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" After one month in office, President Donald Trump is still experiencing a steep learning curve, as he discovers that the business of governing is far more complicated than campaigning.
There are strong indications that the president has not yet made the transition away from campaigning into acting presidential. On Feb. 18, he delivered his standard campaign stump speech to a crowd of 9,000 adoring fans in Florida. And the president continues to tweet “policy” pronouncements along with vitriolic attacks at all hours of the day — just like he did during the campaign.
Campaign mode enables a candidate to tear down and attack everything and everyone. Once in office, though, a president must proactively produce thoughtful results — not just blame others by whining that “I inherited a mess.”
As Mario Cuomo once said “You campaign in poetry; you govern in prose.” But for Donald Trump, who is not known as a details guy, the details of governing that are part and parcel of the presidency has been somewhat of a shock to him. Of course, the Trump administration has been a shock to many Americans.
For all of President Trump’s dangerous and unsubstantiated attacks on the “dishonest media” for promoting “fake news,” it’s ironic that he has produced one fake deadline after another for his promise to repeal and replace ObamaCare. "
http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/healthcare/320701-fake-news-what-about-trumps-fake-promises
There are strong indications that the president has not yet made the transition away from campaigning into acting presidential. On Feb. 18, he delivered his standard campaign stump speech to a crowd of 9,000 adoring fans in Florida. And the president continues to tweet “policy” pronouncements along with vitriolic attacks at all hours of the day — just like he did during the campaign.
Campaign mode enables a candidate to tear down and attack everything and everyone. Once in office, though, a president must proactively produce thoughtful results — not just blame others by whining that “I inherited a mess.”
As Mario Cuomo once said “You campaign in poetry; you govern in prose.” But for Donald Trump, who is not known as a details guy, the details of governing that are part and parcel of the presidency has been somewhat of a shock to him. Of course, the Trump administration has been a shock to many Americans.
For all of President Trump’s dangerous and unsubstantiated attacks on the “dishonest media” for promoting “fake news,” it’s ironic that he has produced one fake deadline after another for his promise to repeal and replace ObamaCare. "
http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/healthcare/320701-fake-news-what-about-trumps-fake-promises