04-10-2017, 12:26 AM
The Daily Beast echoes my impression of Trump as an intuitive guy lacking people skills necessary to put together a functional organization. I'll reprint the first few paragraphs of The Trouble With Trump’s White House Is Donald Trump to echo the impression I tried to give above, but the Beast goes on into full fledged anti-Trump rant mode. I would not pretend the following isn't partisan, but it might be relevant partisan.
The article ends with...
Definitely partisan. Definitely spun. More truth in it than I care for.
The Daily Beast Wrote:It took Donald Trump 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles to buy himself one day of kind coverage at the end of another otherwise terrible week. But what the president himself described as an impulsive reaction to heartrending photos of Syrian children gassed by Assad on his watch isn’t a coherent strategy to punish Assad for using chemical weapons.
Even supporters who hoped the strike would show Trump as a he-man leader willing to grasp the saber of state in his tiny hands and rattle it firmly, it failed to paper over the political crisis consuming his White House as his staff and family have become warring factions seeking his favor so that the story has become not about the president’s goals, policies, or accomplishments, but a group of people around him who make the Borgias look like the Brady Bunch.
Trump is faced with terrible options when it comes to rearranging the deck chairs on the SS White House, and those of us who warned you this was inevitable are ordering popcorn. The cancer in the presidency isn’t his staff—though they reflect his shoddy intellect, his shallow impulsiveness, his loose grasp of reality, and Chinese-menu ideology. The problem is Trump himself, and nothing and no one can change that.
The article ends with...
The Daily Beast Wrote:I’m always struck with how a simple phrase from Ralph Waldo Emerson captures politics over time, and how it captures the Trump administration perfectly.
That phrase? “An institution is the lengthened shadow of a man.”
The shambolic adhocracy of his White House is a perfect reflection of Trump’s own chaotic, disordered thought process and lack of mental discipline, and that’s not changing any time soon.
Definitely partisan. Definitely spun. More truth in it than I care for.
Apple - Oxford Wrote:shambolic |ˌSHamˈbälik|
adjective informal, chiefly British
chaotic, disorganized, or mismanaged: the department's shambolic accounting.
adhocracy |adˈhäkrəsē|
noun
a flexible, adaptable, and informal organizational structure without bureaucratic policies or procedures.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.