I think Trump will be busy. The VP is usually a useless position. But a good leader should make it useful. Trump’s problem is that he is not a constitutional conservative. While nominally conservative in some ways, he’s really a pragmatic businessman. We need an activist VP to let him know where there are constitutional problems & how to solve them.
One of the first things that annoyed me about Trump was his statement in 2016 that the Federal Gov’t should hold on to land in the states, as they could ‘manage’ it better. Wrong. A) They manage it badly & B) you can make deep cuts in FedGov by getting land back in state hands & eliminating all those departments that manage it. That’s the kind of thing I want to see in a new Trump Admin. Or a new Republican Admin. I truly believe they will take Trump out physically if they can’t get him in prison by election time.
“One of the first things that annoyed me about Trump was his statement in 2016 that the Federal Gov’t should hold on to land in the states, as they could ‘manage’ it better. Wrong. A) They manage it badly & B) you can make deep cuts in FedGov by getting land back in state hands & eliminating all those departments that manage it. That’s the kind of thing I want to see in a new Trump Admin.”
I want to see the Federal land in the states west of Mississippi reduced to no more than the median percentange of land held/owned by the Federal government in the states east of the Mississippi. I want to see that accomplished by (1) given 50% of the land the Federal government must give up returned to control of the states (if they manage it badly that’s a state problem) and (2) 50% of it sold outright to American citizens and American companies (no foreign individuals and no foreign owned/controlled companies), with (3) 100% of the proceeds from the land sales used to pay down the federal debt.
I also want legislation to end and reverse the ability of the executive branch to designate various “preserves” and national parks, without VOTERS consent in the states - not the state government, the state’s voters. I want each current federal land of that type to have to be submiited to the state’s voters to decide if that federal designation should be kept or not. If the voters say no, then land must be returned to the state.
“We need an activist VP to let him know where there are constitutional problems & how to solve them.”
That does not require an “activist VP”. It requires a good cabinet with good legal persons with them and a good AG.