How Trump has rewritten the rules of the presidency

[babylonsister]

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How Trump has rewritten the rules of the presidency
Dec 27, 2018 11:56 AM EST
By —Jonathan Lemire, Associated Press


WASHINGTON — Mr. Trump went to Washington. And he changed it.

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Taking a wrecking ball to decorum and institutions, Trump has changed, in ways both subtle and profound, how Washington works and how it is viewed by the rest of the nation and world.

“He’s dynamited the institution of the presidency,” said Douglas Brinkley, presidential historian at Rice University. “He doesn’t see himself as being part of a long litany of presidents who will hand a baton to a successor. Instead, he uses the presidency as an extension of his own personality.”

Is this a one-president aberration? Or has the White House forever changed? Whether the trends will outlast Trump’s presidency is a question that won’t be answered until there is a new occupant in the Oval Office, but Brinkley predicts “no future president will model themselves on him.”

There was a time, many accelerated news cycles ago, when there was speculation, stoked by the candidate himself, that Trump would abandon the bluster of his campaign and become “more presidential” once he took office.

No one says that anymore.

Trump himself believes his unpredictability is what holds Americans’ attention and fuels his success.

“I have these stupid teleprompters. You don’t mind that I haven’t used them all night, do you?” Trump asked the crowd at a June rally in South Carolina. “Every once in a while I look at it, I mean, it’s so boring, we don’t want it. America’s back, bigger, and better, and stronger than ever.”

Indeed, Trump brought to the White House the same fact-challenged, convention-defying style that got him elected. From his first days in office, Trump pushed falsehoods about the size of the inaugural crowd and unfounded allegations about millions of illegal voters. He has not let up since.

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Trump’s tweets often trade in public insults that modern presidents just don’t share in public: The Senate minority leader is “Cryin’ Chuck Schumer.” The media are “the enemy of the people.” His own former secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, is “dumb as a rock.”

And that level of insult, at times veering into the coarse and the crass, has bled into the dialogue of official Washington. Outgoing Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, weeks before he resigned in a cloud of ethics scandals, tweeted that a Democratic congressman had struggled “to think straight from the bottom of a bottle.” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi told fellow Democrats this month that the border wall was a “manhood” issue for the president.

Trump has transformed the presidency in scores of other ways, inserting himself into matters his predecessors avoided. He has chastised his own Justice Department for not opening investigations into his political foes. He has threatened to oust the chairman of the Federal Reserve, which prizes its political independence, for raising interest rates because he believes that could slow the economy. With deadly wildfires raging, he criticized Californians for poor forest management. He doesn’t attend national arts events that typically have had a presidential imprimatur, such as the Kennedy Center Honors.

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[Demovictory9]

1. Its so sad

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. Of course. Anyone surprised?

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. That was the plan, we have quotes from him, bannon and putin saying they wanted to destroy

our institutions.

They couldnt do it without the VILE, FILTHY FUCKING deplorables. No good FUCKERS

[Golden Raisin]

4. Aided and abetted every step of the way by

the Complicit Republican Congress, as well as the garden variety deplorable citizenry/electorate.

[gratuitous]

5. Don't forget a compliant media

The media have only recently begun to show signs of stirring from their pleasant dreams of increased revenue form ratings and The Pivot when Trump becomes a real president at last. For more than two years, the media have allowed Trump to do and say anything he wants without holding him accountable for one second. Oh, they cluck their tongues from time to time at some of the more outrageous howlers (quickly forgotten and even quicker forgiven), but their true unrelenting scorn is saved up for comedians who pose for pictures with mannequin heads and actors who say swears about the administration.

[Cha]

8. Exactly what I called out down thread.

[msongs]

6. he has a massive army of twitter users spreading his propaganda all over the internet nt

[Cha]

7. With assistance of the russians and their enablers, his Doormats, and the US M$$$$M..

Fuck the Idiot.. he didn't do it on his own. when he gets kicked out we'll have sanity again.