Bad news: Trump is not becoming any more presidential
On three dimensions — temperament, competence and ideology — Trump’s conduct since the election has offered more basis for worry than for relief.
.. 63 percent of voters do not think he has the temperament to be president — including 26 percent of Trump voters.
.. Pick your adjective: thin-skinned, childish, unpresidential.
.. Sixty percent said he is not qualified to be president, including 23 percent of Trump voters.
.. shellshocked Trump team clueless about the magnitude of the task facing them. Really, all White House employees of the previous administration are out the door on Inauguration Day? How were they to know? Um, ask an experienced transition planner?
.. most of his choices so far convey the message that loyalty will be rewarded above all, and that Trump’s election night promise to “bind the wounds of division” was empty rhetoric.
.. This is a man who called the NAACP “un-American,” said he thought the Ku Klux Klan was “Okay until I found out they smoked pot” and described a white civil rights lawyer as a “disgrace to his race.”