Rudy Giuliani, one of Mr. Trump’s most zealous acolytes, echoed this cry to carry the battle forward into a Clinton administration. “I guarantee you in one year she’ll be impeached and indicted,” Mr. Giuliani promised Iowa voters this week. “It’s just going to happen. We’re going to sort of vote for a Watergate.”
.. As nonsensical as this strategy appears, these threats could cause real damage by encouraging Republicans in the next Congress to effectively take the government hostage, exacting revenge by making sure that nothing Mrs. Clinton proposes ever comes to pass. President Obama put it well in underlining the dangers. “Right now, because a lot of them think that Trump will lose, they’re already promising even more unprecedented dysfunction in Washington,” he told North Carolina voters this week. “How does our democracy function like that?”
.. Beyond simple hypocrisy, the Republicans’ impeachment threat demonstrates their gathering disrespect for democracy. If they can’t gain control of government fairly, they’ll simply undermine it. It is the clearest warning yet that voters must deliver a firm rejection of the politics of division that Mr. Trump represents.
7 Reasons Why Trump Would Hate Being President
He couldn’t fire people every day—and he’d actually have to master the details. Boring!
Donald Trump will be in for the shock of his life when he realizes starting January 20, 2017 just how much harder – and different – running a government is from running a private business. The Republican nominee will hate the presidency, so much so that even if he won the White House, he would be sorely tempted to quit before his term even ends.
1. You’re (never) fired.
.. he’ll need the help of thousands of civil servants to do the work–people protected by federal employee union rules and regulations that are not accountable to any administration.
.. Equally difficult will be hiring people.
2. Congress will drive him insane.
3. He’ll be investigated to death.
4. The judges will relentlessly question his executive orders.
5. The boredom factor.
There’s no such thing as a selective presidency that only focuses on the fun parts of “making America great again.” Trump would be required to deal with thousands of things that he simply doesn’t care about.
.. The media, which Trump unabashedly despises, will be working down the hall in the White House press room and traveling with him everywhere he goes and questioning everything he does. For four straight years and without relief, they will be relentless in their examination. Internal leaks, tell-all books, off the record sourcing, the 24-hour Internet cycle – all of these will poke holes in a Trump administration from the beginning. Trump can’t tweet his way around the myriad things the press will dig into, including his family’s activities, his marriage, and his children’s private lives.
.. Deep down, he probably knows he doesn’t want that. For the first time in his life, Donald Trump might truly be hoping to lose.
Can the GOP Civilize Trump the Barbarian?
The thing about barbarian conquerors, though, is that they need the help of the conquered to run their empires. And this gives the conquered people power – the power to keep things the way they are.
.. Trump’s efforts look like more amateurish and exaggerated versions of precisely the sorts of “plans” that GOP candidates have been proposing for the past several cycles. They involve enormous tax cuts for the top income brackets and corporations, and ripping up ObamaCare to replace it with nothing.
.. Once he was emperor, Kublai Khan famously decreed the building of a stately pleasure dome at Xanadu — just the sort of thing one can imagine Donald Trump doing. But to govern China, he relied on Han Chinese advisors, and ran his empire according to traditional Chinese models. Trump the barbarian may wind up being “civilized” by his conquest in much the same manner.
Trump’s first 100 Days
He talked of turning the Oval Office into a high-powered board room, empowering military leaders over foreign affairs specialists in national security debates, and continuing to speak harshly about adversaries.
.. Mr. Trump said he would try to unite Republicans and disaffected Democrats and independents over the next six months before the November election, and then work in office to show Americans that his chief interest was fighting for their needs. He argued that the fact that he would not have to rely on wealthy donors to finance his campaign
.. Several friends and allies of Mr. Trump said that “negotiating” was the word he used the most to encapsulate his first 100 days in office. He wants to put strong-willed people — business executives and generals are mentioned most often — in charge of cabinet agencies and throughout his senior staff, and direct them to negotiate deals and plans with congressional leaders and state officials, as well as insurance companies and others in the private sector.
.. “Trump is predicting he’ll be able to do all these things, but his workload will be pretty enormous and his power would be so limited by precedent, by the bureaucracy, by the Constitution,” said Robert Dallek, a presidential historian. “Even in trade and immigration, where Trump says he will make revolutionary changes, Congress has a say on those things. A lot of people have a say. The president is not king.”
.. He would also call the heads of companies like Pfizer, the Carrier Corporation, Ford and Nabisco and warn them that their products face 35 percent tariffs because they are moving jobs out of the country. Democrats and some Republicans have warned that financial markets would react poorly and that Mr. Trump’s protectionist stances might plunge the country into recession, but he insisted that trade is “killing the country” and “the markets would be fine.”
.. “The Oval Office would be an amazing place to negotiate. It would command immediate respect from the other side, immediate understanding about the nation’s priorities.”
.. “Of course, if he wins he’ll have some level of strength and momentum akin to a mandate. That would help.”
.. One of his closest advisers, his daughter Ivanka, would probably stay with his company, but he said he would seek counsel from her and her husband, the businessman Jared Kushner, and noted that family members had served in administrations before.
.. “I think about a U.N. ambassador, about a secretary of defense and secretary of treasury, but I think more about winning first,” Mr. Trump said. “Otherwise I’m wasting time. I want people in those jobs who care about winning.
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Does Trump understand the President does not own the United States?
America is a country, not a company. And it’s owners are the citizens.
All of the citizens, even minorities and the poor.
The President works for us. Along with Congress. And is bound by the Constitution.
He is an employee. Not king. Not dictator.
And he does not get to wave his hand and “make it so”.
Perhaps Trump should actually read the Constitution and remember it’s not a contract that he can renegotiate... If we must read about Trump everyday, isn’t about time his repellent personal biography from the 80s and 90s got some new ink?
Voters who weren’t adults when ‘The Donald’ was building his fame as tabloid-fodder, and talk radio fixture deserve a recap of the way he lived his far from private, private life, so they can decide if he has the character to be president.
How is Trump’s dumping of first wife Ivana Trump ‘for getting old,’ (as related in her book) while squiring a younger, pregnant mistress around town not seen as relevant to his ongoing misogyny?
Hillary’s political opponents (and even a few Times columnists) never tire of finding ways to tie Bill Clinton’s long-ago infidelities around Hillary’s neck like the proverbial albatross. But Trump parades his third wife on the stage, as if his sordid history with the first two never happened.