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applegrove

(118,616 posts)
Fri Aug 11, 2017, 05:48 PM Aug 2017

Trump Prefers Role as Chief Commentator

https://politicalwire.com/2017/08/11/trump-prefers-role-chief-commentator/

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President Trump’s threats against North Korea “have highlighted as never before the tension between the president’s duties as chief executive and the role he often seems to prefer as the country’s highest-profile TV and Internet commentator,” the Los Angeles Times reports.

“The frequent disconnect between Trump’s words and actual policy has been visible for months. On major issues — healthcare, trade, taxes — as well as on more specific questions such as whether transgender Americans may serve in the military, Trump has made declarations that the rest of the administration and Congress have often ignored or sidetracked.”

“The current situation differs from those earlier examples because of the context and risk. In the fraught standoff with North Korea, where miscommunication or misunderstanding could trigger a devastating war, the question of how to react to Trump has taken on tremendous gravity.”


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Trump would be more successful as president Turbineguy Aug 2017 #1

Turbineguy

(37,317 posts)
1. Trump would be more successful as president
Fri Aug 11, 2017, 05:56 PM
Aug 2017

with a Democratic controlled Congress. His crazy shit would go nowhere and his (very few) good ideas would happen. Instead he's hampered with republicans who can't govern. They can't even pass his crazy shit and have no interest in the good stuff.

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