You’re right—what a fantastic speech!
Maybe a little long to go viral, but it should!
And it underscores just how much, maybe irretrievably, the Ryan/Pence/Priebus nexus has been letting him down.
I saw the video of the signing ceremony for his stupid, Ivanka-pushed bills charging NASA to inspire women in STEM, etc, and what stood out to me beyond the useless and misdirected banality of it was two things:
1) What a shame that he is wasting his early admin, or any part of his admin at all, on this small-bore stuff; and
2) How he didn’t even know, as he was reading their names off, most of the female Senators standing there at the ceremony with him. He didn’t seem either that interested in getting to know them, or that concerned about not knowing them.
He has essentially given the task of working with Congress to one of the congressional leadership’s (Ryan’s) lackeys (Priebus). The admin is going along without a staff—and with a stated, idiotic intention not to hire their own full WH staff even. Priebus is going along with the slow-walking not only of the approval of Trump’s nominees in the Senate, but of sending second and third-tier nominees up to the Senate approval hopper. The admin neither has nor apparently is intending to develop its own key bills to send to Congress. Instead they are “working closely” with Congress, until Congress rolls out its own, pet bills.
I truly think that Bannon and Trump were fooled by Priebus’s pretending to work with them on the campaign all along, and even having some of his underlings working to undermine Trump only when and until they had hope of forcing a last-minute replacement for Trump at the top of the ticket.
I don’t think they realize that when Priebus and the GOPe finally grudgingly went along with Trump over Hillary it was because they were convinced that they could really rig it such that Ryan was in effect the president until they could get rid of Trump.
Trump seriously needs to reboot his executive approach and replace his few, GOPe staffer approach with a many, loyal (and government-veteran) executive management style.
And stop with the dancing around the edges to “show” that he’s bringing back a few jobs here or there: he needs the massive tax cut plan that he proposed to go through in the same reconciliation budget that they are doing the Obamacare-lite bill in. And he needs to press on Congressional leadership (Ryan and McConnell), going over their head to the people about it, to get it done!!!