Do you think politics turns people into amoral sycophants, or do you think amoral sycophants are drawn to politics?
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I think amoral sycophants are pretty clearly attracted to politics, but I'm not sure I want to say politics turns people into sycophants.
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His foreign policy team is full of marginalized Russian sycophants.
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The result, increasingly, is a White House filled with sycophants.
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His ears are attuned only to sycophants, a ruinous trait.
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Republican sycophants who regularly excuse Trump's corrupt behavior went nuts.
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Only loyal sycophants can survive in this kind of environment.
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He insults his opponents with schoolyard nicknames while retweeting slavish sycophants.
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Surrounded by sycophants, drivers can easily lose control of their egos.
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That's the thing about sycophants: Their worship belies their true intentions.
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Or, will they all go down with Trump as flaming sycophants?
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He is easily baited, reliant on sycophants, and prone to conspiracy theories.
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And the sycophants are required to justify increasingly indefensible decisions and actions.
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"Hey, I'm president," Trump told his sycophants, or in this case, sickophants.
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"This type of person is surrounded by sycophants 24/7," Lutz told me.
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Demanding his officials act like cheerleaders and sycophants who parrot his political propaganda.
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I didn't endorse Trump's brain-dead sycophants attacking protestors on the campaign trail.
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Or, good advisers simply quit, and leave the boss in the hands of sycophants.
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More like Nero, with a coterie of sycophants fanning him and peeling his grapes.
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Cutting off critics leads to an even smaller bubble, full of sycophants & worse ideas.
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When all else fails, pro-Trump sycophants like Regan and Hannity blame the messengers.
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" A spokeswoman for Mr. Richardson said later that he had meant "sycophants," not "psychopaths.
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Add to that his need to surround himself with readily compliant flatterers and sycophants.
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I'd take a crew of them over a bunch of sycophants and yes men.
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But c'mon — like it's totally implausible that one of Trump's sycophants would say that?
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But from Trump's point of view, that's just as bad — he wants sycophants, not loyalists.
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Employees who persisted in doing so were usually marginalized or fired, while sycophants were promoted.
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Trump's sycophants are doing their part to lay the groundwork for such a stunning move.
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Having popular twitter sycophants as your PR team seems to be working well for you.
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Contrast those brave Republicans with the current Trump sycophants in the House of Representatives. Rep.
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And, her base made up of liberal sycophants aren't doing much to help the cause.
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He has surrounded himself with trophy wives, sycophants, and his own name, everywhere he looks.
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Trump's rather nonjudgmental attitude toward retweeting sycophants has led to more than a few missteps.
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Trump has curated a Republican squad of sycophants to reinforce his overblown yet immensely fragile ego.
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The bone-spur bozo residing in the Oval Office, surrounded by terrified sycophants, has sinister talents.
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The circle of sycophants, who do not care about the boss, often spurs the leader's flameout.
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It may be, of course, that Trump wishes to fill the most important posts with sycophants.
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Much like King Henry VIII and the czars, Mr. Trump visibly enjoys supplication by the sycophants.
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But they got their dream team of hold-back-the-clock fossil fools and corporate sycophants.
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All his adult life he has surrounded himself with sycophants who catered to his every whim.
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I asked him about sycophants in politics, the psychology of totalitarianism, and, of course, Donald Trump.
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Even former sycophants like Rudy Giuliani and Chris Christie trembled their way off the national stage.
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As the McCarthy story shows, Trump reduces those around him—even powerful members of Congress—to sycophants.
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Trump is free to blame them and the other non-sycophants around him for his impeachment woes.
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POPSTAR: NEVER STOP NEVER STOPPING Andy Samberg is Conner4Real, an arrogant pop-rap star surrounded by sycophants.
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Trump likes to be surrounded by sycophants who stroke his ego and agree with his asinine boasts.
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He is no longer surrounded by sycophants to boss around, humiliate, and do everything for him. Tough!
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I saw it turn politicians, captains of industry and Howard Cosell into slack-jawed, Jell-o-kneed sycophants.
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And bosses who circulate only with sycophants and fellow members of the 0.1% may end up like Hughes.
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You're not supposed to be sycophants, you're supposed to be skeptics, you're supposed to ask me tough questions.
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Celebrity sycophants and their enablers must consider the ramifications of their efforts to build a second Hollywood blacklist.
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"We've had celebrity clients, who in some cases are used to sycophants falling all over them," he said.
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"The leaders of Europe are sycophants, kneeling behind the policies of Donald Trump," he said at the weekend.
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I found him on the porch catching fresh air and a break from the ass-grabbing sycophants inside.
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Presidential sycophants and G.O.P. isolationists would also have cheered the deal, along with more than a few liberals.
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Rather, they are surrounded by sycophants and servants, travel in private planes and are housed in great luxury.
