Does Trump know he's president? - By Eugene Robinson
The Trump administration so far has been smoke and mirrors, sound and fury, self-proclaimed victimhood and angry tweets. Where is the substance? Where is the competence? And where — increasingly — is the public support?
President Trump’s approval rating of 42 percent is the lowest that Gallup has ever measured for a president this early in his term. It should be no surprise that Trump isn’t having a hearts-and-flowers honeymoon, given that his inauguration was followed a day later by the biggest mass protest in the nation’s history. But it usually takes more than a few weeks for the relationship between POTUS and populace to become so curdled.
It is true that most of those who voted for Trump are sticking with him. But they, you will recall, were in the minority — try as he might, Trump will never erase the fact that he lost the popular vote. And he has done essentially nothing to bring skeptics over to his side.
Instead, he has worried his political allies and galvanized his opponents. To me, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) sound a bit uncertain and defensive these days. By contrast, the House and Senate minority leaders, Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), seem full of energy and purpose. It’s awfully hard to tell from body language who won the election.
Why wouldn’t the Republican leadership be nervous, given the performance of the Trump White House?
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