Trump's rule: Everyone must play by the rules, except Trump

[Demovictory9]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-perspec-goldberg-pence-trump-obama-0912-20180911-story.html

"It was very disappointing to see President Obama break with the tradition of former presidents and become so political,” Vice President Mike Pence told “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace. He was complaining about Barack Obama’s broadside against President Donald Trump.

Pence has a point. Although it’s not unprecedented, it is disappointing to see a former president attack a sitting president.

But for Trump’s most reliable defender to invoke tradition — never mind a tradition of presidential decorum — as his lodestar is a very strange thing.

Pence went on to defend Trump’s criticism of Attorney General Jeff Sessions for indicting two “very popular” Republicans, Rep. Duncan Hunter of California and Rep. Chris Collins of New York, on the grounds that the Justice Department violated tradition by bringing charges so close to Election Day. (They didn’t.)

Pence’s shtick, so common among defend-Trump-at-all-costs partisans, is that tradition, custom and norms should be observed by everyone but the president himself. Trump ran as a “disrupter,” the logic goes, so he has a mandate to disrupt as he pleases. Everyone else should adhere to the playbook.

That’s not how this works. That’s not how any of this works.

[Initech]

1. Remember - this is the administration that is literally trying to rewrite the definition of "truth".

If you have to do that, you are guilty. Period. End of story.

[RockRaven]

2. I would only amend your title from "the rules" to "Trump's rules" because

even the rules he claims people ought to be following are of his own arbitrary creation and not representative of any history or tradition or reality, regardless of whether he follows them or not (usually not).

[gratuitous]

3. The Doughy Pantload wrote this?!

Jonah "The Doughy Pantload" Goldberg sticks his neck out for nobody. Going on record again as being against Trump (he was part of the National Review's "Never Trump" movement for the six nanoseconds that that was a thing) can only mean that anti-Trump sentiment among the nitwiteratti is about to bump up again.