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The Trump administration, already stocked with anti-environment industry sycophants, is bent on resuscitating, not regulating, Big Coal.
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But one thing is certain: The shorter his presidency, the less damage he and his sycophants can cause.
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Trump has put sycophants and loyal family members in influential positions over people who actually know what they're doing.
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He did not defend State Department personnel against scurrilous attacks by Trump and his right wing, conspiratorial-crazed sycophants.
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He stopped listening to advice, surrounded himself with sycophants, and began to treat others with tremendous disdain, especially women.
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He surrounds himself with sycophants and enablers, and he believes both the facts and the falsehoods he finds congenial.
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If environmental zealots and sycophants get their way, you won't be allowed to sip it through a plastic straw.
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This continues Trump's pattern of appointing dutiful sycophants that do not have tangible expertise for their given cabinet positions.
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" Their recent groundbreaking story interviewed a number of Obama sycophants in their "struggle to adjust to a Trumpian world.
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When his sycophants fail to praise him enough, he finds himself having to do the bragging on his own.
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As his sycophants depart, Twitter is the one place where he can quickly get a similar hit of flattery.
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Now, as "Conner4Real," he's surrounded by sycophants and encouraged to embrace his worst impulses, with disastrous and hilarious results.
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But for those who became sycophants to a racist golfer for personal gain, there can be no going back.
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The Japanese government is a privileged club of hereditary politicians and their opportunistic sycophants, and a comforting echo chamber.
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You rally your faithful, recede into a protective cocoon of sycophants, friendly crowds, internet surveys, and golden toilet seats.
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And is his inclination to prefer sycophants and yes men to competent officials making a crisis more or less likely?
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Early triumphs give way to intoxicating pride, and the sycophants they surround themselves with do nothing to dispel their delusions.
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The world it uncovers is a poisonous nest of preening dandies, bejeweled grande dames, hypocritical sycophants and assorted hangers-on.
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When you choose loyalists and sycophants over experts and professionals, this disaster of an administration is what you get. Opinion
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Thus, Mr. Trump would remain in office, and congressional Republicans would keep looking like the weak-willed sycophants they are.
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Trump took Senators Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz, who'd actually been bent against him, and bent them into fawning sycophants.
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He's insulated by sycophants and by family members, and he can still ride a long way on his popular following.
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Gandhi was encircled by a "college of sycophants", said a former Congress official who joined a rival bloc this year.
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But if Trump is allowed to stack the Cabinet with yes men, cronies, and sycophants, then the danger becomes severe.
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Those who sow fear in the hearts of their aides risk surrounding themselves with sycophants who deprive them of key information.
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In such a crowd of sycophants, the question of who can perform devotion to Stalin the best is an important one.
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Trump likes loyalists and sycophants, and Pence's strategy, while smart for his 2020 hopes, was neither particularly loyal nor particularly sycophantic.
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His tendency to solicit, repeat, and retweet self-serving falsehoods served up by sycophants and hangers-on should be taken seriously.
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His knowledge of policy has remained thin, and, despite being burned again and again, his credulousness toward online sycophants has persisted.
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Trump has spent most of his business career surrounded by sycophants, by people who work for him and not an actual company.
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When her boss does something execrable, she validates it at greater length and with more passion than most paid sycophants would muster.
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While some Trump sycophants — like incoming Florida governor Ron DeSantis — won, in several cases the president's interventions led directly to Democratic victories.
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Autocracy encourages sycophants to crowd around the Emperor, but this particular Emperor's new clothes are on full display for all to see.
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It was true of the sycophants and opportunists before whom he dangled cabinet appointments during the campaign and then, oh, never mind.
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Iraq's government and its sycophants have said the Kirkuk assault was necessitated by Iraqi Kurdistan's overwhelming vote for independence on Sept. 85033.
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Democrats would also be able to stop Trump from appointing sycophants to key federal law enforcement posts or other powerful Cabinet positions.
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The risk, however, is that you end up simply surrounding yourself with flatterers and sycophants who tell you what you want to hear.
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When not intended to criticize the powerful, it becomes the weapon of anarchic provocateurs and the sycophants who take their agenda too far.
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It is only fitting that he was the host of the TV program "The Apprentice," a show about sycophants vying for his favor.
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Pehrson's LA is strung out, bloodshot, ennui, and second-hand smoke—a place of predators and sycophants, desperate strivers and the catatonic famous.
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Indeed, the story is bringing together the alt-right populists at Breitbart, Trump sycophants at Fox News, and GOP establishmentarians at National Review.
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Sycophants immediately restored him to his place, but he was too out of breath and dazed to make it to the finish line.
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The operatives surrounding Joseph Stalin in 1953 turn out to be just the sort of inept, backbiting sycophants that populate Iannucci's other comedies.
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They are the brightest stars in a constellation of hustlers, sycophants, tough guys and wannabes, whose admiration is streaked with envy and fear.
