Trump Aides Keep Leak Stories - He Can’t Handle Embarrassment

By Eric Levitz
No, you’re the baby.
That same day, some Trump aides provided the New York Times with a portrait of the president as a moody adolescent. The president is a 70-year-old child whose TV time must be closely monitored — because any news story that upsets his ego will trigger a temper tantrum followed by irrational demands that his indulgent, overwhelmed guardians will be helpless to refuse.
Or so Donald Trump’s aides keep confiding to the nearest available reporter.
On Sunday, one of the president’s confidantes told Politico that his staffers have to “control information that may infuriate him,” a task made difficult by the fact that the leader of the free world “gets bored and likes to watch TV.”  READ MORE