It is no secret that President Trump has
had a turbulent first couple of months on the job. The (deserved) failure of the
American Health Care Act, controversies over Russian meddling in the
presidential election, the travel ban rollout, now a burgeoning fight over tax
reform… All of these were avoidable crises, during the best time for a new
administration to score some big wins. And all were made even worse by the
President being the same impulsive, vindictive, easily-provoked Twitter addict
he’s always been.
During the campaign, we were promised a
presidential Trump, someone who could be “so presidential you’ll be bored.”We
haven’t seen him yet. And while the Twitter outbursts have sometimes been
amusing, they are quickly getting in the way of opportunities for real
conservative reforms. I like fun, WTF-style tweets. They keep the day
interesting. But not from the President of the United States, not multiple
times a day from said President, and certainly not at the expense of real
progress in reforming the federal government.
Spring is a time of growth and optimism.
Maybe Trump can be inspired to start putting more effort and focus into
governing, away from the constant media attention he craves. Maybe someone
close to him can be inspired to stage an intervention and lock him out of
Twitter for a week or two. But whatever the reason, it’s something that needed
to happen yesterday. The sooner, the better.
Campaigning is fun. But the campaign,
and the playtime, is over. If Trump can’t see on his own that it’s time to
ditch the phone and start acting like the leader of the free world, hopefully
someone in the West Wing can wake him up to the fact.
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