The honeymoon is already over for President Trump

[babylonsister]

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/20/president-trump-honeymoon?CMP=fb_gu

The honeymoon is already over for President Trump
Richard Wolffe
Shocking poll numbers tell of a uniquely difficult path for the new commander-in-chief. And that’s before the inevitable scandals start

Last modified on Saturday 21 January 2017 05.23 EST


Today marks the beginning of the end of Donald Trump’s presidency.

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What passed before as media outrage now has a measurable impact on his presidential polls and by extension his presidential power.

What passed before as a sycophantic discussion with his own attorney now opens the door to endless litigation and the clear and present danger of impeachment.

What passed before as a curious cozying up to Vladimir Putin is now transformed into a multi-agency investigation into illegal foreign payments to undermine the election.

We should not confuse populism with popularity. Trump enters the Oval Office as the weakest new commander-in-chief in living memory. Having lost the popular vote by almost 3 million, he has no political mandate to speak of. And his disastrous poll numbers are hard to overstate.

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Almost every scandal gets compared to Watergate, but very few genuinely deserve to be mentioned in the same breath. Of course, Watergate wasn’t potentially financed by our mortal enemies in Moscow, even if it did involve undermining a presidential election.

The last covert plot between a president’s inner circle and an enemy state was Reagan’s illegal gun-running operation to Iran. Perhaps that’s what Trump means by stealing Reagan’s slogan about making America great again.

Now that he’s the 45th President of the United States, the rules of this game have officially changed. Donald Trump cannot trash tweet his way out his problems any more. The constitution does not provide for that particular escape pod from Air Force One.

The TV star is now the desperately flawed lead in a tragicomedy, the author of his own misfortunes. If our bodies are our gardens, this president has unnaturally orange thumbs.

[BSdetect]

1. He is a very real threat to humanity.

Capable of lashing out at anything or anyone at any time.

A moron with a yuge bad temper and a tiny tiny fuze. No self control.

[elmac]

6. Michael Moore is pointing this out

via his theater marquee about 70 miles north of me

[Eliot Rosewater]

27. If I was David Koch or Newt Gingrich, and my main goal was to destroy working peoples safety

nets, i.e. Medicare and Social Security as well as others, if I wanted nothing more than to wipe out the legacy of FDR, LBJ and Barack Obama, I would let the Russians help me install a crazy nut-job so he could be impeached so my perfect tool, Pence, could take over.

Of course the election is not valid since the russians interfered and we must all agree on one thing, this is not a valid cabinet and WH, not at all, not today, not even or especially not even if he is impeached.

Pence is just as non-credible as Trump, Pence or Ryan, none of them can be in the WH....Hillary won the election, Russians hacked the election.

[teamster633]

2. Always loved Richard Wolffe when he was on Countdown.

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. Putin is already sleeping in a separate bed.

This arrangement didn't last long.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. Yup. Putin's even longer term goal than disrupting the election is destabilizing the USA.

He will tease and toy with tRump and undermine him as it suits him.

When he gets as much from tRump as he thinks is possible, then video/audio tapes will appear that have been held back.

But he will have to choose his moment wisely. tRump might thwart Putin's scheme by running his administration off the rails sooner than Putin thinks.

[ms liberty]

15. Well said...it is what I've said when talking about this IRL

As soon as Trump is no longer useful, entertaining, or he becomes a liability, we'll know what Putin has on him.

[LakeVermilion]

4. Perhaps he is the president with the least knowledge of government.

I thought he would get his dose of humility in the general election. (After all the Republican primary was just a reality tv show.) But he will be on the main stage in front of the World, when he is exposed.

[ananda]

5. Well, why would he or his minions need to know anything ..

.. about government since their intention is to destroy
most of it.

They DO know how fascism works and they have lots
of money and corporate power behind them.

[Dave in VA]

20. ...

Agreed.

Their intent is not to govern, but to rule. Republicans cannot tolerate any idea that is produced by any group other than themselves. I.e., Obamacare. They must be the masters of the uncleansed, the unenlightened, etc.

We must submit to them. Destroy the United States and the rule of law in order to create Baptistan. Because they alone know the truth.

[yuiyoshida]

7. You know when that helicopter came back, the one that carried

Barrack and Michelle Obama, someone should have grabbed Trump and his wife and put them on it too, sending them to some place else... well, than we would have to deal with Pence...Maybe there was room on the next Helicopter...

[keithbvadu2]

17. After Pence, wouldn't it be Ryan? It just doesn't keep getting any better.

[yuiyoshida]

26. I know... you gotta be like....

How many stupid Fcks are there in line to be President. Damn, need a weed wacker, lol!! Kidding Agent Mike!!

[madokie]

8. I told you so

will be the first words out of my mouth when the tRumpites start talking their shit

Americans don't want a liar, a cheat nor a thief as pResident. Neither do we want to become anymore of a theocracy than we already are.

