Biting NYT column tears into Trump: 'Afraid of the world he helped build'

A New York Times columnist hit back at President Donald Trump's assertions that violent rhetoric from left-wing political groups contributed to the attempt on his life during the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday in a fiery piece.

Jamelle Bouie argued in a new opinion piece on Wednesday that Trump is nowhere near as concerned about the impact of his own language as he claims to be about the language others use about him. He cited Trump's recent comments about a social media video created by six Democrats that Trump described as "seditious," and called the lawmakers "traitors."

Bouie argued that this showed Trump lives in his own "bubble," where he can isolate himself from the world and not worry about the consequences of his actions.

"This is a president who rarely travels beyond the confines of the White House compound or Mar-a-Lago," Bouie wrote. "He rarely meets people where they are. Trump holds the occasional rally, but he does not move through the world the way most presidents have. More so than most who have held the office, he lives inside a bubble."

"Some of this is vanity. Some of it is laziness. But some of it, I think, is fear," he continued. "Trump is afraid of the world. Which in a way might mean he is afraid of the world he has helped to build."