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Allowing Mr. Trump to lead the Republican Party, filled with sycophants and weak-willed leaders, into the next election is the greater prize.
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Sycophants were essential to keep the game going, heaping praise on the great man, saying what a privilege it was to serve him.
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Should Trump leave his cocoon of sea-level sycophants, he might be surprised at what he'd find in the other American time zones.
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Mostly, Getty surrounds himself with hangers-on and sycophants, prodding what amounts to his royal court to debate who loves him the most.
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He has spent his adult life surrounded by sycophants who reinforce his opinion that he wins and is the bestest ever at everything.
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According to Richardson, Suu Kyi has reacted to the ongoing criticism by surrounding herself with "sycophants" and refusing to listen to bad news.
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Sonny built his empire by bullying his way to success, and now is surrounded by sycophants too afraid of him to challenge him.
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All a leader needs to do is make one remark to 'put a woman in her place' and his sycophants will do the rest.
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Similarly, we don't hear anyone outside of the most craven Trump sycophants insisting that Tillerson couldn't have said what he's reported to have said.
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On the other side, the Republicans are Trump sycophants who conjured up every conspiracy theory short of blaming the Russian probe on Elvis Presley.
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In one realm, the indolent king preferred sycophants to tell him that his kingdom was thriving, though it was under constant threat from invaders.
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President Trump, his Republican sycophants in Congress, and the right-wing media are working overtime yet again to distract and manipulate the American public.
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This is rule by Al Czervik, Rodney Dangerfield's character in "Caddyshack": a reckless, clownish boor surrounded by sycophants, determined to blow up all convention.
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What we saw Wednesday was a parade of sycophants comparing their leader to Jesus Christ while spouting discredited conspiracy theories straight from the Kremlin.
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A fake Twitter account is only one of the early signs of impending celebrity, along with well-meaning admirers, autograph-seekers, groupies and sycophants.
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Our nation's capital is rife with small-minded sycophants, more interested in securing their own stations than in serving the country they claim to love.
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The latter has largely shunned Western media in favour of Kremlin mouthpieces such as RT and the occasional interview with sycophants such as Sean Hannity.
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Whether an impeachment proceeding is successful — and, of course, it assuredly will not be with a Senate packed with Republican sycophants — is not the question.
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Maybe that happened for a few months, but at this point he's entirely surrounded by sycophants who will tell him whatever he wants to hear.
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One by one, those who spoke truth to his power were pushed out and replaced by sycophants who became "acting" rather than fully empowered officials.
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The theory, as they explained it, is that authoritarians benefit from corrupt practices — like having access to dark money or putting sycophants in positions of power.
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Perhaps there are still a couple of rock star art critics out there with multimillionaires hanging on their reviews and clouds of sycophants buzzing around them.
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Kelly said this week, as Trump faces impeachment, that he left office warning Trump he needed clearheaded advice and suggested he shouldn't surround himself with sycophants.
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It is a quite a change from a man who, among an impressive array of Trump sycophants, stood out for his proclamations of love and loyalty.
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"Trump was unexpectedly elected, so they wanted to work with him when they could, but it went from working with him to being sycophants," Whalen said.
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He portrays Drake as being a weak character surrounded by disloyal sycophants, and Drake and Lil Wayne as fake thugs reliant on Birdman's talent and influence.
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The Warriors were up, three games to one, and planning celebratory excursions to Napa and noodling with the latest toys coughed up by Silicon Valley sycophants.
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"Trump was unexpectedly elected, so they wanted to work with him when they could, but it went from working with him to being sycophants," Whalen said then.
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One after another, Republican leaders bow the knee to the newly enthroned Orange God King, who is surrounded by a motley court of misfits, sycophants and brigands.
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The closest thing to a message that "Rules Don't Apply" imparts — that the slavish sycophants bowing and scraping before their master enable his insanity — is hardly new.
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Like other Trump sycophants, he had insisted that there was no evidence that the 2016 Republican campaign colluded with Russia to affect the outcome of the election.
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The one benefit consistently repeated by ObamaCare sycophants is really nothing more than a not-so-elaborate fiction, but where does the 85033-million figure come from?
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I didn't want to hear their views anymore so I shut them out of my life and just listened to the sycophants who I was hanging around with.
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As for Trump, he has shown himself to have a real taste for hoaxes and sycophants, eagerly embracing whatever set of "facts" meets the needs of the moment.
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An improved and independent Congress will save our democracy from becoming an autocracy of sycophants who have forgotten their role as overseers and checks on the executive branch.
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Surrounded by sycophants, King Saud emptied the national treasury while a frustrated Prince Faisal sought to rally other princes to his side; critical development projects were put off.
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But the aspects of it that still reward investigation — the satire of sycophants and the tortured portrait of Timon — do not jibe comfortably with this Occupy Athens interpretation.
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"My party, the Republicans, have really just rolled over and decided that they'd rather just be cult-like sycophants and just ignore what Donald Trump has done," Setmayer said.
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One, Donald Scoggins, himself a party activist and longtime observer of Washington's black Republican political class, described the White House adviser as having "sycophants, not party activists" around her.
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The fact that these masters of industry and war hardened generals are forming the core of Trump's cabinet has sent the established Washington political sycophants into a fiery rage.
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Surrounded by sycophants on a luxury bus, Mr. Trump brags about how he aggressively tried to seduce a married woman, later ridiculing her figure as ruined by fake breasts.
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It is also about sycophants who abuse their neighbors but worship ministers' parking spaces, and about housewives pressuring husbands to accept bribes so they can buy a fur coat.
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Donald Trump has transformed the electorate into two camps, sycophants and dissidents, both passionate, both aimed like missiles at November, both with an intent desire to destroy the competition.
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The theory, as progressive foreign policy proponents tell me, is that authoritarians benefit from corrupt practices — like having access to dark money or putting sycophants in positions of power.
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On gun violence, Republicans continue to act as NRA sycophants while young activists step up to help lead a national movement demanding policies that protect children rather than guns.
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The result is a White House devoid of policy seriousness, led by a small clique of sycophants unwilling or unable to stand up to Trump's unrealistic proposals and policy excesses.
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And at a time when the country faces a potential pandemic, it's a reminder of why a competent government let by experts rather than partisan sycophants matters to people's lives.
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"The leaders of Europe are sycophants, kneeling behind the policies of Donald Trump," he said, adding he was open to dialog and that meeting Trump was improbable but not impossible.
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Her nervous staff and extended community of sycophants, hangers-on and self-professed "confidantes" keep unburdening themselves in the press — while being granted anonymity in exchange for their self-aggrandizing candor.
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So, it&aposs clear that people like Clapper and Brennan and many other deep state sycophants, they should in no way, none of them have any access to our government secrets.
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Andy Grove, a CEO of Intel, advised CEOs to balance the sycophants they inevitably attract by cultivating "Cassandras" who are "quick to recognise impending change and cry out an early warning".
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And the story of Navarro's rise tells you a lot about the nature of the Trump administration — a place that rewards sycophants who tell the boss what he wants to hear.
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The transformation of Trump sycophants — the latest being the "Mooch" — into critics who charge he's a mean-spirited, evil, corrupt racist probably says more about them than it does the president.
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And if they vote against Schumer's motions to hear new evidence and witness testimony, they'll be seen as Trump sycophants -- undermining their bids and boosting Schumer's odds of becoming majority leader.
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Much like the communal, executive power-centric systems set up in Cuba and the Soviet Union, this next constitution will give absolute power to the Maduro and his cadre of sycophants.
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The turning point comes when the wealthy and magnanimous Timon realizes what the rest of us already know: His friends are sycophants, adoring him only as long as the handouts last.
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And if they vote against Schumer's motions to hear new evidence and witness testimony, they'll be seen as Trump sycophants — undermining their bids and boosting Schumer's odds of becoming majority leader.
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But there are real monsters in Weiner's story as well, from the ascetic and ruthless revolutionary Sergei Nechaev to the coterie of sycophants (among them Alan Greenspan) who gathered around Rand.
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This would mean not only that Democrats could block nominees they consider extreme or unqualified, but also that they could prevent Trump from appointing sycophants to key federal law enforcement posts.
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Clad in a fleece, surrounded by 12 screens, masseuses, a manipulative wife, a hostile ex-wife and a cast of millionaire sycophants whom he periodically culls, Mr Cohen cuts a sad figure.
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Take someone whose personality might have been merely disagreeable under normal circumstances, and give him the kind of wealth that lets him surround himself with sycophants and usually get whatever he wants.
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After all, we've got until next year before we're faced with the very real possibility of Donald J. Trump holding a briefcase with the nuclear launch codes in a roomful of sycophants.
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The bubble he built, the wall of sycophants he constructed to protect himself from criticism, was at last obliterated by realization that a bad situation is about to get worse, much worse.
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As a result, he surrounds himself with sycophants, ignores competent advisers and resorts to basking in the adulation of his supporters at rallies in which he can boast and posture and lie.
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That so many G.O.P. senators have kept quiet up to now — save for uber-sycophants like Lindsey Graham — suggests that they fear that this framing is accurate and it stinks to them.
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By only allowing their sycophants to add replies below their posts, anyone reading along will be exposed to a uniformity of opinion that clashes with Twitter's position as a marketplace of ideas.
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But he might pause to consider the sad fate of other sycophants in Trump's world, such as Lindsey Graham and Mike Pompeo, whose reputations have been shredded by their transformation into court flatterers.
