President Trump is trying to get the economy going again, or as he says: “open up the economy.” The day before yesterday, he said that he was appointing Ivanka and Jared to the Council to Reopen America. Yesterday he said that Larry Lindsey was going to be on the team saying, “The names that are, I think, the best and the smartest, the brightest, and they’re going to give us some ideas.” This is the same Lawrence Lindsey that was the director of the National Economic Council in the Administration of President Bush – The Younger – and who, according to Politico : said Trump has no long-term plans or ability to think ahead. He said the president has the long-term decision-making ability of an “empty chair.” adding that the Chinese see President Donald Trump as a “total narcissist” — “a 10-out-of-10 narcissist,”.

One of the things we know about Trump is that he does not like people who bad mouth him, it’s not a secret, Trump explicitly Tweets out his anger all the time and nothing makes him angrier than being dismissed as incompetent. And Trump has made it very clear that he holds a grudge.

Now here is my question, do you think Trump said to himself or his staff, “I know the guy bad-mouthed me but he’s the best and the smartest, the brightest, he has a fine mind and I want him on the Council ” or do you think he just forgot that Lindsey said “he has the long-term decision-making ability of an “empty chair.”?