We KNEW it would…
This is just the beginning….
We will be seeing the Trump reality from those who had to dance in it
Not just the guy who made it up and is still seeking to bend that reality to fit his ego….
The public is in for a ride about a inept four years of government….
It is always the case that presidents want to shape their legacies. No president wants to be Warren G. Harding, pilloried by history when he’s remembered at all. Much better to be a Franklin D. Roosevelt or Ronald Reagan, legacies sitting on real foundations that have been carefully tended over time. One has to assume that for Trump, always so keenly attuned to public perceptions of him, the drive to be remembered in a specific light is even stronger.
Yet Trump is perhaps uniquely poorly positioned to frame his own legacy.
Most modern presidents, even controversial ones like George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, have at least enough institutional legitimacy to be seen as reliable interlocutors about their own tenures. One can envision either of them or Barack Obama sitting down alongside a panel of historians at an event hosted by a prominent university, discussing presidential decision-making and its ramifications in good faith. It’s quite difficult to imagine Trump doing the same thing, as difficult as it is to imagine his sitting down with someone like NBC News’s Lester Holt and offering his honest assessment of his own missteps…
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There’s another risk for any effort to shape Trump’s legacy that the CNN interviews with the health officials makes obvious. We’re only about two months past the end of his term in office, and efforts to understand what happened within his administration are still just beginning. Last week, The Washington Post reported that at least nine oversight probes had been hindered during Trump’s time in office, some of which will be completed or released in coming months. The ability of Trump loyalists to keep sketchy activity or faulty decisions out of view largely collapsed on Jan. 20 and the Biden administration will probably have little reason to be generous in keeping them hidden.
Trump’s legacy is already rocky, to put it mildly — and we don’t yet have a full picture of his presidency…..
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The problem for Trump is that his family — even his extended family in conservative media — will probably not be who is etching his presidency in the history books….
James,
You know what’s sad…it probably won’t matter too much because the people who voted for him still won’t feel ashamed or learn from their mistakes…I heard those same guys at my job talking, people may not have liked Trump, but they liked his policies…delusional fucks…because I am like what policies did he enact in four years?…tax cuts and republican justices?…I don’t see any other policy he made…But gut the government…
I like tax cuts and Republican Justices and yet I voted for Biden, so where is my “See the Light” medal?
You get a check CG?
Manical?
Activists Plotted to Discredit Trump ‘Enemies’
“A network of conservative activists, aided by a British former spy, mounted a campaign during the Trump administration to discredit perceived enemies of President Trump inside the government,” the New York Times reports.
“The campaign included a planned sting operation against Mr. Trump’s national security adviser at the time, H.R. McMaster, and secret surveillance operations against FBI employees, aimed at exposing anti-Trump sentiment in the bureau’s ranks.”
“Female undercover operatives arranged dates with the FBI employees with the aim of secretly recording them making disparaging comments about Mr. Trump.”
In fact that same rational was going on for the last years of the Trump admin….
People would say the guys fucking nuts!
But I ‘like’ how he speaks for the ‘white’ minority that feels Americans is losing them…
His policy was just THAT …..’screw’ the democracy that would give them ‘lefties and people of color, and even poor while people a chance, a voice, a good paying job’…..