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A gift because it propelled Jordan to basketball's pinnacle, scaring everybody in his path along the way—and a curse because it transformed many of those around him into fawning groupies and sycophants.
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More anti-Trumpers seem to be telling themselves a 'Madness of King George' narrative: Trump is a semiliterate madman surrounded by sycophants who are morally, intellectually and psychologically inferior to people like us.
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Mr. Trump himself has made it increasingly clear that for all his talk about liking conflict, his real intention is to pull together not a "team of rivals" but a gang of sycophants.
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More anti-Trumpers seem to be telling themselves a "Madness of King George" narrative: Trump is a semiliterate madman surrounded by sycophants who are morally, intellectually and psychologically inferior to people like us.
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He then makes his way to a party that is being given by a famous actress (Lilli Palmer in place of Marlene Dietrich), amid a scrum of sycophants, auteurs, cinephiles and whirring cameras.
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Opinion Columnist There are two very big lies that Donald Trump and his sycophants have used, through aggressive, bombastic repetition, to shape the public debate about impeachment, and about Trump's legitimacy more broadly.
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He also claimed he was too busy coordinating the swelling movement to give over hours waiting in a long line of retainers and sycophants who wanted to meet the candidate after every rally.
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One White House insider told me the Treasury secretary is among the "army of sycophants" around Trump who care more about staying in the boss' good graces than advocating any particular policy position.
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The anti-Trump sycophants who have been wrong over and over and over again, actively now in the position of having to root for failure of the president, that means failure for the country?
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In other words, what this means is members of the deep state, that upper echelon that we talk about, Clinton sycophants, they were literally flooding the FBI with lies, unverified, uncorroborated anti-Trump material.
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She accomplished this by resorting to those unofficial (and unprotected) servers, roping off media like cattle, refusing interviews, and trusting in her legacy media sycophants to make sure the party line was never disturbed.
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It's deadly to a presidency to be surrounded by sycophants who are going to be emphasizing the need to stroke the president's ego, to make him feel as if he's always right and ingenious.
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The sources tend to be current or former White House staffers jostling for position and posterity, strategically leaking to journalists in order to cast themselves as noble custodians and their rivals as craven sycophants.
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While sycophants might begin their campaign with condescension for the target they plan to exploit, they rationalize their behavior over time, constructing in their own minds a target more worthy of the abasements they perform.
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That's a more fitting description of Republicans' obeisance to the president and laundering of his wrongdoing, but then one hallmark of Trump and his sycophants is the projection of their own flaws onto their adversaries.
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So to the extent that Trump's approach to governance threatens world peace, that threat can be mitigated by appointees with experience and knowledge, and magnified if their posts are filled by hacks and sycophants instead.
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What Trump is telling us time and again — from this tweet to his absurd doctor's letter to his incessant feuds with other Republican leaders — is that he is very much in the flatterers and sycophants camp.
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Image: Wikimedia commons, Emancipation ParkThis Saturday, Virginia's Emancipation Park (formerly Lee Park) is slated to be the meeting place of the Unite The Right rally, a much-publicized gathering of far-right personalities and their sycophants.
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Or good advisers simply quit, and leave the boss in the hands of sycophants — people who are not concerned with getting the right information to him but simply in telling him what he wants to hear.
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Once again, Trump has benefited from something sowed by others for a greater agenda, a direct result of a decades-long conservative project to discredit mainstream sources of information as populated by so-called liberal sycophants.
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The sitting Venezuelan leader, accused of running the OPEC nation of 30 million people like a dictatorship and wrecking its economy, has defied European heads of state and called them sycophants for following President Donald Trump.
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Trump isn't even using Pence as a prime surrogate: He's sending out sycophants like Rudy Giuliani and Newt Gingrich — the guys who have his back and will deliver even his strangest self-justifications with a smile.
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Mr. Trump has disputed that number, but not the fact that his TV diet consists overwhelmingly of Fox's sycophants, who have now gathered around one insistent message aimed at their No. 1 fan: Fire Robert Mueller now.
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Whenever possible Trump has traveled to his own properties -- the Mar-a-Lago resort is a favorite -- where he can surround himself with sycophants, rest in his own comfy bed and tweet insults at the people he fears.
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That's what we have here in China: The self-silenced majority, sycophants of a powerful regime, resentful of people like me who speak out, are doubly bitter because they know that their debasement comes by their own hand.
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It can't be any of his sycophants in conservative media who've already tethered their fates to their orange-hued messiah, exposing themselves as pockets-out hucksters who pawned their conservative compass for a ride on the gilded Trump Train.
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Now, Mueller, his merry band of anti-Trump deep state sycophants, Hillary Clinton, Obama, Democratic donors -- what&aposs happening here, we all pretty much agree on -- they are laying a perjury trap for that president of the United States.
