The shabbiest U.S. president ever is an inexpressibly sad specimen

[Moonglow]

This article is by right-wing political commentator George F Will. It reflects the tide turning against Donald Trump.

There is so much smoke coming out of the Trump administration there is either a raging fire or Donald Trump has hired Cheech and Chong to lift the spirits of administration workers.

The worst aspect of the corruption of the GOP is the burgeoning budget deficit and the spiraling government debt which Donald Trump has addressed by stating he won't be here when the day of reckoning comes for the public debt. The GOP doesn't even care about Trump's negligence.

How much dirt can the Trump base bear?

Opinion | The shabbiest U.S. president ever is an inexpressibly sad specimen

The shabbiest U.S. president ever is an inexpressibly sad specimen

By George F. Will
Columnist
January 18 at 5:09 PM

Half or a quarter of the way through this interesting experiment with an incessantly splenetic presidency, much of the nation has become accustomed to daily mortifications. Or has lost its capacity for embarrassment, which is even worse.

If the country’s condition is calibrated simply by economic data — if, that is, the United States is nothing but an economy — then the state of the union is good. Except that after two years of unified government under the party that formerly claimed to care about fiscal facts and rectitude, the nation faces a $1 trillion deficit during brisk growth and full employment. Unless the president has forever banished business cycles — if he has, his modesty would not have prevented him from mentioning it — the next recession will begin with gargantuan deficits, which will be instructive.

The president has kept his promise not to address the unsustainable trajectory of the entitlement state (about the coming unpleasant reckoning, he said: “Yeah, but I won’t be here”), and his party’s congressional caucuses have elevated subservience to him into a political philosophy. The Republican-controlled Senate — the world’s most overrated deliberative body — will not deliberate about, much less pass, legislation the president does not favor. The evident theory is that it would be lèse-majesté for the Senate to express independent judgments.
...

Dislike of him should be tempered by this consideration: He is an almost inexpressibly sad specimen. It must be misery to awaken to another day of being Donald Trump. He seems to have as many friends as his pluperfect self-centeredness allows, and as he has earned in an entirely transactional life. His historical ignorance deprives him of the satisfaction of working in a house where much magnificent history has been made. His childlike ignorance — preserved by a lifetime of single-minded self-promotion — concerning governance and economics guarantees that whenever he must interact with experienced and accomplished people, he is as bewildered as a kindergartener at a seminar on string theory.
Which is why this fountain of self-refuting boasts (“I have a very good brain”) lies so much. He does so less to deceive anyone than to reassure himself. And as balm for his base, which remains oblivious to his likely contempt for them as sheep who can be effortlessly gulled by preposterous fictions. The tungsten strength of his supporters’ loyalty is as impressive as his indifference to expanding their numbers.
Either the electorate, bored with a menu of faintly variant servings of boorishness, or the 22nd Amendment will end this, our shabbiest but not our first shabby presidency. As Mark Twain and fellow novelist William Dean Howells stepped outside together one morning, a downpour began and Howells asked, “Do you think it will stop?” Twain replied, “It always has.”

He's got that damn hippy hair he needs a purse...

 

[Bleipriester]

This article is by right-wing political commentator George F Will. It reflects the tide turning against Donald Trump.

There is so much smoke coming out of the Trump administration there is either a raging fire or Donald Trump has hired Cheech and Chong to lift the spirits of administration workers.

The worst aspect of the corruption of the GOP is the burgeoning budget deficit and the spiraling government debt which Donald Trump has addressed by stating he won't be here when the day of reckoning comes for the public debt. The GOP doesn't even care about Trump's negligence.

How much dirt can the Trump base bear?

Opinion | The shabbiest U.S. president ever is an inexpressibly sad specimen

The shabbiest U.S. president ever is an inexpressibly sad specimen

By George F. Will
Columnist
January 18 at 5:09 PM

Half or a quarter of the way through this interesting experiment with an incessantly splenetic presidency, much of the nation has become accustomed to daily mortifications. Or has lost its capacity for embarrassment, which is even worse.

If the country’s condition is calibrated simply by economic data — if, that is, the United States is nothing but an economy — then the state of the union is good. Except that after two years of unified government under the party that formerly claimed to care about fiscal facts and rectitude, the nation faces a $1 trillion deficit during brisk growth and full employment. Unless the president has forever banished business cycles — if he has, his modesty would not have prevented him from mentioning it — the next recession will begin with gargantuan deficits, which will be instructive.

