I just don’t think it can all be about his personal relationships with everyone. Too much of this administration has been a never-ending game of who does he like, who does he dislike, who is he mad at, who is stealing the spotlight, etc.
As the old saying goes, it’s amazing how much you can get done when you don’t care about credit.
He has a slim majority in the Senate and galvanized resistance on the Left. He has a fractuous crew of Reps in the House.
If you are Mitch McConnell, you probably have a pretty sizable ego in your own right. And you have a pretty loyal crew of Senators who work with you. And you never know if you are going to wake up and see the President from your own party taking shots at you or individual members of your caucus on Twitter.
John McCain annihilating Trump’s first year with a vote is the most predictable outcome of the story that began with his crack on soldiers who don’t get captured.
He has 51 reasonably solid Republicans and Susan Collins. Jeff Flake is going to have a vote until January 2019 under all circumstances. What is the purpose of open warfare with him now?
It’s all kinds of fun to attack Lindsey Graham, but Graham is a nasty political operative in his own right. Again, what is the overall purpose in making an enemy whose vote you need until January of 2021.
And that’s just in the Senate.
Why is his White House so chaotic? Why is Bannon going to the liberal press to trash Cohn by name? Why is he saying that he is the one making military decisions? Why is he the one saying he is replacing people in the state department?
Why did it take two weeks to name an interim communications director when that person was in the building all along?
Why are there still so many positions with no nominations?
Trump’s presidency is not going to succeed if it’s just him having endless Twitter fights with everyone he grows to hate. Because he’s going to end up hating everyone at some point.
Why doesn’t the (D) Senator from your state who hints at helping Trump actually do so?? He voted against the healthcare change.
Agree. Trump has to grow up. Less tweeting, less talking, more serious introspection and cool, quiet action. John Wayne ...he is not!