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Pace the president and his sycophants — the ones who spent nearly two years casting aspersions on Mueller's integrity, only to now hail his conclusions as dispositive — the nature and extent of Trump's ties to Russia required a thorough investigation.
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The disparity between his calm and respectful acceptance of the report, despite its criticisms of him, stands in stark contrast to the ravings of Donald Trump and his coterie of sycophants in the G.O.P. caucus and at Fox News.
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And do not our memories of him — presiding over the fan-beleaguered court of King Picasso at Mougins or any of his other favored haunts, surrounded by sycophants who invented or bent the truth in his favor — truly appall?
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However, the recording also offers not only a new window into a world of sycophants and operators, but also disturbing proof that the President is just as narcissistic, erratic and ill-informed in private as he is in public.
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Also, we have breaking new information surrounding Mueller&aposs runaway witch- hunt as he is now demanding that all witnesses turn over their phones so his merry band of Hillary-supporting and Trump-hating sycophants can comb through private communications.
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What is driving the sales are people—hungry as hell for the messy ass White House drama between America's special boy and his army of sycophants—who can't tell the difference between a book about World War II and Trump's face.
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President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office on Monday, January 30, 2016 while sycophants applaud (Photo by Andrew Harrer - Pool/Getty Images)Companies like Uber are getting raked over the coals for collaborating with the Trump regime.
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This seamy affair raises a second issue of profound importance, which is the tendency of Trump to insult and humiliate some who work for him, while others who work for him and some GOP allies in Congress act like shameless sycophants.
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Mr. Trump's declaration of his genius was of a piece with the sycophants rodeo in the White House cabinet room last June, when his consuls and lictors took turns lavishing praise on him in terms to make even Caesar blush.
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Liberal economists have made plenty of bad predictions – if you never get it wrong, you're not taking enough risks – but have generally been willing to admit to and learn from mistakes, and have rarely been sycophants to people in power.
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Will he, by the time a crisis arrives, have a team in place that even has the backbone to inform him of what those limits are, or will he have successfully staffed the administration with a solid bloc of sycophants and yes men?
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But Vox's Ezra Klein has argued that he should — because it suggests that Trump is too gullible to be president candidate: His tendency to solicit, repeat, and retweet self-serving falsehoods served up by sycophants and hangers-on should be taken seriously.
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But Vox's Ezra Klein has argued that he should — because it suggests that Trump is too gullible to be presidential candidate: His tendency to solicit, repeat, and retweet self-serving falsehoods served up by sycophants and hangers-on should be taken seriously.
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Biden should use the debate to seek common ground with his Democratic opponents and to launch a full-scale and aggressive broadside against the bitterly divisive, chronically deceitful and thoroughly corrupt swampland of the Trump presidency and his Republican sycophants in Congress.
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Still, Mr. Mattis's willingness and ability to stand up to Mr. Trump's rants, and to maintain his trust, in an administration largely stocked with sycophants might be the only things that keep the United States out of deeper, poorly planned, military engagements.
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For all of those women's loathsomeness, this is also not a problem specific to Kellyannes and Hopes and Ivankas, or any of the other contemptible power-hungry sycophants who have been willing to provide cover for misogynists since before "feminist" was a word.
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The resentment of the Turks opposed to Mr. Erdogan and his seemingly total control would often reveal itself in conversations as they would speak about their fantasies of putting A.K.P. politicians behind bars, of stripping their sycophants of privileges, of settling the score.
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There also have been men of principle who departed quietly: Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, Secretary of State Rex TillersonRex Wayne TillersonFox's Cavuto roasts Trump over criticism of network Ex-sycophants highlight the void of competence around Trump Trump says No. 2 State Dept.
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Trump's well-known hostility to people who challenge his authority or puncture his myth of personal greatness has led him to not only surround himself with political allies but personal sycophants — people who will tell Trump exactly what he wants to hear.
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If Mr. Trump would open his mind to facts like these, instead of succumbing to the blandishments of cheering crowds and political sycophants, he would learn that three-quarters of all American adults favor Mr. Obama's decision to re-establish ties with Cuba.
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And the way to do that is to vote down nominations of loyalists and sycophants, to beat back the legislation that emerges from this side of Trump's personality, and to investigate and curb corruption within Trump's network before it blossoms into kleptocracy.
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Aside from the fact that Trump seems very rich, they indicate that business is down at the President's Mar-a-Lago resort, but slightly up at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, DC, where one is likely to find sycophants from all over the world.
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He doesn't staff his administration with inept sycophants or sell America out to the Russians or unleash an unprecedented wave of race riots and pogroms or abuse power to persecute his enemies or steal taxpayer money or undermine democratic institutions and the rule of law.
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Meanwhile, Trump himself has made it clear that he remembers the difference between a true friend like McMaster and the opportunistic sycophants who make up the vast majority of GOP cadres — lavishing multiple tweets and campaign appearances on a race with no particular strategic significance.