The president has kept his promise not to address the unsustainable trajectory of the entitlement state (about the coming unpleasant reckoning, he said: “Yeah, but I won’t be here”), and his party’s congressional caucuses have elevated subservience to him into a political philosophy. The Republican-controlled Senate — the world’s most overrated deliberative body — will not deliberate about, much less pass, legislation the president does not favor. The evident theory is that it would be lèse-majesté for the Senate to express independent judgments.
...

Dislike of him should be tempered by this consideration: He is an almost inexpressibly sad specimen. It must be misery to awaken to another day of being Donald Trump. He seems to have as many friends as his pluperfect self-centeredness allows, and as he has earned in an entirely transactional life. His historical ignorance deprives him of the satisfaction of working in a house where much magnificent history has been made. His childlike ignorance — preserved by a lifetime of single-minded self-promotion — concerning governance and economics guarantees that whenever he must interact with experienced and accomplished people, he is as bewildered as a kindergartener at a seminar on string theory.
Which is why this fountain of self-refuting boasts (“I have a very good brain”) lies so much. He does so less to deceive anyone than to reassure himself. And as balm for his base, which remains oblivious to his likely contempt for them as sheep who can be effortlessly gulled by preposterous fictions. The tungsten strength of his supporters’ loyalty is as impressive as his indifference to expanding their numbers.
Either the electorate, bored with a menu of faintly variant servings of boorishness, or the 22nd Amendment will end this, our shabbiest but not our first shabby presidency. As Mark Twain and fellow novelist William Dean Howells stepped outside together one morning, a downpour began and Howells asked, “Do you think it will stop?” Twain replied, “It always has.”

So what has changed?

 

[Stormy Daniels]

What strikes me from the article is this: “Mr. Conservative” Will I do not recall ever waging such invective on any liberal dignitary or extreme liberal opponent so savagely as has on both Donald Trump’s policies and Donald Trump’s character.

You cannot be serious.

 

[Dale Smith]

Hillary's husband was caught with his pants down in the Oval Office playing hide the cigar with an intern barely older than his daughter and the crazy angry left thinks President Trump is "shabby"? WTF?

Can a Pussy Grabber ever really be shabby?

You called?

Sincerely, Bill "drop trou" Clinton

 

[jehanne1431]

What strikes me from the article is this: “Mr. Conservative” Will I do not recall ever waging such invective on any liberal dignitary or extreme liberal opponent so savagely as has on both Donald Trump’s policies and Donald Trump’s character.

You cannot be serious.

All of a sudden all of Trump's initiatives alarm our life-long conservative George Will. That is a betrayal of his alleged long held ideals. I did not read any praise given in that article? I have no respect for this tactics. Yes, I believe this is worse than any of his attacks against obama, hillary, what have you. What difference does it make anyway? It is obvious he has turned this personal and it's about vengeance. low class (imo)

 

[Dale Smith]

George Will's opinion should matter to me because of???????

 

[Daryl Hunt]

Hillary's husband was caught with his pants down in the Oval Office playing hide the cigar with an intern barely older than his daughter and the crazy angry left thinks President Trump is "shabby"? WTF?

he's rated a F- on most of what he has done in his second year. The best rating you can give him on his first year would be a C. He was headed to be at least listed as a competent President but that went out the window now. Don't you think it's time to start taking a good hard look at him?

 

[LordBrownTrout]

Lol, hes about as right wing as david gergen.

 

[odanny]

As long as he selects conservative judges, Republicans don’t care what he does

Curiously, I wonder what expectations Trump loyalists have of these conservative S.C. justices. What exactly are you expecting? Keeping marijuana illegal? Making homosexual marriage illegal? Making abortion illegal? Overruling environmental protection laws and allowing the country, and planet, to be trashed?

What did I leave out?

 

[Denizen]

The shabbiest U.S. president ever is an inexpressibly sad specimen

.
Some things George mentioned have merit, many others I dismiss with justifiable prejudice. (imo)
But I’m uninspired to rehash the differences here and now.

What strikes me from the article is this: “Mr. Conservative” Will I do not recall ever waging such invective on any liberal dignitary or extreme liberal opponent so savagely as has on both Donald Trump’s policies and Donald Trump’s character. Which says to me “this is personal.” George Will’s ego has been bruised in the recent past and as a result he has chosen to abandon integrity and fairness for the sake of revenge. Sad.

Donald Trump is the perpetrator who abandoned, tromped-on, and dumpstered "integrity and fairness". Why should Trump and Trumpeters demand something from others that they are not prepared to give?

 

[Denizen]

George Will's opinion should matter to me because of???????

... you want to improve yourself.

 

[sealybobo]

This article is by right-wing political commentator George F Will. It reflects the tide turning against Donald Trump.

