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Hes holding the office but not doing the job.
By Matthew Yglesias@[email protected] Jan 26, 2018, 2:00pm EST
President Donald Trumps first non-Fox television interview in a long time, conducted with CNBCs Joe Kernen from Davos, Switzerland, is in many respects weirdly devoid of substance. And much of the substance thats there consists of misstatements of fact.
But lurking in that is an important insight: Trump is holding the office of president, but hes not doing the job of president. He seems to have no real idea whats going on, even with his own signature policy moves.
Some of his misstatements have the color of propaganda, but often he seems to be caught up in other peoples propaganda or even to have misunderstood his own talking points. Hes disengaged from the details of big questions like NAFTA I may terminate NAFTA, I may not, he says profoundly. He cant even describe his own negotiating positions in the immigration standoff accurately.
Listening to him talk is interesting from an entertainment perspective (he did once host a popular television show), but it conveys no information about the world, the American government, or the Trump administrations policies. If Kernen wanted to help his viewers understand whats going on, hed have been better off interviewing someone else.
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dalton99a
(82,056 posts)SharonClark
(10,014 posts)Loge23
(3,922 posts)The #IPOTUS seems to be speaking like he's teasing us with upcoming attractions on his show.
I really think he's treating all of this like he's running the office as a reality show episode.
KG
(28,755 posts)unblock
(52,772 posts)If they wanted to inform, they should talk to other people. Donnie gets way, way too much airtime for someone with such a high noise-to-signal ratio.
Lucky Luciano
(11,275 posts)llmart
(15,613 posts)I just love the sarcasm in his statement when he says "he says profoundly". LOL
That statement and all of Trump's statements are about as profound as my two-year old grandbaby. No, wait. My grandbaby's statements are more profound then his, so I take that back.
zentrum
(9,866 posts)Doesn't care about anything or anyone outside of me-me-me and Jarvanka.
sinkingfeeling
(51,593 posts)IluvPitties
(3,181 posts)There is a very evil man attacking the soul of our Nation.