-- Not Twitter
https://townhall.com/columnists/michaelbarone/2019/04/26/the-most-successful-presidents-keep-to-themselves--not-twitter-n2545422
"The Mueller
report makes Trump look vain, ignorant, inept, and astonishingly
dishonest." So writes my Washington Examiner colleague Quin
Hillyer, never an enthusiast of President Donald Trump.
He refers to many passages of the report: one that shows the
president ordering his White House counsel to arrange the firing of the special
counsel and then ordering the counsel to state in writing he never said that;
one suggesting that Trump was dangling pardons to cooperative aides; and others
in which Trump vents his rage at the protracted investigation, which
eventually, after almost two years, found no evidence that he or his people
colluded with Russia.
House
Democrats are looking hard to find something a bare majority of House members
will find a plausible basis for impeachment. They will ignore the fact that
Trump's aides -- notably, former White House counsel Donald McGahn -- refused
to carry out his orders or ignored his suggestions. They will call this
obstruction of justice, even though it's nothing more than thinking bad
thoughts -- out loud.
That's not an offense that will get him removed from office
by two-thirds of the Senate. But it is a species of political malpractice, one
that may lead the voters to remove him in November 2020.
And it's very different from the modus operandi of the three
most successful presidents of the last 90 years, Franklin Roosevelt, Dwight
Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan, who won their second terms with an average of 59
percent of the popular vote.
Donald
Trump shares all but his innermost thoughts with us. Moments of irritation and
elation prompt instant tweets, full of execration and exultation, respectively.
Not so with Roosevelt, Eisenhower and Reagan. Each of them
projected an image of friendliness and cheer. Each seemed to have shared the
tastes and gut instincts of ordinary people.
But none of the three had any really close friends, any aides
or companions with whom they shared their plans and to whom they revealed their
reactions to people and events. Each had gone through a long period of enforced
idleness, an enforced hibernation in what are, for most professionals, their
peak years -- Roosevelt bedridden with polio, Eisenhower stuck as lieutenant
colonel, Reagan with his declining movie career. Each then suddenly gained
great fame, Roosevelt and Reagan as governors of the nation's largest states,
Eisenhower as commander of the nation's largest military operation.
Each came to the presidency used to great responsibility and accustomed to long
loneliness. As president, each kept his strategy and most of his tactics to
himself. None seems to have fully trusted or confided in anyone for any
extended period. None seems to have wanted the public to know how knowledgeable
and well-read he was, and each managed to fool historians on that point as
well.
There are some, but only a few, resemblances between these
three presidents and Donald Trump. Trump did enjoy success and gain fame early,
and perhaps there was a form of enforced hibernation during his near-bankruptcy
in the 1990s. He seems to share the tastes and instincts of many ordinary
people.
But he has nothing like the self-discipline apparent in the
determination of Roosevelt, Eisenhower and Reagan to keep their long-term
strategies and as much as possible of their short-term tactics to themselves.
Roosevelt cordially disliked some political allies; Eisenhower had a volcanic
temper; Reagan had his pet hates -- but they all kept these things secret from
the public and, mostly, from their closest aides as well.
The
contrast with Donald Trump is obvious. You can get his instant responses to
just about any public events or political developments by signing up for his
Twitter feed. Former aides, political allies and rank-and-file supporters have
all suggested, multiple times, that someone grab and hide the cellphone on
which he tweets. No one has done it.
It's obviously foolish for Democrats to follow the advice of
Trump haters in the media and impeach Trump for making comments and threats he
and his subordinates never acted on. Nor is expressing rage at an investigation
evidence of guilt, as CNN's Jeffrey Toobin argues, even after special counsel
Robert Mueller found no collusion with Russia. Vagrant musings should not be
the basis for overturning the result of a presidential election.
But neither is the dismissal of charges evidence that Trump's
undisciplined self-exposure is the best way to govern. Maybe he should click
off cable news and read a few books to see how his three most successful recent
predecessors managed to keep to themselves.
Michael Barone is a senior political analyst for the
Washington Examiner, resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and
longtime co-author of The Almanac of American Politics.
PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES DONALD TRUMP: Pathological
liar, swindler, con man, huckster, golfing cheat, charity foundation fraudster,
tax evader, adulterer, porn whore chaser and servant of the Saudis dictators
THE TRUMP FAMILY FOUNDATION SLUSH FUND…. Will they see jail?
VISUALIZE REVOLUTION!.... We know where they live!
“Underwood is a Democrat and is seeking millions of dollars
in penalties. She wants Trump and his eldest children barred from running other
charities.”
ANN COULTER
TRUMP’S
PARASITIC FAMILY
Jared’s BFF, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin
Salman (MBS), and the crown prince of Abu Dhabi, Muhammad bin Zayed (MBZ),
refer to Jared as “the clown prince.” Bone-cutter MBS assured those around him
that he had Jared “in my pocket.”
