A hundred days. Is this what the next four years will look like? Probably. Is that a good thing? Probably not. But who knows. You can say whatever you like now.
Conflating Arrogance With Leadership
We begin with
emails. Because where else would you start? A successful, if
slightly questionable female candidate runs against a traincrash
male candidate and … still loses? Why? Conjecture: He acted like
a winner, so we made him one. That is to say, he looked
confident. So the electorate decided that not only was he
confident, he was also a good leader. ‘He seems like he knows
what he’s doing’ isn’t always a solid base for a decision. And
the other people that wanted him in office have … different
motives.
Mister (So-Called) President
AKA ‘Hear What I Say,
Do As I Like’. This Administration’s relationship with the truth
is one of the things that make it iconic, in the worst possible
way. They seem okay with using half-truth and unverified
internet sourcing to make statements of ‘fact’ that sometimes
amount to little more than ‘fiction’. A worrying trend,
especially if, mostly due to the Russian scandal, you doubted
Trumps legitimacy anyway, even before all of this.
White Russian
Links between the Trump
administration and Russia were investigated. That investigation
is still ongoing, but Michael Flynn, a senior intelligence
officer had resigned due to communications with the Russians.
Every so often there are leaks or threats of leaks that expose
ties to the Russians, but they don’t seem to sink the
Administration. Mind, this White House is fuelled by White
Anger™, and so this isn’t necessarily surprising. White anger is
among the more irrational of angers. Especially amongst
mathematicians. Proper maths joke.
I’m President And You’re Not
Being president won’t
put Trump above the law or the Internet, and he has tried to be
both og those things; and become the subject of intense and
angry parody (SNL). At least tweeting about certain companies
seems to manipulate share prices directly, and probably put more
money into your pocket. But hey, you can’t have a conflict of
interest if you were never interested in the first place, right?
But who needs to be interested if you’re president.
I Said I Wanted To Create Jobs – But I Didn’t Say How Or
When Or If It Would Happen At All
Job creation? Not
noticeably. In a similar vein, where’s the wall? I’d expected it
to be finished by now. Or is it hard to secure funds? Huh. Who’d
have thought it? Negotiating a hundred jobs, one company at a
time may seem satisfying but it’s slow. At least the Trump
infrastructure projects will create some jobs, just as their
environmental reforms destroy the planet and all reason to work
at all.
Drunkenly Flying A Plane Into A Building Because The
Towels Aren’t Soft
The administration’s been
characterised by its aggressive and ill-thought-out responses to
issues. The Muslim Bans in March and bombings in Syria seem to
be responses that fit this pattern – even if the Syria response
seems like a long-overdue action that the administration was
praised for. There is an increasing feeling that there is no
regard for the will of the people, when those people are not
Donald Trump. Then you blame it on someone, or something, else.
Or register a complaint because the towels on Air Force One
aren’t soft.
My Administration Is A Well-Oiled Ship – Where The Captain
Is Holding A Matchstick
The Administration is rumoured to
be beset by infighting and powergrabs. This isn’t readily
noticeable from the outside, but it also makes sense. A lot.
Most of the Trump team have had to deny this specific rumour at
some point – which at least means it’s on their minds. Which it
probably should be, given that this sort of thing shouldn’t be
crippling an administration. But if there’s one thing the Trump
administration will be known for, I suspect it will be ‘being
crippled by things that shouldn’t be crippling regular
Presidents’ (if there is such a thing as a regular President).
Trump’s Triumph of Incompetents
Healthcare reform
fail and a number of other reasonably high profile smackdowns
(Muslim bans, etc) have limited the Trump Admin’s positive
press. And yet they continue to operate and be incompetent,
which leads to the question; how is this happening and how bad
will it get? I call for a shutdown of all … everything … until
we can figure out what the hell is going on!
The first hundred days is typically a template for the rest of the four years. So, oh no. Oh God. This will be a mess.