[Amimnoch]

9. "Before the inevitible scandals start."

I'm sorry, but while I was asleep, did he release his tax returns alleviating the concern of his financial ties to Russia?

Was his Trump University judged a viable educational forum providing some kind of benefits to the students?

Is there new evidence that his foundation wasn't just an extension and tax shelter for business operations?

Is there new evidence that he never really was an adulterer?

Was the taped recording of him just grabbing beautiful women by the pussy found out to be a fake recording, and not actually his words coming out of his mouth?

Was the myriad number of women who have accused him of everything from rape to at best gross sexual misconduct proven to all be false claims??

Were the blackmail sex tapes that Russia has on him actually proven to be non-existent?

Were his bankruptcies, failed business dealings, cheatings of contractors proven to be false?

Are the well documented facts that he and his families manufacturing is largely outside of the US proven to be incorrect?

Overall, I completely agree with what this article says, but the opening premise that his scandals are something to occur down the road is a bit.. well.. misleading in the unspoken assumption that he isn't already bagged down in a large number of scandals.

[ginnyinWI]

12. what the article is saying is

that now that he is President, all of this is now much more serious--or anything that comes up from now on.The past will just be added to the toll.

[ginnyinWI]

11. This really encourages me to hope!

I'm passing it along to my family members who are also down in the dumps today.

[babylonsister]

21. Please do!

We all need some encouraging words.

[Baitball Blogger]

13. My prayer for 2017 is that yesterday was Donald Trump's best day and that he knows it;

and that we will keep reminding him of that fact.

[bucolic_frolic]

14. America has never succumbed to Tyrants

We had our War of Independence, and deposed, toppled, ejected,
removed, and in some cases worse, foreign leaders and those we fought
in wars. If we didn't win Vietnam, or Iraq was costly, or Afghanistan remains
undone, those guys didn't win either.

This will be no exception. Americans fight for freedom. No matter what it takes.
I'm seeing low-level permanent displeasure at this point, the kind of thing where
everyone protests in their own way, could be reducing spending, attenting rallies,
joining groups, blogging, obeying the speed limits - it all adds up.

This is like a company that clamps down on workers with more work, mandatory
overtime unpaid, inflexibility, short lunch breaks. You do your job, but the work
slows down, the quality falls, more inputs needed to package or repair, and
eventually the costs add up. Management has failed to motivate with the carrot,
they only used the stick and it bit back.

[heaven05]

16. yes they did win

vietnam, me and thousands of vets seriously affected by 'Agent Orange", how many vietnamese affected only god knows and they did still run us out of their country back in ummmm....'75.....Iraq, they didn't win huh, thousands of affected vets due to 'depleted uranium' that one disappeared pretty quickly from public view, yet being an agent orange recipient I have not forgotten my brothers and sisters with their problems ...I go to the VA hospital and have seen and talked to vets....afghanistan...history is replete with invasions of that country by outsiders, ALL failed...we haven't won...if by win you mean our munitions were able to kill hundreds of thousands in all the campaigns, yeah we won....

[keithbvadu2]

18. Trump started his Presidency by lying before God with his hand on the Bible.

"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States."

Emoluments

[Thor_MN]

19. I disagree, this IS his honeymoon. It ends when his supporters find out they were conned.

The fact that so many disapprove during his honeymoon speaks volumes about what a horrible president he is. History will put him it the ranks of worst presidents ever.

[pstokely]

22. many of the deplorables will stick with him til the end

be it the end of this year or end of the world, they'll just blame others, they have no way to know they've been conned or don't care

[Thor_MN]

24. He will maintain a core that will stick with him, but he will lose those that believed his campaign

when they lose their "ACA, not OBAMACARE!!1!!1" health insurance, when they lose their jobs in the inevitable economic downturn, when Trump's policies hurt them personally. That's when his honeymoon is over. It just looks like it is now because he is a horrible piece of shit, he is riding as high as he can, right now. We will look back at this as the high point of his presidency.

[hibbing]

23. Doesn't matter

With control of Congress they finally get to dismantle the legacy of the New Deal and the Great Society and get the ruling class their much needed tax cuts. Throw in a big dose of racism and regress on gay rights and then have a big celebration.

Peace

[SCVDem]

25. The Honeymoon Ends

When his Ultra-Nationalistic bullshit make its way into his first speech.

America First?
EVERYTHING will be for America. (The world works through mutual gain)
Military parades and overt shows of force? (What, resuming above ground nuke testing?)

Then he invokes the religious deities to side with us against other cultures he wishes to eliminate.

We all know he means straight white evangelical America. (I thought we were the United States of America) I guess that was too hard to say. OR does he mean South or Latin America. He should listen to Barack's speech from 2004. "We are not a white America...."

This is a Vegas marriage and many of those end at sunrise.

NO HONEYMOON!

(That smirk is worse than Bush!)

When I hear his people cheer, I hear it change into Sieg Heil.