It looks like the misplaced love affair with the clown may be
over. His approval rating is at a record low, and he's already
showing himself to be a lame duck. The risk of geopolitical
uncertainty is rising, and the expected boost from tax cuts is
fading. I expect discord within the GOP to increase as they all
look ahead to their own elections next year and start to distance
themselves from his stink, and so Trump's ability to get anything
done other than "executive order" will get worse. He attacked Obama
relentlessly for doing executive orders, but it's different when
it's him doing it I guess.
Repeal and replace, abject failure. Those "historic" tax cuts,
not happening this year, which the market in recent months appears
to have pinned hopes on. Travel ban, can't even pass the courts.
Now even his biggest fans in the alt-right are turning on him for
his rapid 180 on Syria. The Syria situation could easily drag the
US into something much worse, and he seems to have bombed without
strategy (and without asking Congress...) just to score some
feel-good bumps for himself. He said he was so disturbed by the
footage of suffering children but he's not so disturbed that he'll
let any of them into the US, nor did he care after 2013's gas
attacks when he urged Obama not to get involved and not to do
anything without asking Congress (which the Republicans were all
against when it was Obama, but love it now).
He attacked Obama repeatedly for travel while he travels every
weekend and is on pace to rack up more taxpayer costs for travel in
1 year than Obama in 8 years. He attacked Obama for golf, however
at this point Obama hadn't even been on a golf course while Trump
has golfed what 14 or more times already? Unbelievable. Remember
last year he said, "I just wanna stay in the White House and work
my ass off, make great deals, right? Who's gonna leave? I mean,
who's gonna leave?" That would be you, every Friday afternoon, to
play golf all weekend at our expense.