Following meetings at the White House and also with
the Kushners over their 666 Fifth Avenue property, former Qatari Prime Minister
Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim reported back to the emir that “the people atop the new
administration were heavily motivated by personal financial interest.”
“Truthfully, It Is Tough To Ignore Some
Of The
Gross Immoral Behavior By The President” WASHINGTON
POST
TRUMP’S
CRAP ON BORDERS AND HIS PRETEND WALL IS ONLY ONE MORE TRUMP HOAX!
*
Only a
complete fool would believe that Trump is any more for American Legal workers
than the Democrat Party for Billionaires and Banksters!
*
“Trump
Administration Betrays Low-Skilled American Workers.”
*
The
latest ad from the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) asks Trump
to reject the mass illegal and legal immigration policies supported by Wall
Street, corporate executives, and most specifically, the GOP mega-donor Koch
brothers.
*
Efforts by the big business
lobby, Chamber of Commerce, Koch brothers, and George W. Bush Center include
increasing employment-based legal immigration that would likely crush the historic wage gains that Trump has delivered
for America’s blue collar and working class citizens.
*
Mark
Zuckerberg’s Silicon Valley investors are uniting with the Koch network’s
consumer and industrial investors to demand a huge DACA amnesty
*
A handful of
Republican and Democrat lawmakers are continuing to tout a plan that gives
amnesty to nearly a million illegal aliens in exchange for some amount of
funding for President Trump’s proposed border wall along the U.S.-Mexico
border.
///
THE DEATH OF THE
AMERICAN MIDDLE-CLASS
THE ASSAULT ON THE AMERICAN WORKER BY
PHONY POPULIST SWAMP KEEPER TRUMP
Companies say they often pay good
wages to their imported H-2B workers, often around $15 per hour. But that price
is below the wages sought by Americans for the seasonal work which leaves them
jobless in the off-season. The lower wages paid to H-2Bs also allows companies
to pay lower wages to their American supervisors. NEIL MUNRO
///
WHAT WILL TRUMP AND
HIS PARASITIC FAMILY DO FOR MONEY???
JUST ASK THE
SAUDIS!
*
*
JOHN DEAN: Not
so far. This has been right by the letter of the special counsel’s charter.
He’s released the document. What I’m looking for is relief and
understanding that there’s no witting or unwitting likelihood that the
President is an agent of Russia. That’s when I’ll feel comfortable, and no
evidence even hints at that. We don’t have that yet. We’re still in the process
of unfolding the report to look at it. And its, as I say, if [Attornery General
William Barr] honors his word, we’ll know more soon.
*
“Our entire crony capitalist system, Democrat and
Republican alike, has become a kleptocracy approaching par with
third-world hell-holes. This is the way a great country is raided by
its elite.” ---- Karen McQuillan AMERICAN THINKER
///
ANN COULTER EXPOSES
TRUMP’S “WALL” HOAX
In fact, Trump is steadily moving in the precise opposite
direction of what he promised.
Illegal immigration is on track to hit the highest levels in
more than a decade, and Trump has willfully decided to keep amnesty advocates
Jared, Ivanka, Mick Mulvaney, Marc Short, and Mercedes Schlapp in the White House.
For all his talk about immigration, did he ever consider hiring people who
share his MAGA vision?
///
TRUMP’S CATCH AND RELEASE… all the “cheap” labor climbing our
borders, jobs and welfare lines!
*
THE ENTIRE REASON TRUMP
NOMINATED KIRSTJEN NIELSEN WAS BECAUSE OF HER LONG HISTORY OF ADVOCATING OPEN
BORDERS TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED!
*
In newly confirmed federal data from the Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE) agency, Breitbart News has learned the massive scale and
scope of DHS’s ramped up Catch and Release policy.
For months, DHS officials have said privately that the Catch and
Release program has been taken to new heights, while ICE
union officials declared this week that the program was
in “overdrive” under the direction of DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen. JOHN BINDER
TRUMP AND THE
MURDERING 9-11 MUSLIM SAUDIS…
Why is the Swamp
Keeper and his family of parasites up their ar$es??
///
TRUMP’S TAX BILL:
A massive tax cut
for his plundering Goldman Sachs infested administration.
///
TRUMP’S SECRET
AMNESTY, WIDER OPEN BORDERS DOCTRINE TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED.
"During the same month that
Schlafly had backed Trump for his “America First”
agenda, Nielsen’s committee
released an ideologically-globalist report, promoting
the European migrant crisis
as a win for big business who would profit greatly
from a never-ending stream
of cheap, foreign migrants."
///
TRUMPERNOMICS FOR THE
RICH…. and his parasitic family!
