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April 15, 2018 at 8:40 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
Max Boot: It is hard to imagine how Trump can do his job for example, approving military strikes on Syria while drowning in this rising tide of scandal. There is an old tradition, more honored in theory than fact, that issues of national security are kept separate from domestic politics, but Trump is utterly incapable of making any such distinction. For him, everything is political and all politics is personal.
Its hard to imagine that Trump, who in the best of times has the attention span of a hyperactive 8-year-old, can focus on strategy for Syria amid the far more pressing threats that he faces from an ever-expanding criminal investigation. If the United States had a parliamentary government, Congress could pass a motion of no confidence, thus allowing Trump to devote 100?percent of his attention to fighting the multiplying charges against him without the distractions of running the government. Instead, we must hope that the institutions of the U.S. government are strong enough to function more or less on autopilot while Trump is consumed by the wages of his own sins.
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Demsrule86
(68,788 posts)manor321
(3,344 posts)Fritz Walter
(4,292 posts)I'm thinking, "My Dog! Won't somebody throw him an anchor!"
paleotn
(18,012 posts)so I doubt the scandals are putting much of a crimp on his time. Since inauguration, his schedule is peppered with time slots called "executive time"..ie. goof off time, flog the log time, whatever you want to call it. His weekends are wall to wall goof off time. The executive branch has been on autopilot since Obama left.
fierywoman
(7,705 posts)perfect way of putting it.
We are SCREWN!
IluvPitties
(3,181 posts)He's letting his minions run the show and taking credit for it.
SunSeeker
(51,797 posts)That about sums it up.
Nitram
(22,951 posts)He is taking advice from people like Bolton. What could go wrong?