This is a two-speed president. You have the guy who is charged up for campaign speeches and peppy while in campaign mode. Then there’s the second speed where the guy is like the number nine player on a NBA team....sitting mostly and watching.
He’s never run a business or an operation that was absolutely dependent on a decision process. He’s mostly set to automatic with his chief of staff and top-level team making the daily decisions for him and he’s there to ‘look’ like a president.
I wouldn’t be counting on any 4-star speeches for the rest of the four-year period. There’ll be five or six theme speeches yet to go, but none mean anything. If you had to say this was in lame-duck status so early in the fifth year....you’d be shocked.
That is usually spelled Cocaine.