Trump lacks social intelligence.
He's too self-centered to be able to know how he comes across to other people. He lacks empathy for others. Trump bases his assessments about others on whether they flatter him or dare disagree. He thinks if they flatter him, they like him and if they disagree it means they don't like him.
Trump is mystified why people like Dr. Fauci.
Trump questions how Fauci has a high approval rating 'but nobody likes me'
President Trump on Tuesday questioned why Anthony Fauci, the government's top infectious diseases expert, has a higher approval rating with the public than he does on his handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
"It’s interesting. He’s got a very good approval rating, and I like that. It’s good," Trump said during a press briefing at the White House. "Because, remember, he’s working for this administration. He’s working with us. We could’ve gotten other people. We could’ve gotten somebody else. It didn't have to be Dr. Fauci. He's working with our administration, and for the most part, we've done pretty much what he and others ... recommended."
"He’s got this high approval rating, so why don’t I have a high approval rating ... with respect to the virus?" Trump wondered aloud. . . .
"It sort of is curious," Trump said. "A man works for us, with us, very closely, Dr. Fauci and Dr. [Deborah] Birx, also highly thought of, and yet they're highly thought of, but nobody likes me. It can only be my personality. That’s all."
So are people like props to Trump? I think so. I also think he married trophy wives that other people admire thinking they make him look better.
The Fauci situation got more interesting when Fauci threw out the first ball in the baseball season. Why was he asked and not the President? At any rate, Fauci got great ratings for his appearance even though he couldn't throw the ball right. He even got his own baseball card.
Fauci gets own baseball card after first pitch
After throwing the ceremonial first pitch before Thursday night's MLB season opener, Dr. Anthony Fauci now has a baseball card of his own.
Even though his pitch was way off the mark, Topps honored Fauci with a baseball card on Friday. The front shows a picture of Fauci on the mound -- wearing a mask -- letting the ball go, without showing where it landed.
"It went in the wrong direction," Fauci told The Washington Post on Friday. "I joked around after and said I used to be a shortstop when I played ball as a young boy and I thought I was supposed to throw to first base."
Fauci made baseball history.
Dr. Fauci's Baseball Card Just Became the All-Time Best-Selling Card in Topps Now's History
Topps Now's all-time best-selling baseball card doesn't even feature a player.
The sports trading card manufacturer announced Monday that their sale of a limited-edition card featuring Dr. Anthony Fauci, 79, throwing the MLB’s opening pitch has sold out at more than 51,000 cards, making it the bestselling card in the history of Topps Now, the company's collection of limited-edition cards. . . .
Topps Now cards are available for only 24 hours on the Topps website and the company's previous record was for a card of Toronto Blue Jays third baseman Vladimir Guerrero Jr., which sold 19,396 copies and featured Guerrero's first hit.
Fauci's card sold for $9.99 and the back described him as an "ardent Washington Nationals fan" and that his pitch "signaled the official start of the 2020 MLB season," according to USA Today.
Trump's pride must have been wounded since then he said he'd be throwing out the first pitch for the Yankees on August 15. No one at the White House knew anything about it.
Trump's announcement he was throwing the first pitch at a Yankees game surprised staff - CNNPolitics
President Donald Trump's announcement that he was throwing out the first pitch at Yankee Stadium on August 15 caught staff by surprise because there was no trip on the books, a senior administration official told CNN.
The official said there had been no indication from the Yankees that an invitation had been extended, at least at the staff level, though Trump said in his announcement that he'd communicated directly with the team's president Randy Levine.
Trump's announcement came an hour before Dr. Anthony Fauci -- the nation's top infectious disease specialist who has recently served as a punching bag for some in the White House -- threw the first pitch at the season opener between the Yankees and the Washington Nationals in Washington, DC.
The New York Times reported that Trump "had been so annoyed by Dr. Fauci's turn in the limelight ... that he had directed his aides to call Yankees officials and make good on a longtime standing offer from (the team's owner) to throw out an opening pitch," citing a conversation with an official familiar with Trump's reaction. The newspaper noted that "no date was ever finalized."
He hadn't been invited. Why would the Yankees invite him when he never threw out any first pitches before?
Trump Made Up His Yankees Opening Pitch Invite: Report
According to the New York Times, Trump broke the news because he was frustrated by Fauci’s time in the stadium lights — perhaps the pettiest moment yet in the president’s tiff with the public-health official he sees as competition for the nation’s attention. But when he made the announcement, no actual date had been set. Though White House officials had called the Yankees to make good on a standing offer from the team’s president, neither party had confirmed that Trump would throw out the first pitch that Saturday night in August. The announcement reportedly alarmed both the Yankees and White House staffers — resulting in aides scrambling “to let the team know that he was actually booked on Aug. 15, although they have not said what he plans to do.”
Then on Sunday, the president declined the RSVP for his self-invite, citing his “strong focus” on dealing with the pandemic.
Oh right. He has played more golf than Obama, but he doesn't have time to throw one ball at a baseball game? Would he have the courage to show up at a baseball game?
Remember how Trump said any players that took the knee should be fired? Trump took on Colin Kaepernick and Kaepernick won. Now they're all doing it. Roger Goodell had sided with Trump earlier; now Goodell switched sides, infuriating Trump.
Donald Trump has fired off an angry tweet targeting the head of the National Football League (NFL), Roger Goodell, after he apologised for not listening to black players’ “take a knee” protests.
His scornful response comes after years of condemning the protests, and just as they take on renewed significance during protests over the killing of George Floyd.
Do you remember how Trump was booed at the World Series? I do. Fans were yelling, "Lock him up."
Now it is true there wouldn't be fans yelling and booing if Trump showed up at a baseball game now, but the players for sure wouldn't be adoring him, and they'd be taking the knee. Trump can't use baseball as a prop. I can imagine how furious he was then when Dr. Fauci got a wonderful reception and made a little history with his record-breaking baseball card.
So sad and unnecessary.
