Are you suggesting that this is a “strategy” on Trump’s part?
Right.
Trump is proving more and more to be a Paranoid Narcissist with an Ego that requires 1) constant feeding and 2) can’t take criticism.
These (wait for it)…talk show host…question his sanity…and he turns around and does what?..things that question his sanity…
It’s all surreal…it really is.
If the strategy is no one can talk about how we own all three branches and have no major legislative victories it is working. But it is just a different discussion about the inept leadership.
Trump may take vacations but he will tirelessly tweet insults about Americans. He will never stop tweeting for you and I.
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Are you suggesting that this is a “strategy” on Trump’s part?
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Yeah he’s been doing this for the past 18 months. It’s a big part of how he garnered the majority of News coverage over the other Republican candidates.
You keep saying this, but I have a question for you, why do you care if he doesn’t act in your mind “presidential”?
Are other countries going to refuse to trade with America? Are people’s opinions of Trump going to change? As you said the hardcore supporters will never stop supporting him and I would bet the hardcore haters won’t change either. Are the news media going to start covering him differently? Outside of Fox News, coverage of Trump by the MSM can’t get any worse.
So why do you keep bringing this up? What do you think is going to happen if he behaves in the way he does? What are the consequences?
Oh and BTW he does this stuff on off days so MSM reporters who would otherwise get the day off have to cover him. Just another way to piss them off.
It’s just a clear sign that Trump doesn’t have a governing agenda.
He doesn’t read important documents and doesn’t spend his time trying to advance legislation. He watches TV and feuds with celebrities.
"According to a new Pew Research Center survey spanning 37 nations, a median of just 22% has confidence in Trump to do the right thing when it comes to international affairs. This stands in contrast to the final years of Barack Obama’s presidency, when a median of 64% expressed confidence in Trump’s predecessor to direct America’s role in the world.
The sharp decline in how much global publics trust the U.S. president on the world stage is especially pronounced among some of America’s closest allies in Europe and Asia, as well as neighboring Mexico and Canada. Across the 37 nations polled, Trump gets higher marks than Obama in only two countries: Russia and Israel.
In countries where confidence in the U.S. president fell most, America’s overall image has also tended to suffer more. In the closing years of the Obama presidency, a median of 64% had a positive view of the U.S. Today, just 49% are favorably inclined toward America. Again, some of the steepest declines in U.S. image are found among long-standing allies."
I would also note, while i don’t have any direct quantifiable evidence to back this up, our enemies probably feel much safer committing acts against us when they don’t believe our POTUS is competent enough to stop them.
With the damage he’s done to our global reputation and the reputation of our IC, Trump has made us less of a country to be feared, which isn’t great IMO.
Act Presidential???
I don’t expect that out of Donald J. Trump ever…
I would be satisfied if he acted like an honest, truthful, decent, and respectful human being…
I think we’ve seen enough of this movie to know that’s never going to happen either.
Thank goodness he’s president of America and not the world.
Why would anyone expect Europe to seeTrump who is pushing anti-globalist and pro-nationalist stances to be seen favorable?
And Mexico is one of the most hostile countries to the US so I would consider their lack of confidence a good thing
No answer then?
Ok
Maybe if they started hosting more terrorists we’d start selling them billions of dollars worth of weapons. Worked for the Saudis.
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I remember my first econ class. The guy went on to give this lengthy speech about how changes to the global marketplace and economy had the strongest impact on the most developed nations, like EU and USA, and changes to the global econ had the weakest impact on places like Africa.
You would have been one of those guys that was like “yeah right, this guy clearly doesn’t know what he’s talking about.”
Since WWII, and until the current presidency, the POTUS has been the leader of the free world. No more.
What we expect is for the POTUS to do what is in the national interest. And being the leader of the free world is in the national interest.
No its really not.
All it has done is bleed the treasury with endless wars, destroyed whole American sectors with bad trade deals and hurt security of citizens
We’ll just have to agree to disagree on this point.
Do you disagree with the sentiment that the weaker the leader, the more emboldened/confident our enemies will be?
While being the leader of the free world has produced innumerable benefits (namely avoiding nuclear war and toppling the USSR) there have been side effects.
Rebuilding Germany and Japan was a mistake imho. We should have salted the earth and deported everyone, leaving them smouldering reminders of what happens when you mess with the West. They both went on to beat our manufacturing sector at the games we taught them. We literally had schools of management in Japan to rebuild industry there. That was the birth of six sigma and lean that helped kill our steel industry here.
A bit of a different perspective. Trump wasn’t elected to “lead” anything. His election was a repudiation of the establishment of both parties. Day to day life in the US isn’t fulfilling for whole swaths of the population. They are pissed for some reason or other. Either the establishment adjusts and offers rational solutions to their problems, or more (and worse) Trumps get elected in the future.
Deported them to…
And whose fault was that? And what has happened to the quality of American manufacturing a a result?
For an ancap, you are surprisingly anti-competition.
I would argue his election was more complicated than that, resulting from a unique confluence of events both within and without the country.
That is true.
I just can’t see the argument behind his tweets being non damaging. We could argue about the level (most are immune to it as we basically expect his tantrums now) but how does it advance his agenda?
How does it help to have members of his own party saying this is beneath you, embarrassing, etc.
Each day his focus is on this or his party is talking about this is yet another day they are getting nothing done while holding all the power cards. And it isn’t the Democrats taking the eye off the ball it is Trump himself