The major complaint of the man who ghost-wrote The Art of the Deal was the Trump had a very short attention span-- almost to the point that it seemed like there was something wrong with him.
It makes me wonder if Trump would actually survive a whole four years as president. Does anyone think that he’d just get bored or frustrated and resign after 18 months? Does anyone think the possibility, or maybe allowability, of doing that is in the back of his mind even while he’s running? I mean, the man makes up his own rules. How much does he really care about the constituency?
I don’t really think his goal is to be president, so much as to get elected. I wonder if he’s even thought beyond that. Maybe he’s thought about the inaugural ball, and that’s it. Anyone else wonder about this?
Mr. Trump has run for president or has been “thinking” of running since the late 1980s. There is a timeline here. I think that he thought it was something he needed to do to keep his name in the spotlight, to increase the value of his brand.
The last time that I went to the UK, I got nothing but crap, from everyone, about W. I don’t think it’ll be safe to go out into the world during a Trump presidency. (Of course, if I go back to the UK, I’ll just remind them about the Brexit.) Stupidity is not an exclusively American value.
I think he’d stay long after most people got fed up and wished he’d resign and make a spectacle of himself without worrying about the state of the country. He’ll get so much more attention as current President than former President.
People said the same thing about his campaign, that he would get bored and quit. The Presidency is what one makes of it; I can’t imagine why he would get bored of it.
There was a newspaper article not long ago claiming that Trump, if elected, planned to just have his VP handle foreign and domestic policy.
Now, you can take that with plenty of grains of salt; the reporter said that someone working for Kasich said that Trump Jr said it on behalf of Trump Sr; and even given a game of telephone that played out accurately, Trump says a lot of things that simply aren’t so. But if it’s all true, and if Pence took the deal Kasich turned down, then there’s nothing for Trump to really get bored with; he can bask in publicity as a celeb who gets VIP treatment – which I figure is his plan if he loses.
I can’t imagine Trump listening to anyone else, including his Vice President. I’m speculating Trump will give Pence just enough nominal authority that he can try to dump the blame on Pence when Trump screws up.
He would resign in less than a year. After a few months of having to go into the briefing rooms and listening to people he could not possibly understand. It won’t be as much fun as he thought it would be.
I see him as a lot like Sarah Palin (maybe with a few more brains). At first I didn’t understand why she quit as governor, but finally decided that she was bored and lazy. It wouldn’t surprise me if after being told, say, that he couldn’t just put Hillary in prison and can’t just change the immigration acts by fiat and so on, he complains that he is being dragged down by naysayers that he can’t just fire and quits. Not predicting it mind you, but it wouldn’t surprise me.
There is a story I heard recently that Harry Truman warned Eisenhower that he would be astonished to find that he could give an executive order and discover that nothing happened.
This articleat the NYT sure suggests otherwise. Excerpt:
**But according to the Kasich adviser (who spoke only under the condition that he not be named), Donald Jr. wanted to make him an offer nonetheless: Did he have any interest in being the most powerful vice president in history?
When Kasich’s adviser asked how this would be the case, Donald Jr. explained that his father’s vice president would be in charge of domestic and foreign policy.
Then what, the adviser asked, would Trump be in charge of?
“Making America great again” was the casual reply.
**
Then yesterday I saw Jesse Ventura on some news show saying that since he’s studied a lot of conspiracy theories, he thinks the Trump/Pence combo is a “perfect setup” whereby GOP pushed to get Pence chosen so he’d be (as Ventura kept putting it) “one heartbeat away.” I was a bit surprised that Ventura went so far as to speculate about Trump being assassinated so that Pence would step in as president, all according to this conspiratorial plan he was speculating about. He even said the perfect patsy, whom he compared to Jack Ruby or Oswald, would be “a Mexican or Muslim” because of course Trump has said so many nasty things about these groups that the public would buy a narrative about someone from such a group wanting to off Trump. And allow Pence to step in as the “real” president. Scary stuff indeed!
