With neither bombast nor bravado, a presidential president

The Washington Times ^ | October 5, 2017 | Wesley Pruden

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Donald Trump promised in his barnstorming campaign for president, with bombast and bravado, that once elected he would tone everything down and be “presidential.” He was elected and we learned that, candidate or president, the Donald doesn’t do presidential.

But sometimes he does. This week in Las Vegas he became the consoling witness to “pure evil,” leaving angry bombast for another occasion, struggling like the rest of us to show needed empathy, appropriate and subdued anger, and gratitude for the genuine heroics of the men and women who put their lives on the line to subdue Stephen Paddock.

This was a week of memorable misery for the nation, the president showed just the proper sense of occasion, first in storm-battered Puerto Rico and then in grief-battered Las Vegas. His remarks in Nevada were particularly poignant, and naturally attracted a quibble from the mob of another bubble, that he was reading from remarks prepared elsewhere, and probably by a speechwriter. Yes, probably. And so what?

He was not as solemn and as grave as critics thought he might be, occasionally bantering with the crowds who met him in San Juan, even playfully tossing rolls of paper towels into the crowd to celebrate the arrival of the aid. Even men and women battered by wind and rain need an occasional moment to lighten up. The president even reminded the local officials who did it that they have “thrown our budget a little out of whack.”(continued)

[jonno]

Good article - thanks for posting it.

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