Thanks to NPR for this quote:
You can’t con people, at least not for long. You can create excitement, you can do wonderful promotion and get all kinds of press, and you can throw in a little hyperbole. But if you don’t deliver the goods, people will eventually catch on … I’d never understood how Jimmy Carter became president. The answer is that as poorly qualified as he was for the job, Jimmy Carter had the nerve, the guts, the balls, to ask for something extraordinary. That ability above all helped him get elected president. But, then, of course, the American people caught on pretty quickly that Carter couldn’t do the job, and he lost in a landslide when he ran for reelection.
—Donald Trump, The Art of the Deal
Amen to that — we will have to see if this happens to Trump too. But in spite of a couple of bad weeks, he’s not down and out yet, not by a long shot:
President Trump plans to unveil a new White House office on Monday with sweeping authority to overhaul the federal bureaucracy and fulfill key campaign promises — such as reforming care for veterans and fighting opioid addiction — by harvesting ideas from the business world and, potentially, privatizing some government functions.
—Trump taps Kushner to lead a SWAT team to fix government with business ideas
However it turns out, it won’t be the same old, same old.
That quote from his book will come back to bite him. Big time.
What to me, not an American, stands out are not so much his policies (or rather his attempts at dismantling policies already in place) as the sheer incompetence in full glare of the world. We all find ourselves occasionally muddling through as best we can, and in the hope no one will notice. But being the President of the United States of America is hardly on the same par as burning your favourite pan in a moment of being absent minded, and/or distracted, and in the privacy of our own kitchen.
U
I read an article that said we’re lucky that Trump is incompetent because his ideas are a disaster. I’m not so sanguine. And he never takes any blame — he’s very good at pointing fingers at other people.
We’ll have to see how it turns out. He’s not an ideologue, so he might change his tactics. Sigh!
I’m with U on most of the matters at the forefront right now…although not being even close to USA – miles wise, I am not following all that much of the “head jobman”
No reason to follow it unless you live here. It’s really crazy.
I hope that he does not cause serious damage to your country, its people and relationship with the rest of the world.
Me too! He was hired to tear things up. 🙁