I read earlier where, despite Trump's low low low lowest approval rate after one month in office (thanks to cherry piked polls by the media), Trump has an 89% approval rate amongst Republicans after one month, which is higher than Reagan and just as high as Bush.
I also read, in the Washington Post (<snort>), that,
"In the alarming month since he took office, it has become clear, if it were not already, that President Trump is dishonest, unprepared and undisciplined. His presidency poses an enormous risk to the country -- to its safety, standing in the world, and relations with allies, just for a start."
Yeah, well, there's an ass so tight not even a fart can get out. Remember how Clinton took 9 months to finally get settled in and become competent? In the first nine months his (and hers) healthcare extravaganza became a fiasco, there was the divisive “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy and a public outcry over his first attorney general pick, Zoë Baird, who had knowingly hired an undocumented immigrant as a nanny, and, oh, yeah, Waco. What a cook out.
US News wrote in 2010, one year after the inauguration, that,
"The Obama presidency has so far been characterized by a well-intentioned but excessive belief in the power of rhetoric with too little appreciation of reality and loyalty. . . . Strategic decisions go well beyond being smart, which Obama certainly is. They must be based on experience that discerns what works, what doesn’t - and why. This requires experienced staffing, which Obama and his top appointees simply do not seem to have. He is unprepared and incompetent, with the White House being more apt for Amateur Hour than world leadership."
Obama had a revolving door of staff for the first several months of his presidency. Couldn't keep anybody. From The Guardian,
"Political analysts attribute the attrition rate to exhaustion, but Republican opponents blame disarray inside the White House, with an insular team responsible for too many policy failures."
And at Politico website, Alvin Felzenberg wrote,
"These departures are a reflection of Obama’s leadership style. Why he has such a difficult time earning and retaining the loyalties of people outside his circle of intimates is anyone’s guess. I'm guessing incompetence and arrogance, since that seems to be the most evident."
A year and a half into Obama's presidency, Joe Scarborough
reported on MSNBC that, "Democrats in Washington have been horrified by this president’s handling of things for a year and a half now. The top Democrats in the United States Senate have all told me individually, ‘This guy has no idea what he’s doing."
Sound familiar?
With few exceptions, pretty much everything that has been and is being written and said about Trump, was also written and said about Obama, Bush, Clinton and all the rest of them. Every president is a hot mess, incompetent, in constant turmoil, and they don't know what they're doing.
