Pack Up Those Two Trumps and Take Them Away

[tgards79]

http://www.borntorunthenumbers.com/2017/08/pack-up-those-two-trumps-and-take-them.html

"Remember the days when presidents secured national attention with the Address-From-The-Oval-Office? The President, accompanied only by the spare, somber dignity of that setting, stared right into the living rooms of America, and gravely informed the nation of the business at hand – calm, resolute, decisive. JFK on the Cuban Missile Crisis. Bush 43 after 9/11. Reagan on the Challenger disaster. Carter on the crisis of confidence. No matter your party….did anyone doubt the gravity of the issue? The magnitude of the message? The utter sincerity of the president?

Is anyone really fooled by all these Trumps? Of course not. Not those who support him, who love Trump One. Not those who despise him, who see right through Trump Two. Not even those who are “open-minded” to him – they are the ones who have dismissed him during his presidency, those on-the-fencers who have caused Trump’s approval rating to sink by eight points since January.

How about Paul Ryan? Does he get it? I watched his Town Hall, which immediately followed Trump’s Afghanistan speech. Ryan expressed complete satisfaction with Trump Two in the aftermath of his post-Boston statement, believing that performance more than offset Trump One’s press conference performance and the initial statement. Is that how it works in Wisconsin, Paul? It’s OK to be an utter shit-heel on Monday, Wednesday and Friday as long as you pretend to be a pious soul on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday? Is that what you teach the children in your Sunday school class? "