So far, Trump has been mercifully incompetent - By Dana Milbank

[DonViejo]

“The world is laughing at us. They’re laughing at the stupidity of our president.”

— Donald Trump, October 2016

Stupid is as stupid does.

During the presidential campaign, Donald Trump remarked often on the stupidity of our leaders. He was under the impression that the rest of the planet was indulging in some sort of global guffaw at our expense. “How stupid are we? The world is laughing.” If so, what must the mirthful world think of our current state of affairs?

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In one of the presidential debates, CNBC’s John Harwood asked Trump if he was running “a comic book version of a presidential campaign.” Now Trump seems to be running a cartoon version of a presidency, and he’s Elmer Fudd. His proposals could, if successfully implemented, be ruinous. But so far, at least, Trump has been mercifully incompetent.

He and the GOP-controlled Congress have been on the job two months, but he has signed only nine bills into law, none major. The only law so far this month: a bill naming the Veterans Affairs facility in Butler County, Pa. A McClatchy-Marist poll last month found that a 58 percent majority of Americans reported being “embarrassed” by Trump. For good reason:

Trump’s first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, lasted just 24 days on the job after misrepresenting his contacts with Russia. Attorney General Jeff Sessions falsely testified that he’d had no contacts with the Russians, forcing his recusal from Russia investigations once the truth came out.

Trump’s nominee to be labor secretary withdrew in the face of broad opposition. His education secretary, who suggested that schools need guns to defend against grizzlies, was confirmed only when the vice president broke a tie vote.

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[Gothmog]

1. Great editorial

[J_William_Ryan]

2. So far

But at some point our luck is going to run out, and the idiot Trump will succeed at doing something stupid, with disastrous results.

[Fast Walker 52]

4. that indeed is the major worry... and it's not like the POTUS doesn't have the potential to destroy

the planet with nukes...

[Fast Walker 52]

3. so true-- thank god his evil goes hand in hand with his stupidity

I suspect if Trump wasn't so dumb, he wouldn't be QUITE so horrible, but it's hard to say...