So, how much longer will we have to wait before Trump gets sick of doing a job I’m guessing he never really thought he’d get stuck having to do and quits? In the run up to the election I, like many others no doubt, given the choice between an awful Hillary promising four more years of the awfulness that was Obama, and an utterly unpredictable Trump who could conceivably turn out to be worse, imagined that the best we could hope for was Trump winning and then, after six months or so of his erstwhile pleasant life being made miserable by the demands of the job, he feigns debilitation to some illness and resigns - given Trump’s mercurial, erratic nature, his age, and the fact he has a lot of money to console himself with should he go this route, not an entirely crazy thing to hope for. So, after three weeks of Trumpism, any signs yet that the canary really doesn’t like the coal mine?
Well, of course, way too early for that - and it’s not like he’s been a disaster so far - pretty much a mixed bag of some good and some bad stuff with one huge fuck up - the ‘anti-Muslim’ EO - thrown in. The thing is, up til now it’s all mostly been about simply signing his name to a piece of paper - the hard bits, the grind is still to come. Yeah, you waved your pen and away went the Pacific trade agreement - but in doing so you've created a strategic void that now very much needs to be filled - in other words, the hard part starts now. Bibi’s coming to town - do you have a plan? Iran’s already trying to test you - how far are you willing to go in pushing back? You’ve talked a lot about a new relationship with Putin - what’s your response gonna be when he pulls the rug out from under you as he almost certainly will eventually do? And on and on it goes. Campaigning was easy next to the grind off ‘running’ the most important country in the world, a job which offers few perks other than the awesome power that comes with it, a power that can very easily [and almost surely will] turn into a painful burden. Does Trump, a 70 year old rich guy with no true political convictions, really want to spend the next four years doing this? I dunno.
