Trump trusts only Trump to say the right thing,
which leads to confusion and chaos
McClatchy Newspapers,
by
Andrew Malcolm
Original Article
Posted By: SurferLad,
10/29/2019 6:18:09 AM
Understanding what the president of the United States is thinking should not be this difficult. [Snip] As you may have noticed, Donald Trump is not only commander-in-chief. He is also his own communications director and in effect his own press secretary. He routinely expands upon and ad libs prepared speeches. The 62,984,828 Americans who voted for Donald Trump 155 weeks ago got pretty much what they wanted — or deserved, depending on your politics. They got an unorthodox chief executive who
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Toby Ten Bears 10/29/2019 6:41:50 AM (No. 220691)
I'm sorry you're so easily confused Andrew... but I don't think "winning" is confusing at all. Why not say, "All this winning has my head in a whirl" then go find a fainting couch.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
ROLFNader 10/29/2019 7:15:05 AM (No. 220711)
As they say-never trust (nor believe) a man with two first names.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 10/29/2019 7:16:58 AM (No. 220714)
And just who in the Swamp should he trust, Andy, old boy?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 10/29/2019 7:22:37 AM (No. 220718)
Malcolm is longing for the "good old days" where the president was managed by his staff. That worked fine in the slow motion world of politics where the thinking is glacial and usually stupid. Trump is from the business world where the pace is faster and more dynamic. Politicians plot. Businessmen create and achieve. Part of the reason we voted for Trump was for a significant CHANGE from the way things have been in Washington. The "uniparty" is a label that reflects that, in Washington, there is a common way of doing business. Yes, the elected officials go out to bamboozle the voters into reelecting them. Then they go HOME and it is back to (Washington) business as usual. We voted against that. We voted to SHAKE things up. We voted for a dynamic and somewhat unpredictable President. Predictable warriors are quickly defeated. Innovative and dynamic warriors surprise and win. Of course the losers whine about the chaos, i.e. the things they are too slow to understand and that leave them standing in the dust of history.
Pundits like Malcolm liked the good old days. The President's staff talked to them and gave them info and stories. The pundits were part of the process. They had the inside track. With Trump, that "special connection" doesn't exist and they find out with the rest of us when things happen. They then have to scramble to figure it out. The pundits also thought of themselves as giving permission to the administration. Plans would be discussed with the larger political community, feedback and guidance given, and when they came to fruition, the pundits would be on board, ready to share the spoils of victory. With Trump, the pundits are as clueless as everyone else and it doesn't make them important or look good. They don't like it. They aren't as "special".
As to the "chaos", just being a surprise or unpredictable doesn't make it bad. Most people are at least a little change phobic. They like the reliable, expected way of doing things. That is sustaining and has its place. But change and improvement happens in the creative "chaos" that we elected Trump for. The vast majority of his actions have had positive and CONSERVATIVE outcomes. Beyond that, the pace and the uncertainty is driving the Left nuts. They can't keep up and they keep doing obviously stupid stuff. The media will report something and quickly it is shown that they don't know what they were talking about. In the old days, they knew what was coming and had time to plan a better, more subtle attack. The dems pull a snitty meeting walkout, and they are quickly Trumped by the removal of a major terrorist and being shunned from the process and labeled as "unreliable" with national security operations. Trump WON and WE won.
Yes, the pace can be breathtaking. But we are DEFINITELY heading in the right direction and it's a joy to see "Washington" so discomfited. The fact that the NeverTrumpers cling to their bitterness is sad but amusing. They are somewhat predictable and therefore LOSERS.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
moebellini3 10/29/2019 7:52:05 AM (No. 220750)
Another freakin moron. Another deranged TRUMP hater. Yes, moron, we got what we wanted. A man who is NOT A POLITICIAN. A man who is not part of the DEEP STATE, not part of the D.C. swamp. We got a person who loves his country his flag and our way of life.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
anniebc 10/29/2019 8:24:30 AM (No. 220784)
Idiots just don't understand.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
kdog 10/29/2019 8:24:53 AM (No. 220785)
I got EXACTLY what I voted for. The daily press briefings were nothing more than opportunities for people who flunked out of business school to show off for the cameras ... grand standing and editorializing in the "form of a question". It had nothing to do with telling ANYONE what was really going on. Trump's "press gaggles" are perfect. We actually get to hear what the executive branch is focused on, and not listen to some twit with a nice hair cut argue with someone intellectually superior to them in the form of previously prepared questions and statements.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Gnana1 10/29/2019 8:27:01 AM (No. 220789)
Oh poop! If you are confused you are a true Trump hater, and have no interest the United States of America, a Republic!
I too only trust Trump to speak for Trump!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
gusman1964 10/29/2019 8:55:23 AM (No. 220818)
This writer reminds me, "You can't fix stupid!!"
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
vandal5005 10/29/2019 9:21:32 AM (No. 220856)
Trump, like most other people working in business, is not hard to understand at all. He said Baghdadi died as a coward. Simple, truthful, and effective. He penalizes countries who compete unfairly through subsidization of manufacturing by taxing their activity in our economy. Good. He 'tells it like it is" and we understand it because that is how we operate. Swamp types understand obfuscation, we - and Trump - do not.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Lucky5 10/29/2019 9:58:25 AM (No. 220907)
I have Andrew Malcolm on my do not read list.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
couchguy 10/29/2019 11:39:11 AM (No. 221016)
Always the idiot, Andrew posts all his own articles under his sock surfer lad.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
stablemoney 10/29/2019 12:07:23 PM (No. 221048)
I only trust Trump to say the right thing too!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 10/30/2019 1:55:10 AM (No. 221565)
The McClatchy Corp is right up there with WaPo, NYT, NBC in lies-per-minute.
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