There is so much smoke coming out of the Trump administration there is either a raging fire or Donald Trump has hired Cheech and Chong to lift the spirits of administration workers.

The worst aspect of the corruption of the GOP is the burgeoning budget deficit and the spiraling government debt which Donald Trump has addressed by stating he won't be here when the day of reckoning comes for the public debt. The GOP doesn't even care about Trump's negligence.

How much dirt can the Trump base bear?

Opinion | The shabbiest U.S. president ever is an inexpressibly sad specimen

The shabbiest U.S. president ever is an inexpressibly sad specimen

By George F. Will
Columnist
January 18 at 5:09 PM

Half or a quarter of the way through this interesting experiment with an incessantly splenetic presidency, much of the nation has become accustomed to daily mortifications. Or has lost its capacity for embarrassment, which is even worse.

If the country’s condition is calibrated simply by economic data — if, that is, the United States is nothing but an economy — then the state of the union is good. Except that after two years of unified government under the party that formerly claimed to care about fiscal facts and rectitude, the nation faces a $1 trillion deficit during brisk growth and full employment. Unless the president has forever banished business cycles — if he has, his modesty would not have prevented him from mentioning it — the next recession will begin with gargantuan deficits, which will be instructive.

The president has kept his promise not to address the unsustainable trajectory of the entitlement state (about the coming unpleasant reckoning, he said: “Yeah, but I won’t be here”), and his party’s congressional caucuses have elevated subservience to him into a political philosophy. The Republican-controlled Senate — the world’s most overrated deliberative body — will not deliberate about, much less pass, legislation the president does not favor. The evident theory is that it would be lèse-majesté for the Senate to express independent judgments.
...

Dislike of him should be tempered by this consideration: He is an almost inexpressibly sad specimen. It must be misery to awaken to another day of being Donald Trump. He seems to have as many friends as his pluperfect self-centeredness allows, and as he has earned in an entirely transactional life. His historical ignorance deprives him of the satisfaction of working in a house where much magnificent history has been made. His childlike ignorance — preserved by a lifetime of single-minded self-promotion — concerning governance and economics guarantees that whenever he must interact with experienced and accomplished people, he is as bewildered as a kindergartener at a seminar on string theory.
Which is why this fountain of self-refuting boasts (“I have a very good brain”) lies so much. He does so less to deceive anyone than to reassure himself. And as balm for his base, which remains oblivious to his likely contempt for them as sheep who can be effortlessly gulled by preposterous fictions. The tungsten strength of his supporters’ loyalty is as impressive as his indifference to expanding their numbers.
Either the electorate, bored with a menu of faintly variant servings of boorishness, or the 22nd Amendment will end this, our shabbiest but not our first shabby presidency. As Mark Twain and fellow novelist William Dean Howells stepped outside together one morning, a downpour began and Howells asked, “Do you think it will stop?” Twain replied, “It always has.”

Either the conspiracy theorists are right or they are wrong. Is there a deep state? Notice one day Lindsey graham is a darling the next he’s a deep state rino? Which is it? Sounds like bs to me

 

[toobfreak]

This article is by right-wing political commentator George F Will. It reflects the tide turning against Donald Trump.

Thanks for reminding me that Will is now a long-dead, irrelevant, snobbish writer blinded by his Never-Trumper hatred and bile. His protectionism for the stale, musty Old Guard Republicans he so hated to see take a fall is second only to the shattering cries of the Left as they watched Hillary bomb in defeat. He should just pack it up and move across the hall with the Democrats and make it official. I've no use for anything this turd thinks.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

You just know that after Mueller deep sixed the Buzzfeed hoax, dimwitocrats were going to dig up something to use as a dildo.

 

[jehanne1431]

The shabbiest U.S. president ever is an inexpressibly sad specimen

.
Some things George mentioned have merit, many others I dismiss with justifiable prejudice. (imo)
But I’m uninspired to rehash the differences here and now.

What strikes me from the article is this: “Mr. Conservative” Will I do not recall ever waging such invective on any liberal dignitary or extreme liberal opponent so savagely as has on both Donald Trump’s policies and Donald Trump’s character. Which says to me “this is personal.” George Will’s ego has been bruised in the recent past and as a result he has chosen to abandon integrity and fairness for the sake of revenge. Sad.

Donald Trump is the perpetrator who abandoned, tromped-on, and dumpstered "integrity and fairness". Why should Trump and Trumpeters demand something from others that they are not prepared to give?

