Just to throw another note out there:
Trump isn’t dumb no matter how he looks, it’s just that everything he does is designed to distract, no matter how stupid and bizarre said distraction may be.
Hence his idiotic and nonsensical idea of creating a Russian-US cybersecurity alliance, or whatever that was. What Trump is trying to do is baffle everyone so much that they forget to press him on immigration.
And this is the reason behind “covfefe” and the rest of that nonsense, too.
That’s what all of this is, really. What Trump is trying to do is stall for as much time as possible, so that he doesn’t have to act on immigration. And it doesn’t matter how he stalls, or what he does or has to say, no matter how idiotic.
The overriding theme of everything Trump does is that he has zero respect for anyone who voted for him, and he will work as hard as he can to avoid representing them or their interests so that his daughter can benefit from their downfall.
This is the arc of Donald and his entire career, basically. Trump isn’t a leader. He’s a natural salesman, which means that he doesn’t believe in anything besides that which benefits himself and those in his own inner circle.
Once he makes the sale, in his mind, that’s it. A deal’s a deal. He’s in the office, so screw you, you suckers who supported him. He has your money, and there are no refunds.
The problem with this approach is obvious: that’s not democracy. From the peoples’ point of view, they should be getting the things they voted for. And they didn’t vote to see Ivanka acting as President during G-20 meetings while Trump goes out golfing, that’s for sure.
And they didn’t vote for any kind of “cybersecurity” pact with Russia, that’s for damn sure. In fact that whole idea is just another direct inversion of everything that the people who voted for Trump want.
What people want is ECONOMIC and PEACE ORIENTED ties to Russia. In fact, they might be open anything with Russia BESIDES the whole “Internet” thing. Which… may be the reason we’re getting it, of course.
And they sure as hell didn’t vote for more Jesus, either. In fact, Trump’s whole appeal was that he was in the GOP and he *wasn’t* an evangelist. And they didn’t vote for Trumpcare, or for the infrastructure crap, or for any of the rest of it.
People, especially the common public masses, are very simple. They find a meme and stick to it, and Trump’s was Build The Wall. Which means: Reduce Immigration. This is why people voted for him, and this is the only reason people voted for him.
And if they don’t get it, and get in in spades, they’re going to get pissed off like hell.
We’re reaching the point now of the public being fooled once too many times. The public might be gullible- or at least conveniently forgiving- provided people have jobs and the opportunity to get out of debt and build up some savings, and such.
But when they can’t, and they remember that the damn punch bowl has been yanked away from them, time and time and time again, they’ll get angry.
See, that’s what the ruling families don’t get, clearly. “Democracy” or whatever this is that we have doesn’t work if the people never, ever get what they vote for, ever. Then, the system stops operating.
What happens after that is of course anyone’s guess.