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What Hope Hicks Learned in Washington

A view of duck-tour buses circling the mall wasn’t needed for Hicks to know her standing. What her office lacked in flair it made up for in proximity. While others were left wondering what the president was thinking, Hicks could often hear him shouting, even with her door closed. “Hope!” he’d scream. “Hopey!” “Hopester!” “Get in here!”

Many requests were mundane. “He doesn’t write anything down,” one source close to the White House told me. “He doesn’t type, he dictates. ‘Take this down, take this down: Trump: richest man on Earth.’ ” A second source who meets regularly with the president told me that Hicks acted almost as an embodiment of the faculties the Trump lacked — like memory. “He’ll be talking, and then right in the middle he’ll be like, ‘Hope, what was that … thing?’ ” When the name of a senator or congressman or journalist came up, Trump would prompt Hicks to provide a history of their interactions, asking, “Do we like him?” “And she fucking remembers!” (Trump has said his own memory is “one of the greatest memories of all time.”) “She’s the only person he trusts,” the second source continued. “He doesn’t trust any men and never has. He doesn’t like men, you see. He has no male friends. I was just with one of them the other day, someone who’s described as one of his closest friends, and he doesn’t know him very well. But a small number of women, including his longtime assistant back in New York, he really listens to them — especially if he’s not banging them. Because, like a lot of men but more so, Trump really does compartmentalize the sex and the emotional part.”



p.s. Holy cow, lookit the meat hooks on Sanders.

 

Give 'em hell, Harry.

 

Justice Stevens agrees with Dick Whitman.

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cult

 

Her left hand looks like Andre The Giant. Put a beer can in her hand and lets compare. That has to have something to do with the camera angle right?

 

I think that's John Madden's hand.

 

It has to. There's no way her hands are that big.

 

It's interesting that they feel that becoming President forced Trump to change in some way.

 

Photog was using a wide angle lens. They distort the image at the edges.

 

Hmmm ...

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