"One difficulty of a presidency as volatile as Donald Trump's is separating what makes him angry (almost everything) from what genuinely, revealingly enrages him what sends him round the bend at the mineral level. For instance, he hates Letitia James, the New York attorney general who in 2022 successfully brought a civil fraud case against him and whom he has since urged the justice department to pursue for mortgage fraud. But that's just basic revenge see also his pursuit of ex-FBI director James Comey."
"In a folksy voice Reagan explains: When someone says: Let's impose tariffs on foreign imports', it looks like they're doing the patriotic thing by protecting American products and jobs. And sometimes for a short while it works but only for a short time. He then demolishes the premise of tariffs as anything but an instrument that hurts every American worker."
Trump's anger often stems from a mix of personal vendettas and fleeting, trivial provocations. Personal grievances include pursuits of Letitia James and James Comey. Trivial incidents can trigger outsized responses, exemplified by a Canadian TV ad that used a 1987 Ronald Reagan audio clip denouncing tariffs. The ad rearranged some remarks chronologically but preserved Reagan's sentiment. Trump and the Reagan Foundation attacked the ad, Trump labeled it FAKE, then escalated by calling off tariff talks with Canada and increasing tariffs by 10 percent. The response reflects temper and pique that overwhelm the apparent scale of the perceived insult.
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