Politico Says Trump ‘Surprised That Government Can’t Be Run Like His Business’
As I’ve been saying since Trump announced his candidacy in June of 2015, the vast majority of Americans are not business owners or even business managers, and the idea that putting a “successful” businessman in the White House would excuse his utter lack of experience in government is pure insanity. Add to that the fact that Donald Trump is not your average businessman: he owns a private business where he did not have to report to a board of directors or to shareholders – two checks and balances that tend to rein in egomaniacal entrepreneurs – and we would have a total disaster on our hands. Even many #NeverTrump conservatives knew this to be true, but sadly, about 80,000 voters across three states didn’t get the message.Â
Politico Friday morning published a report that makes clear the total disasters Americans outside the White House are seeing are actually happening inside the White House.
“Being president is harder than Donald Trump thought, according to aides and allies who say that he’s growing increasingly frustrated with the challenges of running the massive federal bureaucracy,” Politico’s report states, noting that Trump’s “allies say he has been surprised that government can’t be run like his business.”
Shocker.
In “Trump vexed by challenges, scale of government,” Politico reports they held interviews with “nearly two dozen people who’ve spent time with Trump in the three weeks since his inauguration.” The people interviewed “said that his mood has careened between surprise and anger as he’s faced the predictable realities of governing, from congressional delays over his cabinet nominations and legal fights holding up his aggressive initiatives to staff in-fighting and leaks.”
Clearly, Trump believed himself when he said he would be doing everything he wanted to do, and by himself. That should have been a red flag for Trump supporters.
Politico adds that “the transition from overseeing a family business to running the country has been tough on him.”
Shocker.
It gets worse.
“The interviews paint a picture of a powder-keg of a workplace where job duties are unclear, morale among some is low, factionalism is rampant and exhaustion is running high. Two visitors to the White House last week said they were struck by how tired the staff looks,” the report claims. “In Washington circles, talk has turned to whether a staff shake-up is in the works.”
We can only hope. Sadly, Trump has made clear when push comes to shove, his inner white nationalism and ignorance win over his other sensibilities.
“Trump often asks simple questions about policies, proposals and personnel. And, when discussions get bogged down in details, the president has been known to quickly change the subject — to ‘seem in control at all times,’ one senior government official said — or direct questions about details to his chief strategist Steve Bannon, his son-in-law Jared Kushner or House Speaker Paul Ryan.”
In other words, Trump is totally inexperienced and totally uninterested in learning what he needs to to fill in the gaps in his knowledge. This is the man who has the nuclear launch codes. Maybe he doesn’t know how to use them — we can only hope.
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