**DISCLAIMER: This article was first published in January of 2022**
Over the years Donald Trump’s ego has been the topic of much discussion across the media and among Americans.
Back when Phil Rucker and Carol Leonig’s book, I Alone Can Fix It, was first published, Americans caught a glimpse into Trump’s vulnerable insecurities as they painted a picture of the former president’s dining room behavior.
“As more dinner guests with plates began queuing up in the room to visit the raw bar and other food stations, Trump finally decided it was time to wrap up our conversation. He invited us to stay for dinner and instructed the maître d’ to find us a table. Then the former president stepped onto the veranda and into the last of the day’s sun. Right on cue, the dinner guests immediately stood up at their tables to applaud him. He took it all in, smiling,” the book reads. “Just another Wednesday night at Mar-a-Lago. And off he went, table by table, to greet friends.”
After the book officially came out, Leonig would go on to say, “When you’re down there talking to him, there’s a distorted reality he’s presenting, not only to us, but the dozens of guests that come to Mar-A-Lago every night for dinner and give him a standing ovation at sunset, and then you leave Mar-A-Lago and you realize what’s happening in the world the reality is so different from what he’s trying to tell his supporters.”
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Since then, a video has circulated on Twitter thanks to the popular PatriotTakes account, that appears to show an example of Donald’s apparent insecurities.
In the clip, Trump can be seen entering the Mar-a-Lago dining room where patrons were sat down for brunch. As he walked in, diners appeared to pause their meals to give Donald a round of applause. In the clip, the ex-president appeared to egg on the group for more applause, waving his hands up in the air in a “more” gesture, before apparently becoming satisfied with their level of cheers and giving the room a thumbs-up:
Trump asking for applause from the Mar-a-Lago brunch crowd. Sad. pic.twitter.com/VuL33c0eGp
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) January 23, 2022
As you’d expect, the video garnered quite a bit of ridicule on social media:
Even the Mar-a-Lago crowd is bored by the presence of his carcass
— Tom Joseph (@TomJChicago) January 23, 2022
Pathetic little man
— bbc1420 (@bessy_c3) January 24, 2022
Pretty sad when you applause for lunch
— EllieB 😬👍🏼🇺🇸 (@elleb58) January 24, 2022
This is pathetic.
— 𝚔 𝚛 𝚒 𝚜 (@krisaelin) January 24, 2022
this applause gives a malignant narcissist a moment of contentment but they otherwise the most miserable creatures on the face of the Earth.
— Richard Signorelli (@richsignorelli) January 23, 2022
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