TPM - "STILL NOT NORMAL: Why Trump's Presser Was So Jarring"
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/trump-press-conference-this-is-not-normalBy ALLEGRA KIRKLAND Published JANUARY 11, 2017, 6:14 PM EDT
The Donald Trump who took questions from reporters Tuesday in his first press conference as President-elect was the same combative, short-tempered figure the American public saw on the 2016 campaign trail, down to the red power tie.
The President-elect personally dressed-down a CNN reporter in scathing terms. He limited his comments on what a replacement plan for Obamacare would look like to a vague promise to repeal and replace the healthcare law essentially simultaneously. His responses were cheered on enthusiastically by a small group of staffers.
In short, two months after winning the White House in a historic upset and nine days out from Inauguration Day, Trump appeared no closer to adhering to the norms that have traditionally regulated the office he is poised to assume.
Russell Riley, associate professor at the University of Virginias nonpartisan Miller Center of presidential scholarship, told TPM that Trumps remarks demonstrated a personalization that you just do not see in the history of the presidency.
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InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,121 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)he just never told anyone except his kids that he was going to take the country's money and put it into his business that he is still going to run
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,852 posts)Butterflylady
(3,537 posts)what does Russell Riley mean by " personalization"? It can't be good.
unblock
(52,112 posts)He's still acting like the same old clown he's always been.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)I took it as an oblique reference to what-is-not-discussed about our Prez-elect, springing from yet another illustration of how he inevitably ends up presenting all issues as about him ("I will fix it and it will be beautiful"--because HE does it).
Amusing that he's apparently adopting immediate (and impossible) replacement of the ACA as a stick to display his power over congress to his supporters. Polls say their confidence in him is sagging sadly. Unfortunately, when he realizes it's impossible he's likely to just deflect to something else that'd please them. Maybe decide to prosecute Hillary or something.
Doreen
(11,686 posts)This is HIS ( TRUMPS ) country. We BELONG to him. He is our DICTATOR. On January 20th we are no longer truly free. I am wondering if he will declare marshal law on the 20th or the 21st. He is positioning his children to take over.
world wide wally
(21,734 posts)The American dream is dead!
Along with the rest of America
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Using the unfit patsy to shove Republican 'policies' down Americans throats.