I’m willing to acknowledge that this may in many ways mark a new beginning. The cartoon doesn’t have to be taken literally – it works as a metaphor, too.
OK. I was willing to give him a chance.
So far, he started out with a gloomy, ill prepared, neo-fascist inauguration speech.
He then moved on to whining over the fact that the media reported the actual numbers of people attending the inauguration, while lying about the actual numbers involved.
He then went to the CIA where he repeated his whining about the crowd sizes, (what does that have to do with the CIA?), lied that the news media had falsely claimed that he was antagonistic toward the intelligence community when all they had done was repeat his antagonistic words, then claimed that we should have violated international law (while creating more hatred within Iraq) by stealing their oil, then suggested we might still go ahead and steal it in the future.
How much more of a chance am I supposed to give him if he spends his first three days in office whining like an toddler, lying about his claims, and suggesting that we should engage in international theft of another nation’s resources?
Heh, I substituted the word killer when I read that. I still think it works better.
Cool story, bro. Kind of sucks that God couldn’t use his magic superpowers in a way that didn’t involve giving a dangerous lunatic broad executive powers and nuclear weapons, but I guess he’s doing the best he can. I would suggest, though, that if God is deciding the election by magic, then we should just flip a coin in 2020 rather than going through a protracted year and a half campaign.
I know it’s compelling to have a just-so story that conveniently explains the election and presents it as a positive thing, but this is just utter nonsense.
He was a strong advocate of the birther movement; he opened up his campaign by calling Mexicans rapists; he proposed banning all Muslims from the United States; he won’t release his taxes, despite having sketchy business dealings; he has zero political or military experience, and indeed little experience doing anything besides running a business he inherited; he said in a presidential debate that he wouldn’t accept the results of the election if he didn’t win; he has a bizarrely close relationship with Russia; his cabinet picks are dangerous (e.g., Sessions) or ludicrously incompetent (e.g., Perry, DeVos, Carson); and he bragged about being famous enough to summarily grab women by the pussy. How would all that not disqualify him from being given a ‘chance’? He isn’t just another politician I disagree with (and I’ve supported both Republicans and Democrats); he’s a sui generis aberration and a dangerous embarrassment to the country.
Okay, I gave him a chance, he used his first speech after the Inauguration to rave like a madman at the CIA that the media is under reporting the audience at his swearing in. I’m done.
into the ground!
Trump is not giving himself a chance, regardless of what anyone else is doing.
Most of the important positions he has to fill in his administration are still empty. Instead of running things with ‘business efficiency’, he is very far behind where previous presidents were on day 1, and this cannot be blamed on anyone else.
There are still no nominees for three-quarters of the top 100 jobs. Trump has had to ask 50 Obama officials in essential jobs (national security and diplomatic positions) to stay on.
Many of the people he has managed to nominate still haven’t started the vetting process. As they tend to be very wealthy people, the vetting for conflict of interest is complex and takes time. And since they tend to be highly unqualified and inexperienced for the jobs, the Senate may not confirm them.
Instead of concentrating on actually getting things done, he is instead tweeting, arguing about ‘alternate facts’ and picking unnecessary fights with the media about trivia.
He has gone into office more unprepared, and less able to achieve anything than any other president in modern history.
Trump is not giving himself a chance.