DJT Didn’t want to be seen taking instruction from and being cordial to PBO.
DJT is going to hate being president. For one thing, he’s used to much bigger houses.
He doesn’t want the people knowing how little knowledge he has on any issue.
I predict he will quit after about a year. He will be bored to tears and will hate the constraints. Melania will live at his hotel and wave from the window before she flies back to NYC.
You joke (maybe?) but over the last 24 hours I’ve kind of been coming around to this idea, or something like it. It seems clear, in a sort of “water is wet” way, that Donald Trump is the most work- and responsibility-averse person to run for President at least in my lifetime (back to Nixon) and maybe ever. He was always and only in this to push the Trump Brand, and to feed his narcissism. George W. Bush was ignorant, incurious, and lazy, but DJT makes GWB look like fucking Plato, Einstein, and Ghandi rolled together.
And who else had that combination of self-love, almost complete ignorance, a talent for the con job, and a tenuous grasp of English? Yeah, Caribou Barbie, the former half-term governor of Alaska.
Trump already said during the campaign that any work he didn’t feel like doing he was going to fob off on Pence. If he doesn’t outright resign, I think he’s going to do everything in his power to be a figurehead. Fly around in Air Force One, go to dinners and give speeches about how he’s making America Hate Again, bigly, and have so many affairs while in office that Bill Clinton is viewed as an example of what respecting the Oval Office means.
And if I’m right, I think it’s a Good Thing. Pence is a fucking nutjob as are all of the likely candidates for cabinet positions, but - compared to Trump - they may be just barely competent enough to keep us from nuclear war. And that, for me, is where the bar is set for the next four years: No Nuclear War.
Climate - ruined. Economy - tanked. Foreign Relations - ruined. Wars - many. Civil Rights - evaporated (except for gun rights of course). Free Press - jailed. Healthcare - only for the rich. All of this I expect. Just don’t start a nuclear war. We’ll survive and rebuild in 2020.
No, I am actually not joking. Trump is all about Trump. If being President keeps him from being Trump and everywhere he goes people jeer at him, he will quit. And, I think more people will be jeering him as time goes on. They have no idea what they have done.
All the repubs want from him is his signature, they’ll take care of everything else. As long as he signs on the dotted line whenever he’s asked, all will be well. I wonder if they’ve figured out what to do if he refuses to sign something. Hmmmm.
I agree with you Hoagie. The lack of privacy will be unbearable for him. I remember when someone asked Obama what he was looking forward to when he was no longer prez, and he said - going for a walk without a helicopter flying over my head. He’ll also hate that he can’t have a cell phone. Seems like a president’s life has a lot of restrictions he hasn’t thought about, and if he has, he’s figured he can get around them. Maybe he’ll get his lawyers on the USA.