What's Trump's "major crisis" while in office? Why, it's THE PRESIDENCY, silly.

[MrScorpio]

Every U.S. President Faces a Major Crisis. What Will Trump's Be?
Ian Bremmer

Oct 16, 2017

Every U.S. President faces a major crisis at some point in their presidency. Although the administration of Donald Trump has already been buffeted by a hurricane season for the record books, and a stubbornly persistent Russia investigation, he's yet to be hit by the kind of geopolitical crisis that will make the world stop and watch what happens next. Here are five candidates for Trump’s big pressure moment:

1. A large-scale cyber attack

Let's say a cyberattack makes public all the proprietary information of a major corporation, roiling markets. Or a shadowy hacking collective brings down the electrical grid of the Pacific Northwest. Chaos ensues; people will look to the White House for guidance and comfort. As Puerto Rico made clear, playing comforter-in-chief is not Trump’s forte. Compounding the issue is that when it comes to cyber warfare, you can’t publicize your military response—the most effective cyber measures are covert. For a showman like Trump, that’s a problem.

The source of the cyberattack matters too, and information in the early hours and days can oftentimes be spotty. When China allegedly hacked into the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and stole the data of 21.5 million government employees in April 2015, it set off months of investigations and counter-measure planning. The FBI made an arrest just last month related to the OPM breach, highlighting just how long and complicated catching cyber perpetrators can be, especially if the suspects reside outside the country. Trump tweets first and asks questions later. A problem in most instances, but downright debilitating when responding to cyberattacks, especially those unprecedented in scale.

More of putting the cart before the horse: http://time.com/4983740/president-trump-russia-north-korea-washington/?xid=homepage

[Dave Starsky]

1. Hasn't this guy already had one major crisis after another?

Seriously. And on almost a daily to weekly basis?

If these are just "minor" crises, I don't even want to speculate what his "major" crisis will be.

[MrScorpio]

2. Makes one wonder what Ian's been drinking lately. nt

[Proud Liberal Dem]

3. +1

Exactly! I'd say that deliberately provoking NK into a potential nuclear war is a pretty "major" crisis. Another smaller but no less significant one is decertifying the Iran deal, which could potentially lead them to abandon the nuclear deal and restart their nuclear weapons program. The destruction and devastation in Puerto Rico and California, not to mention personally attacking the Mayor of a Puerto Rican city to which he has barely responded, is also significant. He's gloating about destroying ACA, which will negatively impact lots of people and he's not making any effort to get Congress to re-authorize CHIP. His Presidency has really, thus far, been nothing but a huge constant flaming dumpster fire.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

4. The President isn't in danger.

He is the danger.


To paraphrase Walter White.