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Politics : A Hard Look At Donald Trump -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (3768)	7/22/2016 1:58:03 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 46928

That's a wish statement. It hasn't been debunked, it's been denied. And the thing is Trump ACTS like it's true because he isn't preparing to be President. They can't get him to read or listen to briefings. He says he'll do that after he's elected, but he won't. He doesn't WANT to and he never will. Can America Afford a Ceremonial President? ..... Trump’s not interested in policy. He’s fine with outsourcing it to congressional Republicans (or congressional Democrats whichever) and to his Cabinet secretaries. Trump wants to do the fun stuff. He wants to give cool speeches and fly around in a better plane. He wants the respect that comes with being president. He doesn’t want to do the hard stuff. For those willing to see, there’s been a lot of evidence of that all along. He’s said he won’t even start learning about policy until he’s elected. That Trump doesn’t know or care much about public policy is obvious to literally every human being who knows anything about public policy. One could fill books with examples of him talking about articles of the Constitution that don’t exist, events that never took place and proposals that make no sense. According to a deeply reported account in GQ, Trump’s daily briefing packet amounts to a printout of a Google News search of articles mentioning “Donald J. Trump.” This is also how he runs his business. He’s a marketer and branding maven. Other businessmen and subcontractors do the heavy lifting. ...... Many Republicans I’ve talked to find Trump’s willingness to outsource actual policymaking to Mike Pence or Paul Ryan reassuring. And in a sense, it is. [ If we could count on Pence being President, that'd make this an easy choice. ] But it overlooks a problem. Because there is so much power in a president’s words, a president’s words matter. Just this week, the GOP nominee suggested that he would not honor our commitments to NATO if Russia attacked our allies in the Baltics. Those words are dangerous from a nominee. They would be catastrophic from a president. [ I think Putin is already preparing for something in Estonia or one of the other states, just based on Trump's statement yesterday. ] A president with a verbal hair trigger — one who doesn’t know enough to know what not to say — could ignite a financial crisis or a war. [ And he would. Heck, I suspect he HAS. ] If Trump could be trusted to simply play a ceremonial role, serving as a kind of corporate motivational speaker for the country, I might board the Trump train. But can anyone say with confidence that Trump has the discipline to do anything of the sort? http://rightwingnews.com/column-2/can-america-afford-ceremonial-president/ That's why P J O'Rourke isn't voting for Trump. Mark Levin, Thomas Sowell, John Hawkins, Eric Erickson, PJ O'Rourke, Krauthammer, Will, and many more. I haven't prepared a list but it's long enough, people should have paid attention long ago.