Report:
Trump Says He Doesn't Care About the National Debt Because the Crisis Will Hit
After He's Gone
"Trump's
alleged comment is maddening and disheartening,
but at least he's being straightforward about his indefensible
and self-serving neglect. I'll leave you with this reminder of the scope of the problem, not that anyone in power is going to do a damn thing about it."
but at least he's being straightforward about his indefensible
and self-serving neglect. I'll leave you with this reminder of the scope of the problem, not that anyone in power is going to do a damn thing about it."
///
TRUMPERNOMICS:
THE RICH APPLAUD TWITTER’S
TRUMP’S TAX CUTS FOR THE SUPER RICH!
"The tax overhaul would mean an unprecedented windfall for the
super-rich, on top
of the fact that virtually all income gains during the period of
the supposed
recovery from the financial crash of 2008 have gone to the top 1
percent income
bracket."
TRUMPS INFORMS NARCOMEX:
THE PACT BETWEEN
MEXICO AND TRUMP… NO WALL, NO REAL ENFORCEMENT.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/08/did-trump-promise-mexico-no-pardon-for.html
///
Swamp Keeper Trump prepares
for the inevitable move to impeach him and ask for asylum in Scotland.
Fox News host Tucker Carlson
said in an interview Thursday that President Donald Trump has succeeded as a
conversation starter but has failed to keep his most important campaign
promises.
“His chief promises were
that he would build the wall, de-fund Planned Parenthood, and repeal Obamacare,
and he hasn’t done any of those things,” Carlson told Urs Gehriger of the Swiss weekly Die Weltwoche.
TRUMP POSITIONS HIMSELF FOR IMPEACHMENT
MAY LEAVE THE COUNTRY FOR HIS GOLF COURSE IN
SCOTLAND
*
“Truthfully, It Is Tough To Ignore Some Of The Gross Immoral Behavior
By The President” WASHINGTON POST
*
“Mueller and the anti-Trump camp within the ruling elite know
very well that the billionaire New York real estate and gambling
speculator-turned president is mired in criminal activity, which is certain to
be reflected in the material seized from Cohen. They have Trump by the throat,
and Trump knows it.”
*
“Our entire crony
capitalist system, Democrat and Republican alike, has become a kleptocracy
approaching par with third-world hell-holes. This is the way a great
country is raided by its elite.” ----Karen McQuillan AMERICAN THINKER
*
Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen testified before the House Oversight
Committee Wednesday that the “whole Trump family” was potentially
comprised by a foreign power ahead of the 2016 presidential election.
///
SWAMP KEEPER TRUMP’S BIGGEST DEAL EVER:
Saving the 9-11 invading Saudis’ arses!
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/11/mike-lee-swamp-keeper-trump-and-his.html
"I doubt that
Trump understands -- or cares about -- what message he's sending. Wealthy
Saudis, including members of the extended royal family, have been his patrons
for years, buying his distressed properties when he needed money.
“The Wahhabis finance thousands of
madrassahs throughout the world where young boys are brainwashed into becoming
fanatical foot-soldiers for the petrodollar-flush Saudis and other emirs of the
Persian Gulf.” AMIL
IMANI
I
recommend that Ignatius read Raymond Ibrahim's outstanding book Sword and Scimitar, which contains accounts of dynastic succession in
the Muslim monarchies of the Middle East, where standard operating procedure
for a new monarch on the death of his father was to strangle all his
brothers. Yes, it's awful. But it has been happening for
a very long time. And it's not going to change quickly, no matter
how outraged we pretend to be. MONICA
SHOWALTER
SWAMP KEEPER TRUMP’S SECRET SAUDI MISSION:
“You saved my a rse again and again… So, I’ll
save yours like Bush and Obama did!
WHO IS FINANCING ALL THE TRUMP AND
SON-IN-LAW’S REFINANCING SCAMS???
FOLLOW THE MONEY!
"I doubt that
Trump understands -- or cares about -- what message he's sending. Wealthy
Saudis, including members of the extended royal family, have been his patrons
for years, buying his distressed properties when he needed money. In the early
1990s, a Saudi prince purchased Trump's flashy yacht so that the
then-struggling businessman could come up with cash to stave off personal
bankruptcy, and later, the prince bought a share of the Plaza Hotel, one of
Trump's many business deals gone bad. Trump also sold an entire floor of his
landmark Trump Tower condominium to the Saudi government in 2001."
“The Wahhabis finance thousands of
madrassahs throughout the world where young boys are brainwashed into becoming
fanatical foot-soldiers for the petrodollar-flush Saudis and other emirs of the
Persian Gulf.” AMIL
IMANI
I recommend that Ignatius read Raymond
Ibrahim's outstanding book Sword and Scimitar, which contains accounts of dynastic succession in
the Muslim monarchies of the Middle East, where standard operating procedure
for a new monarch on the death of his father was to strangle all his
brothers. Yes, it's awful. But it has been happening for
a very long time. And it's not going to change quickly, no matter
how outraged we pretend to be. MONICA
SHOWALTER
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