Trump is a lame duck and the ALL-CAPS president
The president is not present.
He is not a lame duck. He is an invisible one.
Donald Trump’s recent public appearances have been as a spectral duffer on his own golf course and as a disembodied voice in a news release congratulating the U.S. Marine Corps on its 245th birthday. He has fired off a string of outraged tweets, but he has not been seen doing the work of the country as it struggles in the throes of a worsening pandemic and a battered economy. Instead of taking the opportunity to wax publicly and proudly about Pfizer’s progress on a vaccine for the coronavirus, the president has characterized the pharmaceutical company’s post-Election Day announcement of its success as a personal assault on his reelection prospects.
The president has slacked off the job — even as he continues to lay claim to its pomp and circumstance for another four years. Trump seems more intent on burning down the White House — while firing the defense secretary, riling up his supporters and flinging accusations of election malfeasance without evidence — than on vacating it. He has unleashed his minions on the ballot counters and secretaries of state. They are barking up a storm. And instead of updating the country on the state of the economy, the public health, his long-promised health-care plan or the world and our place in it, the president is grousing.
By his protracted absence from a position of leadership, Trump has left a vacuum, and President-elect Joe Biden has filled that void: a calm, smiling force in a buttoned-up blue-gray suit and a perfectly centered blue-striped tie.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/11/10/trump-is-lame-duck-all-caps-president/
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