"Trump isnt a president; hes an executive producer of a farcical TV show with bad ratings."

[babylonsister]

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/looking-past-governance-team-trump-places-high-value-theatrics?cid=sm_fb_maddow

Looking past governance, Team Trump places a high value on theatrics
04/27/17 10:13 AM—Updated 04/27/17 10:32 AM
By Steve Benen


White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer was asked a couple of weeks ago about Donald Trump’s 100th day in office, and what the president will have to show for his efforts. “I think what you’ve seen out of this White House,” Spicer replied, “is a very robust agenda of activity.”

I found myself thinking about that phrase quite a bit. The president’s press secretary didn’t focus much on actual substantive gains, but rather, the robust amount of “activity” in and around the White House. Trump and his team may not have accomplishments to speak of, but we’re apparently supposed to marvel at how busy they appear doing … stuff.

Yesterday offered an amazing peek into the Trump administration’s approach to pseudo governance.

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Sure, the picky observers among us might dare to note that Trump isn’t doing anything of real significance, and he’s actually struggling badly to reach his policy goals, but the White House apparently hopes we’re too distracted by the theatrics to notice.

Never mind the incompetent failures, marvel at the “robust agenda of activity.”

We’re watching the world’s most powerful television production, led by a reality-show personality Americans elected to the world’s most powerful job. It’s why Trump signs executive orders in leather-bound binders that don’t do much of anything. It’s why he hires so many talking heads he saw on TV to work in his administration. It’s why the president makes personnel decisions in part based on whether he believes they “look the part.”

And it’s why he seems preoccupied to the point of obsession with “central casting.”

Trump isn’t a president; he’s an executive producer of a farcical TV show with bad ratings.

[Sculpin Beauregard]

1. Indeed he is. He's also endangering humanity for money and power, gained illegitimately, in

plain sight.

[dchill]

2. "robust agenda of activity."

Why does that make me think of Monty Python?