The president's ego is writing checks his administration can't cash

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The harbingers of doom for the Trump administration


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2017/07/19/the-harbingers-of-doom-for-the-trump-administration/?tid=hybrid_collaborative_1_na&utm_term=.c09440ec4ee4


The president's ego is writing checks his administration can't cash




By Daniel W. Drezner July 19 at 8:00 AM
Daniel W. Drezner is a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and a regular contributor to PostEverything.


President Trump and House Speaker Paul D. Ryan applaud during a Rose Garden ceremony in May after the House pushed through a health care bill. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)




In the wake of the Senate’s failure to repeal and replace Obamacare, BuzzFeed offered up a pungent analysis of Trump’s accomplishments to date:

The White House has lost control of its foreign policy to the military and to allies who can’t work with a globally loathed American leader even if they wanted to. He has lost control of his domestic policy to Congress, which has been unable to give him a signature win despite Republicans controlling both chambers. He has lost control of his own aides to leaks and investigations, of his old television cronies to spiteful personal feuds, and most of all of the narrative of an “America First” presidency with a coherent vision or promise.

“The premise of the value proposition that voters bought into was, this guy knew about the art of the deal and that he could break through ‘Washington,’ break through political norms, and get things done,” a conservative Republican congressman said of Trump. “Things aren’t getting done, and that shows weakness.” …

Trump’s struggles go beyond health care. More than six months into Trump’s presidency, Republicans have no legislative accomplishments other than the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, a confusing foreign policy, and a White House that is perpetually in damage control mode. From lawmakers and governors to donors and foreign policy experts, a certain realization is sinking in within the party, based on more than a dozen interviews in recent days: Donald Trump has been a historically weak and ineffective president.
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1. The Family

of rump was selected or trained as followers of the imagined intelligence of the orb. An IQ level that doesn't rise above the clown. It gives new meaning to "All in the Family".

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2. not only did the deplorables elect a plumber. they picked a BAD plumber.