President Donald Trump's poor character might end up crippling his administration, Fox News political analyst Brit Hume said in a tweet.
Hume expressed agreement in his tweet with a column appearing in the L.A. Times on Tuesday by conservative columnist Jonah Goldberg, who wrote "the Trump presidency will end poorly because character is destiny."
Goldberg offered a definition of character as if to illustrate how opposite it was from Trump's personality: "decency, politeness, self-restraint, commitment, honesty, cooperativeness, and the ability to think of others' well-being."
In the column, Goldberg explained "the driving force behind nearly all of the controversies that have bedeviled his administration is his personality, not his ideology."
Goldberg stressed the insults Trump throws out regularly "are not merely an act, but rather the product of astonishing levels of narcissism, insecurity, and intellectual incuriosity. His Twitter feed is simply a window into his id."
The columnist further emphasized Trump's "refusal to listen to advisors; his inability to bite his tongue; his demonization and belittling of senators who vote for his agenda; his rants against the First Amendment; his praise for dictators and insults for allies; his need to create new controversies to eclipse old ones; and his inexhaustible capacity to lie and fabricate history: All this springs from his nature."
Hume pointed out in his tweet that former President Bill Clinton also had poor character, "which greatly harmed his presidency, but did not cripple it." Hume said "for a time, it seemed the same might be true of Trump. But lately, there are signs it might not."
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