Originally Posted By: ryck
... clearly, Trump believes the country's security is less important than his ego.

I thought that such an assessment was clear in my earlier comment:
Originally Posted By: grelber
The man is a putz in the harshest sense of the word.

Perhaps I was hasty. I should have used the more pejorative shmuck* which entails an even stronger implication of 'contemptible'.

* I prefer this transcription of the Yiddish (following Leo Rosten) in order that it not be confused with German Schmuck (as it was in one funny scene in the 1961 comedy One, Two, Three, which totally escaped comprehension and therefore humor by German moviegoers, given that all movies back then were dubbed into German — even The Longest Day [1962] which was 'tri-lingual' in the original).