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procon

(15,805 posts)
Thu Feb 8, 2018, 08:36 PM Feb 2018

Trump spends most of his time NOT being the president.

Between the hours he spends watching TV and then launching petty vindictive wars on twitter, his staged WH photo ops, the scripted VIP meet and greets, his one man stage shows with military or law enforcement props, his bizarre eating habits, the time he spends trash talking all of his perceived enemies, and attending those canned weekend pep rallies, the golf outings or the gala parties at mar a lago, there can't be any spare time remaining for Trump to do any actual presidenting stuff.

Then the real question becomes, who the hell is really running the country? Is it Pence, Kelly, Ivanka, Putin, maybe some cabal of billionaires or foreign agents working in secret behind the curtain? I dunno who it is, but Trump has never been engaged in actually working at governing and his crazy outbursts are being mostly ignored by congress, so who's in charge?

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unblock

(52,277 posts)
1. he's neglecting the duties of the office, but perhaps we should be grateful for this.
Thu Feb 8, 2018, 08:40 PM
Feb 2018

he'd probably cause more damage by actively tending to them.

Matthew28

(1,798 posts)
3. Wish the rest of the
Thu Feb 8, 2018, 08:44 PM
Feb 2018

Republican party would do the same the next 9 months! Go golf every day for 12 hours per day!

lunasun

(21,646 posts)
7. Miller Kelly Tillerson Pence (maybe)who knows . Many depts are 1/2 empty, is it running?
Thu Feb 8, 2018, 08:52 PM
Feb 2018

Perhaps not doing much goes for the whole WH
and its not like Cheney Rmsfeld and Bush at least they were out from behind the curtain , evil as they be
This seems like a free fall mess

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