Neither running a business or running a campaign is like running government. At all. Saying he can be successful at other things because he is successful in some things is a textbook fallacy.
Didn’t Obama say he’d make a good president because he had run a good campaign?
Don’t know and don’t care. Obama’s record as President should be judged by his accomplishments in that office, not by his electoral success.
To put it another way, just because you ace the interview doesn’t mean you’re a good employee.
Does that mean we have to wait 4-8 years to evaluate whether Trump was a “good employee” or not?
Overall, probably. But we can judge the things he does individually on their own merits in the meantime, and make some inferences from them about his general capacity and judgement.
Personally, I think that, for example, [url=“http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/president-trumps-first-cia-speech-9670619”]giving a speech to CIA officials where he brought his own personal claque to provide laughter and applause, and spent a large chunk of the occasion complaining about alleged media misrepresentation of his inauguration crowd numbers
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, does not speak well for his general capacity and judgement.
Still, that’s just one event from his first full workday. He’s got a lot of time to improve, or not.
This is such a weird reply, I have to ask if you take many years to evaluate the quality of a new employee in your workplace?
For presidents I think it can take decades after their term ends to really decide how they performed–too much emotion during and immediately after.
We could probably make an exception in Trump’s case, though, considering how erratic and, frankly, mentally ill his behavior has been.