Well, it seems like the last Republican to infest the White House, he has little regard for the Constitution.
In an interview with Fox News to mark the 100-day mark, he declared himself “disappointed” with congressional Republicans, despite his many “great relationships” with them.The Constitution is fine. It's only a bad thing for wannabee dictators. Like Dolt-45.
He blamed the constitutional checks and balances built in to US governance. “It’s a very rough system,” he said. “It’s an archaic system … It’s really a bad thing for the country.”
Which is possibly why he's invited another Constitution-shredding president in for a visit.
Update: The Fox News transcript makes it pretty clear that Trump is enraged at the idea that he has to compromise on anything:
We don't have a lot of closers in politics and I understand why. It's a very rough system, it's an archaic system. You look at the rules of the Senate, even the rules of the House, bit the rule of the Senate and some of the things you have to go through, it's really a bad thing for the country in my opinion.Trump pretty much seems to think that the legislative process should be trimmed down to Congress passing what he wants, with zero debate or consideration. Which is all pretty funny, in a way, for the conservative ideal was a low-IQ president who would sign whatever Congress gave him.
There are archaic rules and maybe at some point, we're going to have to take those rules on because for the good of the nation things are going to have to be different. You can't go through a process like this. It's not fair, it forces you to make bad decisions. I mean, if you're forced into doing things that you would normally not do except for these archaic rules, so -
It's clear, or should be, that to Trump, being fair to him is the same as sycophantic praise. He has the same concept of fairness as a child who thinks that the umpire was unfair for calling him out on strikes.
Our president is a 70-year old with the emotional development of a tweener boy, at best. He has that amount of ability to see his own screwups ("everyone else is so mean to me") and the same about of impulse control.
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No bias at the Guardian, there. No slant to the writing.
And innit odd that they won't link to the interview they quote from? Y'know, so we get context and not their version of isolated quotes.
1) If you can, provide a well reasoned rebuttal.
2) If you can't provide a counter-argument, point out someone on the other side who did something comparable.
3) If you can't find a suitable comparison, attack the source.
The first on that list is considered to be intelligent discussion. The rest tend a represent an increasingly desperate desire to convince oneself and others that they didn't make a terrible mistake.
Ultimately, of course, when all other alternatives fail, we'll end at 4) pretend you never heard/read it in the first place.
Our current administration hit #2 pretty fast, threw in a little lying ("alternative facts") and is hovering between 3 and 4 most of the time these days.
With maybe a touch of this:
The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which low-ability individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their ability as much higher than it really is. Psychologists David Dunning and Justin Kruger attributed this bias to a metacognitive incapacity, on the part of those with low ability, to recognize their ineptitude and evaluate their competence accurately.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
But Donald, there's no "c" in loser (h/t:Driftglass).
-Doug in Oakland
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