Trump could resign. It’s clear he isn’t interested in the work and is unhappy with the way he is treated by the press, the Congress, the courts, and foreign leaders. But Trump has had many opportunities to pull out, especially during the campaign, and never took them. His pride would seem to prevent him from resigning.Sometimes I just can't believe that a man who has obviously done well in the business world could be so undisciplined. Maybe he could "declare victory" and leave the field open for Pence.
That means until at least the end of 2020, the situation will remain much as it is, with a president widely acknowledged to be dysfunctional and no way to change that.
Saturday, January 13, 2018
Stuck
The Atlantic: "There's No Way Out - Trump’s presidency may be a dysfunctional disaster, but there’s no apparent way to end it."
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Occam's Razor comes into play here. What is more likely? That Trump is so undisciplined, but magically successful in business, or that that a "Press", provably in the pocket for the Clintons, is lying about him?
I totally believe the press is doing to Trump what they do to all Republicans. But he commits unforced errors that really hurt his own goals.
He can be forceful and demanding without inviting charges of racism.
The Columbia Journalism Review looked at the press in 2016, doing to Trump what they do to all Republicans:
“In just six days, the New York Times ran as many cover stories about Hillary Clinton’s emails as they did about all policy issues combined in the 69 days leading up to the election.”
“What did all these stories talk about? The research team investigated this question, counting sentences that appeared in mainstream media sources and classifying each as detailing one of several Clinton- or Trump-related issues. In particular, they classified each sentence as describing either a scandal (e.g., Clinton’s emails, Trump’s taxes) or a policy issue (Clinton and jobs, Trump and immigration). They found roughly four times as many Clinton-related sentences that described scandals as opposed to policies, whereas Trump-related sentences were one-and-a-half times as likely to be about policy as scandal.”
“Given the sheer number of scandals in which Trump was implicated—sexual assault; the Trump Foundation; Trump University; redlining in his real-estate developments; insulting a Gold Star family; numerous instances of racist, misogynist, and otherwise offensive speech—it is striking that the media devoted more attention to his policies than to his personal failings. Even more striking, the various Clinton-related email scandals—her use of a private email server while secretary of state, as well as the DNC and John Podesta hacks—accounted for more sentences than all of Trump’s scandals combined (65,000 vs. 40,000) and more than twice as many as were devoted to all of her policy positions.”
“To be clear, we do not believe the Times’ coverage was worse than other mainstream news organizations, so much as it was typical of a broader failure of mainstream journalism to inform audiences of the very real and consequential issues at stake. In retrospect, it seems clear that the press in general made the mistake of assuming a Clinton victory was inevitable, and were setting themselves as credible critics of the next administration.”
https://www.cjr.org/analysis/fake-news-media-election-trump.php
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