: "God dammit, how the fuck don't you know this?!," "Don't fucking bullshit me!" and "Get the fuck out of here!" — according to current and former Biden aides who have witnessed and been on the receiving end of such outbursts.
If you look around a room and think everyone there is a dumb fuck, then you’re the dumbfuck.