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Zorro

(15,722 posts)
Fri Feb 17, 2017, 08:07 PM Feb 2017

Donald Trump is showing why hes no CEO

Throughout the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump made much of his business experience, claiming he’s been “creating jobs and rebuilding neighborhoods my entire adult life.”

The fact that he was from the business world rather than a career politician was something that appealed to many of his supporters.

It’s easy to understand the appeal of a president as CEO. The U.S. president is indisputably the chief executive of a massive, complex, global structure known as the federal government. And if the performance of our national economy is vital to the well-being of us all, why not believe that Trump’s experience running a large company equips him to effectively manage a nation?

Instead of a “fine-tuned machine,” however, the opening weeks of the Trump administration have revealed a White House that’s chaotic, disorganized and anything but efficient. Examples include rushed and poorly constructed executive orders, a dysfunctional national security team and unclear and even contradictory messages emanating from multiple administrative spokespeople, which frequently clash with the tweets of the president himself.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/donald-trump-is-showing-why-hes-no-ceo-2017-02-17

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Donald Trump is showing why hes no CEO (Original Post) Zorro Feb 2017 OP
Trump is a fraud and a con man dalton99a Feb 2017 #1
Why another businessman after our first 'MBA' President, GWB? denverbill Feb 2017 #2

denverbill

(11,489 posts)
2. Why another businessman after our first 'MBA' President, GWB?
Fri Feb 17, 2017, 08:46 PM
Feb 2017

The same argument they used then they use again now.

How did that businessman in the white house work out last time?

And let's not forget another Republican businessman in the White House. Herbert Hoover.

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