On a recent morning my wife read aloud a quotation from an article about Trump never being wrong. “This president gets the worst press of any president in the history of the republic. Everything he says and does is cross-checked and scrutinized to reveal him to be stupid, and uninformed or a liar.”
I responded with agreement to that description of what is revealed upon scrutinizing Donald Trump’s words and actions. When Karen told me that the person quoted was Geraldo Rivera, a reporter and Trump confidant, I was surprised. We agreed that it must have been a Freudian slip.
The article also states that the White House is “accusing the media of preferring to overreact to the blunder rather than focus on the lives still in the storm’s way.” In fact, it was Trump who focused on the blunder and his attempt once again to preserve his false belief that he is never wrong.
Learning to accept mistakes and apologize for them are skills we teach children as young as 3-years-old at Amherst Montessori school where I work. As adults in the school environment, we freely model for our children the art of apologizing whenever the opportunity arises.
Unfortunately, Trump cannot do the same.
Gretchen Browne-Courage
Northampton