- Jun 6, 2007
- 852
- 483
- 910
President-elect Donald Trump is setting himself up for a lot of significant failure for his Presidential administration by not surrounding himself with a lot of centrists in his White House staff. I think a lot of the problem stems from a common problem President-elects have which is they have too rosy a picture about the behavior of Congress, the media and public opposition. President-elect Trump believes during his tenure that all Americans are going to love one another; Not! President-elect Trump needs to face reality or he will be run over by reality. The reality is that the majority of the Democrat party elected members and rank and file are strongly opposed to him they view him as the enemy and a significant number of Republicans on the far right view him the same way. If President-elect Trump is to succeed it is because he chooses centrist policies that wide swaths of both parties perceive as reasonable, responsible and accept.
Candidate Donald Trump campaigned as the outsider as the non-establishment guy and he won with that representation and most importantly he won because of that strategy. Sorry, Mr. Trump there is no going back you're in the major leagues now you've chosen your path now you got to walk it there is no joining the Republican caucus in Congress and getting an easy ride.You already got it partly right because you realize that it is your duty to give voice to the forgotten men and women of America that in many cases violated their common practice of not voting or crossed party lines to vote for you and give you your victory! But you seem to be a little murky on the second part which is to fulfill that duty you cannot be an ideologue you must respond to these people's needs and legitimate hopes and evaluate every major issue that crosses your path on its merits and do what is economically right by these people.
President-elect Trump in order to succeed as President you're going to have to assemble you're own team of pragmatist centrists to help identify and push such policies. You had such a team for your campaign Rudy Giuliani, KellyAnne Conway and Newt Gingrich why you didn't roll them over to your White House team is a misstep if you ask me. Your cabinet selections have been far-right your chief-of-staff selection is far right and you want to bring about big positive change in the country it just doesn't add up!
Observations on President-elect Trump thus far. It is highly commendable your work on Carrier and to fight off-shoring but you have to be a centrists about this you don't want to make the business community and their allies in Congress blood shot eye angry toward you over this matter. Tailor your executive order that the thirty percent tariff will only apply to products where the off shoring resulted in the loss of fifty jobs at a U.S. plant and it will only last for five years from the time the off-shoring commences for that product and the overall executive order is too sunset in ten years thus making it clear the overall purpose of the EO is to stem the off-shoring problem until the government makes the American economy highly attractive for manufacturing and production so that these jobs don't need extraordinary protective measures; similarly have one of your congressional allies in the House and Senate submit the same exact bill in Congress and pressure Messrs. Ryan and McConnell to bring those bills up for a vote it doesn't matter if it passes because what you're after is defense of your actions here and certainly the bills will get many votes and you can waive that around as a flag that you're doing the right thing.
I don't understand President-elect Trump's reluctance to accept evidence that will prove the case that Russia interfered in the U.S. elections specifically that Russia was culpable in the hacking of the emails from the DNC and John Podesta the chairman of the Presidential campaign for the Democrat nominee and the release of these emails. It undermines his credibility weaving and dodging on this issue. He needs to remember that accepting the facts, acknowledging that the interference was wrong and should never happen again means that he agrees that the interference changed the outcome of this years Presidential election. He can always maintain the position that the behind the scenes engineering these emails revealed the public already knows about in the broad sense that Americans can see clearly that Washington works for the wealthy, big business and special interests but not for ordinary people and needs to change.
President-elect Trump in his recent interview with Fox's Chris Wallace left open the door for formal roles in his administration for his daughter, Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner. Humongous mistake the media and President-elect Trump's enemies will criticize and complain over such a move like sharks at a shark feast! Wisest decision President elect Trump could make in regard to his family and the Presidency is not involve any of them officially at all don't open any door for them to incur harm!
Candidate Donald Trump campaigned as the outsider as the non-establishment guy and he won with that representation and most importantly he won because of that strategy. Sorry, Mr. Trump there is no going back you're in the major leagues now you've chosen your path now you got to walk it there is no joining the Republican caucus in Congress and getting an easy ride.You already got it partly right because you realize that it is your duty to give voice to the forgotten men and women of America that in many cases violated their common practice of not voting or crossed party lines to vote for you and give you your victory! But you seem to be a little murky on the second part which is to fulfill that duty you cannot be an ideologue you must respond to these people's needs and legitimate hopes and evaluate every major issue that crosses your path on its merits and do what is economically right by these people.
President-elect Trump in order to succeed as President you're going to have to assemble you're own team of pragmatist centrists to help identify and push such policies. You had such a team for your campaign Rudy Giuliani, KellyAnne Conway and Newt Gingrich why you didn't roll them over to your White House team is a misstep if you ask me. Your cabinet selections have been far-right your chief-of-staff selection is far right and you want to bring about big positive change in the country it just doesn't add up!
Observations on President-elect Trump thus far. It is highly commendable your work on Carrier and to fight off-shoring but you have to be a centrists about this you don't want to make the business community and their allies in Congress blood shot eye angry toward you over this matter. Tailor your executive order that the thirty percent tariff will only apply to products where the off shoring resulted in the loss of fifty jobs at a U.S. plant and it will only last for five years from the time the off-shoring commences for that product and the overall executive order is too sunset in ten years thus making it clear the overall purpose of the EO is to stem the off-shoring problem until the government makes the American economy highly attractive for manufacturing and production so that these jobs don't need extraordinary protective measures; similarly have one of your congressional allies in the House and Senate submit the same exact bill in Congress and pressure Messrs. Ryan and McConnell to bring those bills up for a vote it doesn't matter if it passes because what you're after is defense of your actions here and certainly the bills will get many votes and you can waive that around as a flag that you're doing the right thing.
I don't understand President-elect Trump's reluctance to accept evidence that will prove the case that Russia interfered in the U.S. elections specifically that Russia was culpable in the hacking of the emails from the DNC and John Podesta the chairman of the Presidential campaign for the Democrat nominee and the release of these emails. It undermines his credibility weaving and dodging on this issue. He needs to remember that accepting the facts, acknowledging that the interference was wrong and should never happen again means that he agrees that the interference changed the outcome of this years Presidential election. He can always maintain the position that the behind the scenes engineering these emails revealed the public already knows about in the broad sense that Americans can see clearly that Washington works for the wealthy, big business and special interests but not for ordinary people and needs to change.
President-elect Trump in his recent interview with Fox's Chris Wallace left open the door for formal roles in his administration for his daughter, Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner. Humongous mistake the media and President-elect Trump's enemies will criticize and complain over such a move like sharks at a shark feast! Wisest decision President elect Trump could make in regard to his family and the Presidency is not involve any of them officially at all don't open any door for them to incur harm!
