Readers, this Issue’s Commentary has nothing to do with (my) politics per se…It has more to do with the realities of seeking and holding political Office, especially when one (President Trump) is transitioning from the private to the public sector–where one has to tolerate and cope with a variety of Bureaucratic stressors and delays.
This Commentary springs from reported comments that were attributed to President Donald Trump, just days before he celebrated his 100 days in Office.
The President is being quoted as claiming “that it was easier in his previous life, and that he did not know that it would have been so difficult and complicated”.
–Of course, Media-outlets have been constantly airing Mr.Trump’s claims from the campaign-trail about “how easy it would be for him to deliver on campaign-promises.”
It is easy for me to extend empathy within the context of a comparatively rich businessman, who in his previous life within the private sector, (a).. would have hardly had to tolerate resistance from subordinates; (b)..whose (decision) timings for YES/NO would not have been dependent on the whims and fancies of his staff-members; and (c)..who when he made or handed down a decision would not have been subjected to work stoppages and Nays from the Courts; or civil-disobedience and protests from Trades-unions and Interest-groups.
WASHINGTON
T.V. Talkshow host and moderatorJake Tapper began his show on Sunday, April 30th (one day after Mr.Trump’s first 100 days in Office) like this,”The President’s first 100 days were long on Executive-Orders, but very short on Legislative accomplishments”.
Prior to Mr.Tapper’s declaration, President Trump did admit that he did not realize that “Congress worked so slowly”, and he was further surprised that a Republican House and Senate could not get more done.
** Senators Angus King and Susan Collins of Maine, feel that more is not being accomplished in Congress, because elected Representatives are”busy protecting
themselves.”
Senator Collins noted that the (majority) Republican Congress was deeply split along ideological lines.
Another Talk-show host and Moderator-Chuck Todd voiced that President Trump was learning that while he wanted to have things done in a hurry,”Congress worked at its own pace”.
On the Military/Foreign-policy front, Pentagon CorrespondentHelen Cooper showed that
important interventions that the President had to accommodate and contend with, were the views of his Cabinet and his MilitaryOfficers.
PRIVACY
Of course, President Trump is admitting to the (now) incursions on his privacy and private life, and particularly observations and analyses from the Mediasome of which he often declares as “enemies”
T.V.Talk-Show host, Jake Tapper has opined that because of the Nation’s racial and partisan divides, on most occasions “for some-the President can do nothing wrong; then for others he is doing nothing, or he cannot do anything right.”
I am imagining that a private business-owner normally lives and abides by a fixed agenda, a President of the United States enjoys no such luxury, because there is no way of anticipating the scale of Domestic and Foreign challenges that just turn up unannounced like natural disasters and North Korea.
Former White-House (senior) Staff-Member, Andy Card has pointed out in media-interviews that the biggest challenges that Presidents, their Cabinets, AdvisoryTeams and staff-members had to cope with, is massive interruptions at home like 9-11; and overseas occurrences like coups, electoral changes, and trade negotiations.
As a sole proprietor, the President would have been accustomed to seek consultation, and take advice as he wanted to; but in the final analysis he would make decisions as he thought fit.
Therefore, I could fathom the wake-up call that Mr.Trump got that he could not whip Republican Office-Holders in line to vote for the repeal of Obama-Care on two separate occasions .
Then to add YEAST to the issue, the former Apprentice-Host was not able to say to the dissentingones “you are fired.” Former President Obama very early in Office, appropriately noted” Being President of the United States of America is an extraordinarily powerful position, but One has to realize that there are other powerful people and positions inside and outside of America” IN CONCLUSION, another lesson that President Trump is probably learning, as (now) C.E.O. of this country–words, concepts, hypotheses, phrases and clauses really do matter, and many will come under immediate and continuing parsing, dissection and analyses.
IN OTHER WORDS
There is no fixed agenda, there is natural disasters, North Korea and Russia,
which affect an American Leader.
and then 