Remember When He Said: "Only I Can Solve The Problems"......Well, He May Get His Wish
There is a fact of history that American Presidents are most successful when they surround themselves with excellent teams of both supporters and rivals who debate ideas and move presidents one way or another on issues of policy. Great presidencies are born in the yolk of knowledge that the presidency represents all Americans, and although the president may have viewpoints that lean to the left or the right, he has to understand and govern to better the lot of all.
Think of the presidencies of great men like Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, and even our founders like Thomas Jefferson, and you find people surrounding them that thought differently about the issues of the day. Not only did these individuals survive in the presidencies they served in, but they flourished. We then look at the presidencies of failed administrations including the current administration of Donald Trump or the historically failed administrations of Andrew Johnson and Andrew Jackson and you see the opposite. The white house was filled with political yes men and opposing viewpoints were treated as apostasy.
In the Trump administration, this is becoming the driving force. We have a president who views the white house and governmental employee as his personal servant who must swear an oath of loyalty to the leader rather than an oath to the people of the nation. The qualification for work is not competence but fealty. Fail the fealty test and you are gone. Disagree with the president and you are gone. When a white house job is an annoyance to the president, Trump talks about working without anyone in that role. We are now even hearing rumors of the president acting as his own chief of staff if, and when, he fires General Kelly. It will be interesting, since he can't do one job...... he certainly won't be able to do multiple jobs.
As the president's legal team dwindles in number and the Fox News attorneys can't join the administration due to conflicts of interest, it may even turn out that the president has to represent himself when he walks into an interview with Robert Mueller. Maybe Jay Sekulow will be able to hang on long enough to advise him and get someone from the American Center for Law and Justice {Pat Robertson's organization} to mouth Trump's words.
Trump certainly appears to want to govern by himself. Over 43% of his appointees have left and the purge continues on a daily basis. Under-cabinet positions remain unfilled at a record pace and those that do get nominations see people who are totally unqualified being nominated or hired with amazing regularity. The only qualification seems to been unfettered loyalty to the president and the willingness to be a toady to the king with no clothes.
This president loves chaos. He does that in order to deflect from his own megalomania and borderline paranoia. He keeps his staff twisting in the wind before finding creative ways to tell them that they are fired. Each time, trying to show the world that "Only I can fix everything."
The only problem here is that the Trump fix is chaos and the result is a world wondering when this nightmare of a presidency is going to end.
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I can't disagree with any of what you wrote. The world is also wondering if trump is going to screw everything up more with trade wars or a world war or wars of conquest. (he has a bright NEW military to play with and that big red button delights him so. Power! Power!) and he just added a man to his team who thinks war is the answer to all problems.
If we impeach (or arrest) him, we then get a "Religious Freedom" through "Law and Order" President. The World is watching us the way people would watch a volcano eruption heading toward a city. It's a terrible tragedy that they can't do anything about, they don't know how bad the damage is going to be and some of them are worried about the ash cloud they might have to deal with.
It's may take decades of a different type of President and politicians (honest and intelligent) to repair from bull-in-a-china-closet trump and his cronies. But who knows? This country has survived other idiots in office, and it might be repaired to better shape than it ever was.
Trump, probably because of not paying attention in school, has never understood what the true role of the President is. To him it is something like a supreme leader, like a king or CEO where everyone who works in the White House or the Executive Branch must be completely loyal to him, instead of following the oath they all take to defend the Constitution against all enemies, both foreign and domestic. That is why he asked James Comey be loyal to him when as Director of the FBI he could not be. That is why he is so angry at Jeff Sessions for doing what he had to do as the Attorney General and recuse himself from the Russia Investigation because he was involved in the campaign that was being investigated. He really had no choice, but Trump doesn't look at the AG as the people's prosecutor, which he really is. Instead he looks at the AG as his personal attorney who is there to protect him when protecting the President is not the job of the Justice Department and never can be if we want an independent Justice Department as free of partisanship as we can make it. Granted there will always be some, but eliminating as much influence as possible must always be the goal.
Trump is not just a terrible President because he is generally an arrogant, mouthy, blowhard, braggart and idiot. He is a terrible President because even after all this time he has no idea what a President is supposed to do and what a President's legal limits are. He doesn't know how a real President is supposed to act and what he can and can not do. He has no idea of how the American government functions. He never learned it. He is completely ignorant of it. He needs a a great civics teacher because he obviously has no grasp at all of even the most basic of jr high school level civics whatsoever, but I doubt he will listen to one.
Trump has INTENTIONALLY conducted his term as president of the United States as if it were a reality show on the Entertainment channel. That in itself should constitute impeachable conduct , maybe we need a new category of offense. Relentless jackassery.
There was an article here at nt that asked why liberals hated Trump. Part of my answer was that I didn't hate Trump for his ignorance and misconceptions when he first came into office, but I do despise him when, over 14 months into his term, he has refused to learn the basics of governance and presidential leadership. His absolute refusal to educate himself and force those in his cabinet to educate themselves on the intricacies of their jobs raises to the level of derilection of duty.
If someone DID try to teach trump basic civics, he'd fire them. It'd cramp his "style."
First basic rule of management:
You are only as good as the people you work with.
Then he is in a world of shit...
The reality of this situation is obvious. Trump never thought he would win the election, and never planned on winning the election, and is therefore woefully unprepared to do the job. The second he found out that his objective of gaining fame for running for the office of POTUS went just a little too well, he was horrified. Now he is everyone's horror.
Nixon was a paranoid but at least Nixon had an extremely high IQ with an education and memory that far surpasses Trump by leaps and bounds.
Still Nixon was an intelligent version of Trump but still corrupt enough to indulge in a covert espionage operation like Watergate that brought him down. His paranoia about winning at any cost willing to do illegal things brought him down and all the sycophants that lined up to do Nixon's bidding and cover up went down too.
Trump will be no different, except his other personality flaws and scandals, the chaos and confusion won't cover this up.
Remember When He Said: "Only I Can Solve The Problems"......
and... hillary would have let china bleed us dry for another decade.
news flash, trump is fixing the problems presidents 41-44 got us into (like it or not)
meanwhile, the leftwing histerics is kinda funny to watch as well :)