So you'll accept any sort of performance no matter how low just because it's been brought low already. Don't you want a better sort of leadership? Don't you want someone like Eisenhower or Reagan or GHW Bush to be the standard? Why do you subscribe to the idea of playing to the lowest common denominator?
His tweets are a symptom and symbol of his disgraceful lack of leadership. He disgraces the office by the way he treats his duties. 1) His failure to appoint the necessary secondary management positions throughout the government. It make it harder even impossible to carry out his own programs. 2) The chaotic foreign policy actions. That he rejects our best allies for a bromance with Putin and other dictatorial thugs. 3) His continued throwing his own people under the bus for momentary gain. Lack of loyalty will bite him sooner rather than later. 4) His juvenile obsessions that distract him even when he makes the right move. Frankly there are too many to list but they all fall under the main issue....he sees it as a personal position to be used as he sees fit for his personal aggrandizement. He doesn't understand or care about the immense responsibility he has been granted. He diminishes it by his every action. That is disgraceful.
I wouldn't call his actions or lack of action disgraceful. I am beginning to think that he's in over his head.
@COTiger and @Bengal B doesnt the personalization of the office worry you? I believe Obama set too many precedents for overreaching executive action that feed into what Trump could do. I'm not really concerned that Trump will try to be dictatorial but that he will impress upon Obama's precedent and take us down a dark path that the next president or so could really abuse. Too many treat this as a tit for tat skirmish for the top. I fear it is a beginning of a slide to the loss of our true identity as a representative republic with checks and balances. Trump isn't the immediate threat as he is both too lazy and too undisciplined to carry out a plan. However he is an ultimate improviser who will keep pushing us in the wrong direction. By demeaning and devaluing the tradition and rules of the presidency he is disgracing the office.
I've been around for a while. I think each occupant of the Oval Office has personalized it, his agenda, his style of leading, and his style of managing and governing. As I wrote earlier, I think The Donald is in over his head. As a result, unless things change significantly it's One Term Donald.
Sorry I'm not expressing myself well. Of course every president puts his personal stamp on his term. What I meant previous presidents have viewed their position as being a servant of the state holding the office in trust. Trump seems to see the office as to be used to serve his interests. He's more like Louis XIV whose famous saying was "leTat ses moi" basically I am the state...the state is me. Donald appears to see the office as an extension of his business which is him and only him. He seems to want to operate the presidency as if he owns it.
Donald doesn't have any political experience and his management/leadership style isn't suited for the Oval Office. I don't see him changing and as I wrote earlier I think it's One Term Donnie.
Rex is strangely silent in a political thread that is for the most part critical of Donald. Probably because he doesn't have anything coherent to add.
Sure, it would be better for all if he would just leave Twitter alone and act above it all. My fear is not so much Trump himself but the reaction to him that may cause somebody really horrible to be elected in 2020 just because he isn't Trump. I just hope that more of the Liberal Supreme Court Justices die before then.
