Why Donald Trump is a terrible leader
Donald Trump hasn’t kept his promise to never forget the “forgotten people.”
Donald Trump was supposed to be the guy who would fix everything in Washington, but after two months in office he’s proving to be a terrible leader.
Trump was never very popular, but he got high marks for his leadership. Now that’s fading. In November just after the election, 56% of Americans thought he was a good leader — now it’s fallen to just 40%.
After two months, here’s what we know: He’s not going to fix everything. He’s not going to drain the swamp. He’s not going to make America great again. He’s not going to unite all Americans. He’s not going to replace Obamacare with something “terrific.” He’s not going to bring back the manufacturing jobs or the America dream. He won’t make America respected around the world. He won’t make us safer.
Why not? Because Trump isn’t the strong leader he pretends to be. Even if he believed in all the things he promised and wanted to accomplish them, he would fail because he doesn’t understand how to govern.
Trump is a failure because he ignored Ronald Reagan’s most important lesson about leadership: “There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don’t care who gets the credit.”
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Trump is still a great campaigner, no doubt. He can work a crowd like few others can.
But working the levers of policy, administration, legislation and diplomacy is beyond him. His whole career, he was the boss of an organization that he controlled 100%, but governing in a democracy isn’t like that. Democracy is about compromise, about give-and-take, about sharing the credit and the blame. And successful governing is about getting results for the people who elected you, and for the ones you hope will vote for you next time.
"His whole career, he was the boss of an organization that he controlled 100%, but governing in a democracy isn’t like that...". And that really sums up why he keeps screwing up...bigly!
(Well that, and his YUGE need for approval, his need to satifyhis YUGE ego bigly!)
The article hit the nail on the head. As you stated Krish his yuge bigley ego gets in the way most of the time.
Yes-- his H.B.E. ("Huge Bigly Ego") keeps him from seeing things clearly.
Which is one of the main reasons he suffered such a YUGE humiliating LOSS on Trumpcare.
The man is a LOSER-- BIGLY!
Trump is a terrible leader because he has forgotten who elevated him to this sacred trust. A politician who forgets that is nobody.
As well, his supporters naively believe in his leadership qualities less I think, than they hate Clinton and the Left.
Trump is a terrible leader because he has forgotten who elevated him to this sacred trust. A politician who forgets that is nobody.
As well, his supporters naively believe in his leadership qualities less I think, than they hate Clinton and the Left.
Recently, it seems, things ar really beginning to change...more and more any of his supporters are starting to realize that they've been lied to!!!
Trump is still a great campaigner, no doubt. He can work a crowd like few others can.
Trump is one of the worst public speakers we have ever seen at that level of politics. He is horrible. Mispronounces words, uses the wrong word, constantly repeats himself. He's a disaster. The media has built him up as a great speaker and campaigner. It is all bullshit.
When he is off the teleprompter (which he laughed at President Obama using it sometimes, though Obama was and is one of the best speakers off the teleprompter we have had since it was invented)) he tends to ramble. He starts in one direction headed for a point and then, sometimes in mid-sentence changes direction completely having never finished his thoughts or comments on the previous subject. His speaking style is wandering and jerky. He is most successful when he just stands there and strings together a number of bumper sticker type slogans and calls the media evil.
He also doesn't just want the credit for everything for himself (hence his pulling away from calling Trumpcare, Trumpcare, which it is) he still does not understand that running the United States is not anything at all like running a company, especially a privately held one. He can not just hand out orders and expect them to be obeyed. He can not insult and generally piss on career government employees (especially intelligence agents) because that do not actually work for him like they are company employees, they work for the nation. He needs them, more then they need him.
He doesn't understand that if you want to be the President then you have to respect the other two branches of government. The President is not a king and is not the most powerful person in Washington. He doesn't understand that in order to get things done he needs to build coalitions among the House and the Senate and sometimes that means at least trying to make a deal with the other major party. You also have to understand that bringing together a coalition means that you will have to share the credit if it succeeds and the fault if it fails.
He also needs to understand that, despite what the little punk Steve Miller thinks, the authority of the President is indeed subject to question by the court system. That is why they exist. That is part of their function as the third branch of government.
He simply does not know what he is doing. He does not understand the job. He is in way over his head. Because of that he is hurting America.
I think Trump's an ignoramous and I didn't vote for him. Although he may not be a leader or an orator or a deep thinker, none of those deficiencies has stopped him from doing some things I like. Under Trump, ICE has stepped up enforcement and illegal immigration has slowed. He also pulled the government out of transgender advocacy. He has a good conservative pick for the Supreme Court who can hold back the looney wave from the left for years to come. He may even get a second Supreme Court appointment if a liberal justice kicks the bucket. So, on those things, I can get more out of an ignoramous than I can get out of a Democrat.