You’re certainly right he’s signing the orders and he’s giving the “I did that and it was the bestest evar!” speeches.
Is he the one coming up with the specific ideas behind whatever he’s signing today? Is he implementing a plan largely of his devising, at least at the high level, or is he increasingly erratically and un-insightfully playing the role he’s been stage-managed into while his trusted family members tell him just how much money they’ve stolen or grafted each day on his behalf?
In the first term the cabinet was notably dysfunctional with various factions winning and losing favor almost daily. Whether that chaos was trump’s deliberate goal as a management technique or was just a crazed byproduct of his shambolic thinking was never really adequately proven.
We see the same thing beginning to unfold here. There’s purposeful stuff mixed in with random stuff. Is one smoke and mirrors and the other the real meat? Probably.
I didn’t say anything about that. My comment is that something has dramatically changed.
Trump is ego driven to obsession. He is vain. His appearance has been a big thing for him. Witness dyed hair to hide the gray, “bronzer” to give color to his pale skin, multiple hair surgeries to hide his balding, and alleged lifts in his shoes to look taller.
He commissioned a painting of himself that looked trimmer and had better hair style.
His appearance has always been important to him. Now suddenly not only is he not dying his hair, he’s showing his baldness - something he’s fought his entire adult life.
I’m saying there is something wrong with him, besides his politics, moral code, and personality. Something is different.
It’s worse than that. He wasted carefully conserved water to support the farms during the drought of summer by releasing water that won’t go within 100 miles of the fire zones. And almost caused disastrous flooding in the process.
It’s not that he doesn’t understand the intricacies of water management. He doesn’t have the first clue about geography, water use, which way water flows in a given region, or any of the concerns of the people who live there. He’s completely ignorant of even a basic level, and he’s proud of that ignorance. He thinks he knows better than the experts who run the water plan because of politics. Clearly they are wrong, they are liberals.
Agreed, I think he’s going to say he gave them they water they needed and they wasted it. Nevermind that it was logistically impossible for them to do anything with it. It was still the State’s fault for not figuring out how to make use of Trump’s “benevolence”.
Ahhh, the National Prayer Breakfast. That must be from whence his stoopid declaration that there’s not enough religion and something about that being a big problem and we’re gonna work on it
Declaring that Jews (and others) that do not wholly support Israel are disloyal to their real country (boy there’s a fossilized anti-Semitic trope) and are Hamas, Gazans, and/or Palestinians has been a thing for a while now.
