The Trump presidency has been eventful so far, to say the least. The new president's modus operandi is truly unique – guaranteed to ruffle the Washington establishment's feathers for as long as he is around. Accordingly, every day is chock-full of Twitter blasts, personnel changes, resistance-inspired demonstrations, and, of course, everything and anything to do with investigations into Russian President Vladimir Putin's election-hacking ways.
But "frustrating" may best define the new president. To wit, the same man who garnered Reaganesque comparisons during high-profile foreign trips to the Middle East and Europe can also be his own worst enemy.
The Charlottesville episode is instructive. Words of condemnation after neo-Nazis and related groups cause a riot are not difficult; just condemn neo-Nazi nut jobs with specificity in the strongest terms.
The responsibility of wing-nut leftists such as "Antifa" can be appropriately condemned at a later time and place. (No, they should have been condemned at the time since they had no permit and initiated the violence.) What was widely interpreted as a less than overwhelming initial response led to weeks of bad press. Such is the product of an unforced error.
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Per Trump: “I could walk down 5th Avenue and shoot someone, and these (White suckers) would still vote for me”
ReplyDeleteI must have missed this quote but I did not listen all the
time. I guess he thinks he can walk on water.
Don't think so.