President
Trump seems to me to be pretty confused about what to do as president. He seems more symbolic than substantive as a president. He has issued a flurry of executive orders
that attack the safety of Americans – attacking environmental protections, attacking
safety and worker regulations, attacking sanctuary cities, harassing and deporting
immigrants (which makes the immigrant communities shrink away from law enforcement
and not come forward to help fight the crime and even terrorist activities in
their beleaguered societies), etc. – but I actually don’t know how effective
those are, or if they are mostly photo ops on the Trump as President Reality TV
show.
His attempt
to gut the Affordable Care Act throws millions off of the insurance rolls –
another attack on the safety of Americans, and one that hurts the poor rural
Trump voters the hardest. But, the good
news is that since he never had a clue how to replace Obamacare with Trumpcare
it will go nowhere. Turns out the Republican
Congress never had a clue how to replace Obamacare either, so they all just
bumble around – thank goodness.
His security
team seems to be a good one, and I am grateful for that.
His Attorney
General looks to me like a fanatical anti-immigrant Confedreate nut case out to
harm as many non-white people as possible, but I guess that is what ultimately
got Mr. Trump elected.
He actually
said that trying to replace Obamacare was very complicated – “Who knew?”- Only
everybody who was paying any attention eight years ago when Obamacare was being
painfully cobbled together.
He actually
said that being president is a lot harder than he thought it was going to
be. This, of course, confirms many of
our thoughts about this shallow man – that he is a dilettante without the focus
or stamina to do this job.
He is good
at making headlines. Good at keeping his
hard core base in line, but they should start having “aha moments” of
realization that he Is NOT one of them, he is not one of anyone, he is only for
himself and his pathetically grandiose and needy ego.
I will give
him credit for one thing – he allowed himself to be talked out of suspending
NAFTA so as not to devastate the parts of the country that voted for him. Apparently, there are some folks who have
access to him who can present reality to him, which is very different than the
alt-right grab bag of “alternative facts” that he played to during his
campaign. Makes the Alternative Facts
folks pretty unhappy, I would presume.
If he ever
becomes a real liability to the Republican politicians in Congress, he is
toast. He is eminently impeachable in a
couple of ways – first he is in obvious violation of the Emoluments Clause of
the constitution, and second, the investigations into his collusion with the
hostile government of Russia in order to get elected grinds on despite his
efforts to distract us all with his song and dance show. Only the Reps can impeach him, but it is not all
that unlikely given his unquestioned ability to dramatically screw things up.
Being a real
president is hard work – who knew? It’s
probably time for him to pull a Palin and resign to pursue his true passion as
a media star.
