Trump seems to have little ability to work with Congress, the Senate, or even his own selected cabinet. What's your opinion?
My opinion is that I didn't expect much different when I was considering whether or not to vote for him back during the campaign season. :shrug:
I knew he was a Republican in name only, and was of the opinion that he threw his name into the hat as that Party's candidate because he could; whereas the Democratic Party organization would never have given him the opportunity.
That he never actually expected to be elected. More likely than not, IMO it was just a way to get his name in the news and keep him relevant as someone of political importance and influence...probably to help in future business negotiations with foreign governments in the growing global economy.
That's why he was so unconventional in his campaign style, avoiding expensive commercial campaigning for the much cheaper "train-stop" speechifying at rallies. It's also why he felt free to be more caustic and populist in his speeches. He expected to lose, but wanted to do so after showing he had some political pull and could get a sizeable vote. All the better to influence politicians in the US and overseas when seeking business ventures.
In short, typical Trump tactics in business as usual.
I believe it was almost as much of a surprise to him, albeit a pleasant one when he learned he won, as it was to everyone else.
Now he is President. Yet he never had much real support from the Republican leadership in and out of Congress. Basically only from the old Tea Party insurgents who were elected to combat "liberal" policies.
So he had no plan to set up a Cabinet, much less a fully staffed government. He had no plans to enact any real policy, it was all just a publicity stunt.
But just as he never expected to get elected, once elected he never expected to face such unrelenting hatred and opposition from all those elements who were disappointed by his election.
He also expected those Republican politicians who had been promising to take action once they controlled the government to actually HAVE a plan of action, only to find out they were just as caught off guard as he was.
People compare him to a Hitler, when I've always thought of him as more of a Mussolini, pre-Nazi Germany. A person with good intentions, but used to being a boss and not having to bend to compromises.
So I am not surprised that he isn't working well with either Congress, or those people he had to select to serve as his Cabinet. Neither he nor those he has to work with ever expected his election.
IMO he's simply doing his best to muddle through, and I never expected anything else. :coffeepap: