Poor, poor President. Running a country is harder than running a company!

[thewayne]

Apparently "45" is having a tough time because the United States has all sorts of laws and regulations and that the guy at the top can't just do whatever he wants! So sad!

Too bad he ran for President. He should have waited for the election for Dictator or Autocrat. His mistake.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/donald-trump-challenges-governing-presidency-234879


In other amusements, Rex Tillerson, former Exxon CEO and freshly-minted Secretary of State with no previous experience in government, wanted a person by the name of Elloitt Abrams as his second in command. Abrams has "decades of experience" in foreign service under Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. "45" said no. Abrams wrote an editorial during the election that was very critical of "45" and said Republicans should give up on the White House and focus on lower ticket races. So not only does Tillerson not really know what he's doing, he's denied a really skilled person who does know what he's doing. And all of the senior staff who knew exactly how the State Department worked are now all gone.

WHEEEEE!

https://www.salon.com/2017/02/10/president-trump-nixed-rex-tillersons-pick-for-deputy-because-he-criticized-him-during-the-campaign/

Comments

[dewline]

Sounds like Tillerson had better instincts for hiring deputies than his boss here...

[thewayne]

Slow-motion train wreck. I've been reading about the worker-bees just cringing whenever a new tweet appears, but now that Tillerson is on-board, he's apparently being pretty diligent about contacting his counterparts in our allied countries to assure them that everything is being done to keep business as usual. Tillerson has a tough row to hoe with all of the most experienced deputies gone with no opportunity for handover, the administration seems eager to put their head in the guillotine.

Tillerson

[dewline]

I may end up actually having empathy for that man by the time this mess grinds to a halt.

[moira_j_moore1]

Sometimes I think Trump is punishing America because he didn't get 100% support in the election.

[stardreamer]

That's an uncomfortably plausible scenario.

[thewayne]

It is sadly plausible. The guy who founded Virgin Group, Sir Richard Branson, met with him not long after he had to declare bankruptcy over his New Jersey casinos*. He told Branson that he approached five people for help, all five turned him down. He said that he would spend the rest of his life trying to ruin them. Definitely a vengeful guy.

* Aside from the ridiculous thing that he had a cascade of casino failures, he lied to the New Jersey Gaming Authority. He told them in hearings, presumably under oath, that he would be able to get financing to take over the Taj Mahal project, at sub-prime financing. He said that "banks were calling him daily, begging him to let them lend him money." In the end, he couldn't secure financing and had to resort to junk bonds. When the interest came due, he wasn't able to afford the interest payments because of how lavishly he spent on the project, which let to the cascade and all of the casinos being lost. I've never understood why the NJ authorities never did anything to him for lying to them. Then again, honesty has never been one of his primary traits.