Posted on 12/07/2024 5:35:59 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
WASHINGTON — Foreign leaders have lined up to speak with him. He has rattled Mexico and Canada with threats of steep tariffs and warned there would be “hell to pay” for militants in Gaza unless they release the hostages by the time he’s sworn in.
That won't happen for another 45 days, but Donald Trump, the president-in-waiting, isn't shying away from acting like the president-in-reality.
Trump can't sign a bill or issue an executive order yet, but he is crowding out Joe Biden as the sitting president winds down his term and steadily recedes from public view. In two foreign trips since the election, Biden has answered all of two questions from reporters.
He has been left to kibitz about Trump’s pronouncements — “I hope he rethinks it,” he said of Trump’s plan to impose 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico — rather than drive an agenda of his own.
As for Trump, “his view is that he’s not going to follow rules that he thinks are stupid rules,” said a former senior White House official in Trump’s first term. “His view is these are hostages and if he can help bring them home, then why would he follow protocol if it’s going to impact peoples’ lives?”
At this point, Trump is “already basically running things, and he’s not even president yet,” the person added.
Trump’s penchant for plunging into current affairs is testing the one-at-a-time dictum that presidents are supposed to honor but, for reasons of political expediency or practical necessity, usually don’t.
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I like that you added quotation marks on news...
Well, let’s see, who should we believe, the NBC “experts” who couldn’t even call an election straight or the world leaders who are treating President Trump like, well, like the President?
“Trump’s penchant for plunging into current affairs is testing the one-at-a-time dictum that presidents are supposed to honor but, for reasons of political expediency or practical necessity, usually don’t.”
You mean like Barack Obama’s shadow government?
Yeah, there isn’t a president currently
IF the truth be known, Trump was most likely the POTUS in exile all along. FJB was installed by DS and the communist RAT party and foisted onto America regardless of the vote...heavy cheating to cover the install. There’s no way this useless turd got the votes....no way. FJB has been Odongo’s toy puppet all along.
Things have changed, commies....He’s Back!!! And bringing justice with him.
lol...this story is like an unpopular teenage girl complaining about the prom queen.
When your President, Joe Biden, who is absent when present, asleep when needed, you have to take the steps that the REAL president is taking.
Joe can’t make a decision as minor as which way to walk.
How, the hell, can he be trusted at all for anything but reading the teleprompter.
(He screws that up too!)
Yep.
Exactly, once again the fake news shows their true lefty bias.
💯.
Maybe I wasn’t paying attention all these years, but it seems to me that he’s been more active and pro-active during this time than any other incoming president in the past.
The there's "Z"....the man who buys his clothes at Goodwill.
That's called being a true LEADER!
I’ll bet that Peter “I’m A Gaslighting POS” Nicholas hasn’t written one word aabout who exactly is acting like they’re president in the stead of the senile pedophile...
“…one-at-a-time dictum that presidents are supposed to honor”
Like leaving DC when your terms are over, going home, writing your memoirs, fading into the sunset, and not meddling in your successors administration?
How about THAT dictum?
‘NBC’ doesn’t realize, and will NEVER ADMIT, that President Trump never STOPPED being President to more than HALF of Americans after the STEAL in 2020.
Yeah that’s what I’m seeing too but he is in a unique position having already been President so it’s not like it’s all new to him. This transition period while traditional seems to me in this day and age too long and stretched out. A lot of other nations do the switch in a few days after election that changes a government.
Someone has to step up to the plate.
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