Trump Already Putting His Feet Up

Early indications are that he will not attempt to govern. 😆

"Time magazine’s interview with President-elect Donald Trump, published yesterday, revealed a man who was so desperate to be reelected to the presidency that he constructed a performance that he believed would woo voters, but who has no apparent plans for actual governance.

Trump deliberately patterned the Republican National Convention where he accepted the party’s nomination for president on a professional wrestling event, even featuring a number of professional wrestlers. It appears now that the campaign itself was, similarly, a performance—possibly, as Tom Nichols of The Atlantic suggested, simply to avoid the threat of conviction in one of the many federal or state cases pending against him. In the Time interview, Trump called his campaign “72 Days of Fury.”

During the campaign, Trump repeatedly promised he would “slash” the prices that soared during the post-pandemic economic recovery, although in fact they have been largely stable for the past two years. He hammered on the idea that he would erase transgender Americans from public life—the Republicans invested $215 million in ads that pushed that theme, making it a key cultural battle. He and his surrogates attacked immigrants, lying that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, for example, were eating local pets and that Aurora, Colorado, a suburb of Denver, had been taken over by Venezuelan gangs, and falsely claiming that the Biden administration had opened the southern border.

The Time interview suggests that, now that he has won back power, Trump has lost interest in the promises of the campaign.

Notably, when a Time journalist asked Trump if his presidency would be a failure if he doesn’t bring the price of groceries down, he answered: “I don't think so. Look, they got them up. I'd like to bring them down. It's hard to bring things down once they're up. You know, it's very hard. But I think that they will.” He then pivoted to a different subject, and that was all he had to say about the price of groceries.

When the journalist asked Trump about the current attempt of Republican lawmakers to force transgender women to use men’s bathrooms, Trump indicated he didn’t really want to talk about it, noting that “it's a very small number of people we're talking about, and it's ripped apart our country.” Caitlyn Jenner, who is herself transgender, is a frequent guest at Mar-a-Lago and has indicated she uses the women’s bathroom there.

Asked whether he would reverse Biden’s protections for transgender children under the Title Nine section of the Education Amendments of 1972, prohibiting sex-based discrimination in schools, Trump clearly hadn’t given the issue much thought. Although it was this expansion that fed Trump’s rhetorical fury over what Republicans claimed was boys participating in girls’ sports, he answered simply:” I'm going to look at it very closely. We're looking at it right now. We're gonna look at it. We're gonna look at everything. Look, the country is torn apart. We're gonna look at everything.”

Trump’s response to the interviewer about immigration can’t really be parsed because it remains based in a completely false version of the actual conditions, including that the Biden administration has admitted more than 13,000 murderers to the U.S.—which has been repeatedly debunked—and that other countries are emptying “people from mental institutions” into the U.S., an apparent misunderstanding of the word “asylum” in immigration. Under both U.S. and international law, a person fleeing violence or persecution has the right to apply for protection, or asylum, in another country.

If Trump has now abandoned the performance he used to win the election, Trump’s planned appointments to office reveal that the actual pillars of his presidency will be personal revenge, the destruction of American institutions, and the use of political office for gain, also known as graft."

@spruce112358 said
Early indications are that he will not attempt to govern. 😆

"Time magazine’s interview with President-elect Donald Trump, published yesterday, revealed a man who was so desperate to be reelected to the presidency that he constructed a performance that he believed would woo voters, but who has no apparent plans for actual governance.

Trump deliberately patte ...[text shortened]... merican institutions, and the use of political office for gain, also known as graft."

- HCR

@spruce112358 said
Early indications are that he will not attempt to govern. 😆

"Time magazine’s interview with President-elect Donald Trump, published yesterday, revealed a man who was so desperate to be reelected to the presidency that he constructed a performance that he believed would woo voters, but who has no apparent plans for actual governance.

Trump deliberately patte ...[text shortened]... merican institutions, and the use of political office for gain, also known as graft."

- HCR

@Indonesia-Phil said
Surely your quoted article must be mistaken.

@spruce112358 said
Early indications are that he will not attempt to govern. 😆

"Time magazine’s interview with President-elect Donald Trump, published yesterday, revealed a man who was so desperate to be reelected to the presidency that he constructed a performance that he believed would woo voters, but who has no apparent plans for actual governance.

Trump deliberately patte ...[text shortened]... merican institutions, and the use of political office for gain, also known as graft."

- HCR

@spruce112358 said
Heh. He's suddenly going to start "working really hard for the American people." LMAO. 😆

@AverageJoe1 said
Give him time. If he just starts firing people will be a nice start. Do you know that Biden never fired anyone? Sue wrote elsewhere that he was the man behind a curtain. Tell me about it!!!!!
Actually everyone in the white house was making all decisions, right down to putting a piece of paper in front of him to sign, guiding his hand to find the pen, which paper l ...[text shortened]... elease.
It is really a laugh when you fellers suggest that ' he won't work hard'. Yeah, right.

@AverageJoe1 said

It is really a laugh when you fellers suggest that ' he won't work hard'. Yeah, right.

@kmax87 said
Well Trump 45 did a lot of work on the golf course, so he has that to beat.

@AverageJoe1 said
Just the way he pumps his fist,

We'll be looking for more leaks like this one: 😆

"A White House source has leaked nearly every day of President Trump's private schedule for the past three months. The schedules, which cover nearly every working day since the midterms, show that Trump has spent around 60% of his scheduled time over the past 3 months in unstructured 'Executive Time.'"

That will only increase. Look for 80-90% 'Executive Time' going forward. 😆

@spruce112358 said
We'll be looking for more leaks like this one: 😆

"A White House source has leaked nearly every day of President Trump's private schedule for the past three months. The schedules, which cover nearly every working day since the midterms, show that Trump has spent around 60% of his scheduled time over the past 3 months in unstructured 'Executive Time.'"

That will only increase. Look for 80-90% 'Executive Time' going forward. 😆

@spruce112358 said
You got severely conned. Manipulated. Suckered. 😆

But don't feel bad. If we have to categorize Trump in the future, he will end up with the title "One of the Biggest Conmen in History"!

So no shame, You didn't realize because you have a teeny-tiny little brain, @AverageJoe1. You listened to "experts" because they wore short skirts and sat at transparent news desks - THAT was your mistake. They were pretty, and sexy; but sadly not real experts. 😆

@spruce112358 said
We'll be looking for more leaks like this one: 😆

"A White House source has leaked nearly every day of President Trump's private schedule for the past three months. The schedules, which cover nearly every working day since the midterms, show that Trump has spent around 60% of his scheduled time over the past 3 months in unstructured 'Executive Time.'"

That will only increase. Look for 80-90% 'Executive Time' going forward. 😆

@AverageJoe1 said
You should bring SHouse in here, he is real big on discussing the past. Keeps us on the edge of our seats. And this post of yours...are you saying that Trump's days away were more than those of Biden? I have seen nothing on that. Link? And who is
A WH source? A man could get lost in your banter.