.
You people are full of hyperbole, you get excited over a note trump passed in school.
What George Will is doing by denigrating Trump was more for his own benefit (ego), but bad for the country. (imo)

 

[dblack]

This article is by right-wing political commentator George F Will. It reflects the tide turning against Donald Trump.

While I certainly hope you're right about the tide turning, this article doesn't reflect anything new. Will hates Trump and has been quite vocal about it all along.

 

[Dale Smith]

George Will's opinion should matter to me because of???????

... you want to improve yourself.

 

[odanny]

George Will is brilliant, and there are many things I disagree with this man about (his effusive praise of St. Reagan, his denial of climate change, etc.) but I know I have to read him because I'm going to learn something, and I certainly did here.

 

[Denizen]

The shabbiest U.S. president ever is an inexpressibly sad specimen

.
Some things George mentioned have merit, many others I dismiss with justifiable prejudice. (imo)
But I’m uninspired to rehash the differences here and now.

What strikes me from the article is this: “Mr. Conservative” Will I do not recall ever waging such invective on any liberal dignitary or extreme liberal opponent so savagely as has on both Donald Trump’s policies and Donald Trump’s character. Which says to me “this is personal.” George Will’s ego has been bruised in the recent past and as a result he has chosen to abandon integrity and fairness for the sake of revenge. Sad.

Donald Trump is the perpetrator who abandoned, tromped-on, and dumpstered "integrity and fairness". Why should Trump and Trumpeters demand something from others that they are not prepared to give?

.
You people are full of hyperbole, you get excited over a note trump passed in school.
What George Will is doing by denigrating Trump was more for his own benefit (ego), but bad for the country. (imo)

Donald Trump is a cancer in Uncle Sam.

 

[Rustic]

This article is by right-wing political commentator George F Will. It reflects the tide turning against Donald Trump.

There is so much smoke coming out of the Trump administration there is either a raging fire or Donald Trump has hired Cheech and Chong to lift the spirits of administration workers.

The worst aspect of the corruption of the GOP is the burgeoning budget deficit and the spiraling government debt which Donald Trump has addressed by stating he won't be here when the day of reckoning comes for the public debt. The GOP doesn't even care about Trump's negligence.

How much dirt can the Trump base bear?

Opinion | The shabbiest U.S. president ever is an inexpressibly sad specimen

The shabbiest U.S. president ever is an inexpressibly sad specimen

By George F. Will
Columnist
January 18 at 5:09 PM

Half or a quarter of the way through this interesting experiment with an incessantly splenetic presidency, much of the nation has become accustomed to daily mortifications. Or has lost its capacity for embarrassment, which is even worse.

If the country’s condition is calibrated simply by economic data — if, that is, the United States is nothing but an economy — then the state of the union is good. Except that after two years of unified government under the party that formerly claimed to care about fiscal facts and rectitude, the nation faces a $1 trillion deficit during brisk growth and full employment. Unless the president has forever banished business cycles — if he has, his modesty would not have prevented him from mentioning it — the next recession will begin with gargantuan deficits, which will be instructive.

The president has kept his promise not to address the unsustainable trajectory of the entitlement state (about the coming unpleasant reckoning, he said: “Yeah, but I won’t be here”), and his party’s congressional caucuses have elevated subservience to him into a political philosophy. The Republican-controlled Senate — the world’s most overrated deliberative body — will not deliberate about, much less pass, legislation the president does not favor. The evident theory is that it would be lèse-majesté for the Senate to express independent judgments.
...

Dislike of him should be tempered by this consideration: He is an almost inexpressibly sad specimen. It must be misery to awaken to another day of being Donald Trump. He seems to have as many friends as his pluperfect self-centeredness allows, and as he has earned in an entirely transactional life. His historical ignorance deprives him of the satisfaction of working in a house where much magnificent history has been made. His childlike ignorance — preserved by a lifetime of single-minded self-promotion — concerning governance and economics guarantees that whenever he must interact with experienced and accomplished people, he is as bewildered as a kindergartener at a seminar on string theory.
Which is why this fountain of self-refuting boasts (“I have a very good brain”) lies so much. He does so less to deceive anyone than to reassure himself. And as balm for his base, which remains oblivious to his likely contempt for them as sheep who can be effortlessly gulled by preposterous fictions. The tungsten strength of his supporters’ loyalty is as impressive as his indifference to expanding their numbers.
Either the electorate, bored with a menu of faintly variant servings of boorishness, or the 22nd Amendment will end this, our shabbiest but not our first shabby presidency. As Mark Twain and fellow novelist William Dean Howells stepped outside together one morning, a downpour began and Howells asked, “Do you think it will stop?” Twain replied, “It always has.”