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After Lee's wife Joan died in late 2017, the comic book legend "became the target of various unscrupulous businessmen, sycophants and opportunists who saw a chance to take advantage of [his] despondent state of mind," according to the complaint Lee filed in Los Angeles.
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And Bloomberg, who has dallied several times with an independent run—at least according to the very well-paid sycophants on his political staff—has wisely chosen to avoid testing the notion that a divorced liberal Jewish technocratic billionaire from Wall Street could get elected.
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Rather than populating government ranks with sycophants, or those who would sacrifice their own personal beliefs in order to remain in power, we need more officials who understand that one must be willing to lose their job in order to effectively do their job.
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The region's leaders have not forgotten how the Palestinians cheered on Saddam Hussein after his invasion of Kuwait, which prompted Kuwait to expel 300,000 Palestinians, a fact ignored by their American sycophants, and how their corrupt leaders have squandered the Gulf states' financial aid.
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Timothy Egan I met Gary Johnson, the somewhat-surging Libertarian Party candidate for president, years ago in one of those beautiful Western settings full of mostly awful people at the time — that is, lobbyists and various sycophants who attach themselves to any gathering of power.
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But after he initially claimed Cruz's father had ties to JFK's death in March, Vox's Ezra Klein argued it should be taken seriously: His tendency to solicit, repeat, and retweet self-serving falsehoods served up by sycophants and hangers-on should be taken seriously.
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He does this with the cooperation of a vast entourage of the court's sycophants and via such an uninterrupted litany of praise for Irax for all the good qualities he lacked, that after five days Irax, exhausted and chastened, begged for it to stop.
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"He is showing a willingness to shrink the team of national security experts to only Trump sycophants, and that makes us less safe," Representative Eric Swalwell, Democrat of California, who has repeatedly locked horns with Republicans over the Russia investigation, said Friday in an interview.
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Each of the three coequal parts of our government, the Founders believed, would seek to preserve its powers and authority, and the new Constitution thus would offer a means of checking the designs of demagogues and the sycophants and rogues who followed their lead.
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Trump says he won't move the press corps out of the White House briefing room, as previously reported, but that "some people in the press will not be able to get in" — raising the prospect of a pool full of the "sycophants" that Obama warned about yesterday.
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"His demise may occur because of the toxicity of his leadership style, characterized by impulsiveness, shooting from the hip, surrounding himself with sycophants of modest abilities, using divide and rule on all levels, a style that had led many to turn against him," Professor Arad said.
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And while we're excited to see what mythical bullshit takes root in such a gathering of sycophants and enablers, we also can't help but note that Team Trump passed up a wonderful opportunity to explore other themes perhaps more germane to the 45th presidency of these great United States.
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The night's official theme was "Make America Work Again," and the political speakers, notably Trump's former rivals and current sycophants Chris Christie and Ben Carson, tried to focused their rhetoric on jobs, touting Trump's business experience and repeating tried-and-true Republican attack lines on President Obama's economic record.
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Trumpian logic, more narcissistic than syllogistic, holds that if it's the president's job to lift up the country, then it's the country's job to lift up the president — spiritually, financially, with appointments for his cronies and sycophants, with jobs for his kin, with applause and of course with parades.
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They are also an insult to all the victims, their families and the communities who have suffered at the hands of white nationalist extremists, many of whom have seemingly been emboldened by President Donald Trump's rhetoric and that of his sycophants, like Carlson, who continue to give him cover.
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But the book's true focus is on his personal life, from his earliest days as a child with a penchant for costumes, to the meeting of his first love, to a tempestuous relationship with Miró, on and on to his final moments, still wearing disguises and separating himself from sycophants.
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Anyone who has become dispirited by the stark, in-your-face corruption and degradation visited upon us by President Trump and his stable of sycophants would do themselves some good to find and watch videos of the testimony of Marie Yovanovitch, my hero, as well as George Kent and Bill Taylor.
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Some ex-Trumpites depart hoping to still parlay the experience; Sean SpicerSean Michael SpicerIn defense of Karamo Brown, and civility Ex-sycophants highlight the void of competence around Trump Conservatives lash out at CNN for hiring Andrew McCabe MORE is as duplicitous on the speaking stump today as he was as White House press secretary.
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" The complaints also claims that Duffy and Champion took advantage of Lee while he was grieving the loss of his wife Joan in 2017: "Upon her death, Lee at the age of 94 became the target of various unscrupulous businessmen, sycophants and opportunists who saw a chance to take advantage of Lee's despondent mind, kind heart and devotion to his craft.
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I think he's spent so much time with these sycophants who worship him and have responded positively to his loony ideas about the wall and the Muslim ban that he feels pressure to live up to the image of Trump as the savior and rescuer even though it's not winning him a whole lot of popularity among the majority of the country.
