The Collision of a flight with a military helicopter over the Potomac is the first real big test for the Trump administration.
This is something that has to be handled wisely, Trump needs to be presidential while at the same time highlighting the importance of competence vs DEI when dealing with important life and death jobs.
Of course the press spin has helped him as it again seems to be titled toward amplifying the loudest and most hysterical “Blame Trump” declarations.
I suspect Trump’s instincts will prove wiser than the press’ but time will tell if I’m right or not.
While Trump executive actions have been swift and decisive and dizzying there is one thing that needs to be remembered.
All of these actions that Donald Trump has taken and he has taken many rather popular acts are completely reversible because they are by executive order.
If he wants them to stand beyond his presidency Trump needs to get these thing codified into law and the fact that the GOP house has not taken any action along those lines yet disturbs me.
Of course they might be waiting for an opportune time or might be waiting for a spending bill that can’t be filibustered to attach his EO’s to, but whatever the tact they need to keep this in mind otherwise the next Democrat president can and likely will put all of this nonsense that Trump has removed back in play with a single signature.
One of the things that never ceases to amaze me concerning the media and Donald Trump is their complete inability to learn from their mistakes.
President Trump after a term in office and four years to think about how to achieve his goals has pivoted in terms of tactics to adapt them to current conditions and has used this to achieve the highest approval ratings he has ever scored.
Meanwhile the media continues to try to spin and play “gotcha” in an age where the net allows us to debunk them to a public that doesn’t trust them.
Perhaps never having been taught how to think but only how to react they may not know how to deal with the onslaught of action that this administration has become and serving a niche market means they don’t dare go out of the zone.
They’ll have to wait for a mistake, one will eventually come but will they be ready when it does?
I’ve been surprised by the lack of focus on Abortion in the hearings for RFK JR.
The reality is that it’s going to take republican votes to sink any Trump nomination and the place where Kennedy should have been most vulnerable was abortion being a lifelong Democrat. Of course his description of abortion as a tragedy rather than something to be celebrated shows his age.
That they didn’t press it more suggests it’s all about show and fundraising from true believers than anything else.
Of course the unwillingness to celebrate killing kids rather than simply tolerating it at alone might be enough to cost him Collins and Murkowski. But will it cost him more?
As Trump’s press secretary welcomes new media to the press conferences in DC allow me to take a slight bow.
While I was unable to secure Trump as an interview in the closing days of the blog as a business I can take a bow for another matter.
I’m welcome to allow someone to correct me but unless I’m very much mistaken the very first question asked of Donald Trump either on the campaign trail or as President by a member of the new media in an official setting was asked by me in Derry NH in September of 2015
Not a bad legacy
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