Trump Thread

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He's done this media frenzy to himself. The WH's first press briefing was combative toward all the major news networks, claimed the inauguration crowd was larger than it was and contested the results of an election he had won. All because he couldn't believe that he didn't win the popular vote. That's without even discussing Sean Spicer's demeanor as the spokesperson.

Before he was sworn in he was undermining the sitting President by tweeting complaints about Obama's diplomacy, executive orders and all the mean time failing to find people to fill in the many roles that the government requires.
Out of the 188 Ambassador's positions the State department has we still have 52 vacancies with no nominations, including for major allies like Germany. That's after he fired 80 ambassadors all at once without thought for replacements.

After he won the election he apparently had no plan on transferring control of his business, if the media hadn't made the stink necessary it's possible that he'd be attempting to run his business and the country at the same time.

Not to mention that throughout his whole transition period he continued denying that Russia was behind anything in the election, undermined intel reports that said otherwise etc..

In summary he's brought the media attention constantly on himself through his ignorant and wrong tweeting before and after the election and inauguration. He's brought the Russia issue to the fore because he continues to downplay any involvement of the Russia thereby highlighting their involvement.

I'll agree that the establishment loathe him as well the the media but what has he done or even attempted to do to correct that? Calling everything that's uncomfortable to talk about or negative about you fake news certainly won't get you support from them. Undermining your spokes-people by tweeting thoughts contrary to the spin that they just did to put him in a better light he counter productive too.

Leaving him to fail on his own is the wrong method, we don't need him blundering and bullying his way for 3 and half more years. If he truly wants to do good then perhaps he needs to listen to his advisers, lawyers, and the leaders of the establishment that conducting the business of President requires. When he screws up, makes false statements, undermines his staff, and denies the blatant involvement of Russia it is the duty of the media to call him out and not let up.

George W. Bush and Obama endured no shortage of criticism. Bush had to deal with his legitimacy actually being contested due to the Florida recount issues and butterfly ballots. Remember that TV Show "That's My Bush!" which straight up mocked him for months in a manner far worse than the SNL skits. Obama had to deal with the ire of the Hillary supporters that think he stole her turn to be president as well as the economic collapse that had happened just before the elections. Not to mention the 'birthers' (including Trump) that outright deny that he was even eligible to be President.

The establishment probably wants him to do something of note but he's making no effort to lead the way on any legislation or agenda. He's completely hands off anything that can't be done with an Executive Order. He couldn't even sign the sanctions on Russia today without whining about it, despite it being a bi-partisan success story.