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Our sultan is just like one of theirs: He shirks the rule of law, nurtures a cult of personality through his own state-directed media, surrounds himself with sycophants, con men and conspiracy buffs, and denounces our professional deep state — its bureaucrats, diplomats and military officers — for trying to shackle him with our 230-year-old constitutional checks and balances.
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Trump and his band of sycophants, both in elected office and the right-wing media, have painted Page as a homewrecker and a traitor -- the former for her private affair (the GOP critique of this, given the instances of infidelity and scandal in its own ranks, is rich, by the way) and the latter simply because she privately expressed distaste for the President.
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Trump's lawyer Michael CohenMichael Dean CohenStormy Daniels on testifying to Congress: 'I have no fear of being under oath' House Democrats planning to hold hearings regarding Trump's role in hush-money payments: report Ex-sycophants highlight the void of competence around Trump MORE, facing prison time, flipped — he claimed — after the president embraced Vladimir PutinVladimir Vladimirovich PutinBipartisan senators urge Trump administration to release Ukraine aid Sen.
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A federal probe into campaign finance violations committed by Trump's former personal attorney Michael CohenMichael Dean CohenStormy Daniels on testifying to Congress: 'I have no fear of being under oath' House Democrats planning to hold hearings regarding Trump's role in hush-money payments: report Ex-sycophants highlight the void of competence around Trump MORE for his role in the payments made to the women alleging affairs ended earlier this year without bringing charges.
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But I don't think it's a coincidence that we've capped an era full of white male antihero protagonists with a president who feels like he might as well be the main character of an antihero drama in some other universe, where viewers thrill at how he always dances one step ahead of the forces that would bring him down, cheered on by toadies and sycophants who eagerly abandon principle in the face of finally grasping power.
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Anthony ScaramucciAnthony ScaramucciScaramucci: Trump is in a 'full-blown meltdown' and it's 'gonna get way worse' Ex-sycophants highlight the void of competence around Trump Scaramucci says 6900th Amendment should be considered to remove Trump, citing 'full-blown insanity' MORE, the controversial investment banker and on-again, immediately off-again Trump aide, in a matter of a few days this month went from championing the president to calling him "narcissistic" and "crazy," and expressing shock at his racist rants.
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While a federal probe into campaign finance violations committed by Trump's former personal attorney Michael CohenMichael Dean CohenStormy Daniels on testifying to Congress: 'I have no fear of being under oath' House Democrats planning to hold hearings regarding Trump's role in hush-money payments: report Ex-sycophants highlight the void of competence around Trump MORE for his role in the payments made to the women alleging affairs is over, Democrats reportedly believe there is enough evidence to pursue an inquiry of their own.
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"These provisions provide the [intelligence community] with key national security authorities, and we look forward to working with the Congress on their permanent reauthorization," then-Director of National Intelligence Dan CoatsDaniel (Dan) Ray CoatsCongress set for chaotic fall sprint Ex-sycophants highlight the void of competence around Trump 10 declassified Russia collusion revelations that could rock Washington this fall MORE wrote in a letter to top members of the Senate Judiciary and Intelligence committees last month before he stepped down.
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What they're saying: On Tuesday, the Party convened a gathering at the anniversary at which Xi Jinping urged patriotism among youth, striving for brighter China (Xinhua): My thought bubble: Be wary of underestimating how many believe in the patriotic and increasingly jingoistic propaganda and Xi's repeated claims that China is closer than it has ever been to national rejuvenation, or of how many sycophants and opportunists there are in a country as large as China which see safety and opportunity in embracing the Party line.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpJoe Biden's record – not his gaffes – is dooming his campaign Trump defends shift of FEMA funds, citing Dorian's change in path Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively donate M to help migrant children, social justice MORE on Saturday renewed his attacks on former White House aide Omarosa Manigault NewmanOmarosa Onee Manigault NewmanTrump renews attacks on Omarosa, slamming her as 'disgusting and foul mouthed' Ex-sycophants highlight the void of competence around Trump Scaramucci breaks up with Trump in now-familiar pattern MORE, calling her "disgusting and foul mouthed" and accusing her of going "for some cheap money" by publishing a book last year about her time in the Trump administration.
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Former White House communications director Anthony ScaramucciAnthony ScaramucciScaramucci: Trump is in a 'full-blown meltdown' and it's 'gonna get way worse' Ex-sycophants highlight the void of competence around Trump Scaramucci says 25th Amendment should be considered to remove Trump, citing 'full-blown insanity' MORE on Tuesday said that President TrumpDonald John TrumpJoe Biden's record – not his gaffes – is dooming his campaign Trump defends shift of FEMA funds, citing Dorian's change in path Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively donate M to help migrant children, social justice MORE is in a "meltdown," adding that he thinks that the president's behavior will likely only grow more erratic in coming weeks.
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