Friday, August 17, 2018

Trump impersonators



Very good. I suppose. It's almost funny. Except Trump isn't this stiff. And drawing exclusively from his campaigning style misses the totality of Trump, so, satires only one side of a multifaceted entity. And that shows the source material for both, (for all impressonists, actually) is limited. Painfully limited. And imagined complete. And that does fit with most everyone, whose perspectives are also painfully limited while considered complete. Something you know from your own birthday parties. My birthday parties. My last twenty or so birthday parties in Denver, and regular dinner gatherings, all devolve to Democrat caucuses, as they must. Apparently. 

As fresh stucco must be slapped on our little town church each year, a community project, lest the sparse rain dissolve the  poor thing into the mud. Heaven forfend we invest in sturdier building material. 

Sundance explains. We elected a person successful in the real world and not an inbred politician successful in one thing, getting elected, and with no real sense as to how the outside world works. Trump has changed the framework of accountability and transparency in government by holding two to three full cabinet meetings each month in which cabinet members give updates on the execution of policy priorities. Further, he invites the media in and we see for ourselves what full cabinet meetings look and sound like. 

During these meetings Trump says to cabinet executives, "Well done. Good job." And he would say that to the media too if they did anything well and if they actually did a good job. He gives them their chances to do well and to be good, but they simply cannot accept his offer, the way his cabinet members do.  It has nothing to do with being in agreement. It's about doing a solid good job. And asking about Omarosa's claims in her book, known to be nonsense, a reality show blowout, is treating the administration like the reality show that the media claims it to be, instead of doing their job of reporting on the administration's advancing government policies literally changing the world before our wondering eyes. 

In this manner they do behave as enemies of the public, for example, noticing Trump's numbers with voters of negroid persuasion have doubled, then media immediately doubles down on reporting anything and everything it can to support a narrative of Trump's racism, no matter how  sparse, threadbare, and unreliable the source. Just to have that on the airwaves.
No President in modern history has put that much accountability into the position of each cabinet member. No President has ever coordinated strategic objectives with such a high level of expectation and scrutiny. No President has folded transparency into the cabinet with full media access over White House cabinet meetings. This is a new executive branch standard.
Here is what Trump actually sounds like and there's nothing funny about it, save for the genuine humor. Not anything like the narrow impressions of him. Imagine how empowered these cabinet tops feel as part of cohesive administration led by someone who's capable of moving bureaucratic mountains to get things done. 

If you have time for it, I hope you choose to view this video. I find it fascinating. To an extent it matches our management meetings at the FRB, they were run this same way, except for this being far more consequential.


3 comments:

edutcher said...

Desperation ain't pretty.

If Trump does take between 1/3 and 3/8 of the black and Hispanic votes (we assume these numbers are anywhere close to valid) (even if many are stay-at-homes), the Demos are in big trouble come '20.

Toss in the Millennials and homosexuals in the WalkAway movement and you could see one of the biggest shifts in American political history.

Amartel said...

The only good impression of Trump is done by Trump.
Everyone else is amateur hour in a golden wig.

MamaM said...

ChipA, I read this post to MrM while he was cooking today, and he stopped what he was doing to stand and listen. I hope you can hear the compliment in that.