Trump's entire presidency is built on smoke and mirrors.

[Drunken Irishman]

Everything he does is so superficial that, in six or so months, it'll be rolled back by, hopefully, Joe Biden. It's all show. Trump, above everything, is just a cheap showman and nothing else. His EOs today? Toothless. Just like his EO on pre-existing conditions. It's all done to create the illusion of relief, the media headline, hoping he can con dumb people into believing it.

In terms of actual, long-term legislative accomplishment, Trump is going to have a stinker of a presidency for this very reason.

[unblock]

1. Sadly he's done enormous damage to the federal infrastructure

Organizations don't recover quickly after they're purged of people with decades of institutional knowledge.

It will take a long time to fix things.

[RKP5637]

6. We'll be lucky if it's fixed in a decade. ... so many things broken that can't just be glued

quickly back together.

[badseedboy]

2. This has made my day.

I was wondering about this earlier, and your informed opinion is music to my ears.

[Newest Reality]

3. As far as...

As far as short-term destruction and decimation of just about everything that's beneficial for us and the World from the Federal Government, he has set a new record that will live in infamy if we can evict his corpulent, lazy ass, otherwise, he will finish everything off.

[Drunken Irishman]

9. Yes. And four more years WILL be devastating.

We have a chance to roll it all back very quickly, though, in January.

[Kali]

4. or to be more blunt

bullshit and farts

[not_the_one]

5. His whole LIFE is built on smoke and mirrors.

He has never succeeded at anything, other than a con.

He will be seen as the EPIC LOSER that he is. And will hopefully be penniless and in jail, while he faces that summation of his life.

[Thekaspervote]

7. Indeed..thank you for posting..and so succinctly

[3catwoman3]

8. And the mirrors are those weird distorting ones...

...that make everything look creepy.

[musclecar6]

10. The man

Is a complete fraud and bullshitter on every level.

[2naSalit]

11. I think so too.

Here's a thing that's been kicking around in my head for a while...

Of all the institutional memory recently lost, much can possibly be restored by those very people returning to their former positions. I suspect that the transition team may make an appeal to all those who would return to start the reconstruction at their prior positions. I would consider it even though I'm retired.