DORI MONSON

Dori: ‘I don’t want to be a Trump!’

Feb 1, 2016, 3:20 PM | Updated: 3:50 pm

From an elephant death to a failed bike share system, Dori Monson can’t find anything he&#821...

From an elephant death to a failed bike share system, Dori Monson can't find anything he's been wrong about locally. (AP)

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KIRO Radio’s Dori Monson is in a really weird place right now. On the one hand, he’s been reading about how “ego-maniacal” Donald Trump is, always claiming how right he is about everything. On the other is George Washington and the other Founding Fathers who were always full of humility. Dori wants to emulate the latter.

“However, I also realized this morning that on every single local issue that came up this weekend, I’ve been right about,” he said. “And I don’t want to be a Trump! I don’t want to just do, ‘I told you, I told you so.'”

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And yet, when Dori goes through the recent headlines &#8212 the death of a former Woodland Park Zoo elephant, the homeless count, turmoil inside the mayor’s office, the failed bike share system and I-405 tolling issues &#8212 he feels his opinions have been correct across the board.

“And yet I respect the humility of a Washington, but I understand the certainty of a Trump who comes in saying ‘I was right about everything,'” he said. “And I just don’t know how to play it.”

The key, of course, would be admitting when he’s been wrong in the past.

“I thought about this, but this is the honest to goodness truth: There have been no local issue that I’ve ever been wrong (about),” he said. “I realized that this morning. Never. Not one time… I tried. I tried with all my might to think of any one local issue.”

What about leaving open some possibility that he has been wrong about something?

“But it’s not so,” he said. “If somebody can send in one example of a local issue in which I’ve been wrong, I would appreciate that… I want to be more like Washington than I am like Trump.”

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