Bad news: Trump is not becoming any more presidential

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Less than two weeks into the reality that Donald Trump will be our next president, the situation feels more ominous than on election night.

“At the right time, I will be so presidential you will be so bored,” Trump assured us back in April, when the notion seemed fanciful. “I know when to be presidential.”

Does he? On three dimensions — temperament, competence and ideology — Trump’s conduct since the election has offered more basis for worry than for relief.

That Trump’s temperament is a problem is underscored by exit polls showing that 63 percent of voters do not think he has the temperament to be president — including 26 percent of Trump voters.

In the immediate aftermath of the election, it was possible to argue the temperament case either way. There was Presidential Trump, proclaiming that he would be “president for all Americans.” He dropped the talk about locking up “Crooked Hillary” in favor of praising her service to the country.

And then, increasingly, there was Tweeting Trump, starting with an assault on “professional protesters, incited by the media,” and continuing with a series of attacks on the “failing” New York Times, “upset that they looked like fools in their coverage of me.” Pick your adjective: thin-skinned, childish, unpresidential.

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[onecent]

1. He's a perfect idiot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[wordpix]

2. SNL/Alec Baldwin were perfect on this last night

you can get the link on the net free

[MiniMe]

7. Here you go

[n2doc]

3. I guess I am seeing this as a good thing

If he gets mired down in scandals, infighting, and petty crap, he is less likely to actually accomplish the things he wants to do.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

4. With every branch of government behind him, it doesn't matter. Pence will just

step in and will seem sane by comparison, despite the fact that he'll enact the same policies.

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. He is an useful idiot to the Repub. power base

as much as he is to Russia.

Pence will be his Cheney.

[UTUSN]

5. Bwah-hah!1 Who expected otherwise?!1 That is, other than the media yakkers who,

every step of the way, kept looking for him to grow, change, moderate - in short, to morph into somebody else that he has neither the capacity or the inclination to be.

[Initech]

8. I posted this on Twitter:

"72 hours for Donald Trump. 3 Tweets about SNL, 1 Tweet about Hamilton, 0 about Adam Yauch Park. #ThisIsNotPresidentialBehavior"

[ancianita]

9. Nope. We've got a businessman and his political PR operatives for the next four years. We have to

stop emoting about this, dreading, hoping he'll change. He won't. But maybe we'll become inured to what he calls "presidential." It will be like watching a slow train wreck kill the collective will of the body politic.

But this country will change. Maybe some of it will be randomly good but I'm thinking most of the "great again" will be for him and Putin.

If there isn't too much suffering -- who will really know when media won't cover the bad news of his domestic agenda -- the Republicans will keep winning, however they have shown they can make that happen.

[world wide wally]

10. Yeah, but Hillary did email

Just ask Comey