"I thought the job would be easier."

[kentuck]

For real?!

What type of naive, uninformed, uneducated person would say something like that about the job of being President of the United States?

Did he really think that negotiating and making threats to business competitors would work in the real world? That he could make threats to unfriendly countries the same way he might threaten another corporation? Could he not see the fears and tensions that are so easily stoked by careless words spoken by the leader of the free world?

Can we realistically expect him to change at this late stage of life? He is in a bubble that is not of this world.

[Gothmog]

1. Trump is an idiot

[True Dough]

2. "What type of naive, uninformed, uneducated person would say something like that?"

[underpants]

3. Realize that he lost one of his main weapons - threat of lawsuits.

Mentored by Roy Cohn, he used the threat of lawsuits (especially against those who didn't have means) to get his way. He can't do that anymore.

[FSogol]

6. Also as a business man, he can walk away from any deal that didn't go his way. As President, it is

impossible to walk away from Mexico, healthcare, the economy, etc. They will always be there.

[Tanuki]

4. He's also not making a sincere effort to correct his deficiencies and get up to speed.

It's obvious from the amount of time he spends watching junk tv, sniping on Twitter, jetting off to Palm Beach most weekends, and working on his golf game that this will never get any better. He is a cypher, easily manipulated at any given moment by the next bigger bullshit artist. Heaven help us.

[onecaliberal]

5. He is breathtakingly stupid of course he thought that.

[L. Coyote]

7. "Who knew this was a high IQ job?"

Obviously, in the USA, not enough voters know what high IQ is!

[BeyondGeography]

8. Trump to his voters: I wish you hadn't done that

[peggysue2]

9. Of course, he did

Because he never took the position seriously, as in giving the details or the awesome responsibility much thought. Claiming the Presidency by hook or by crook was simply another acquisition.

If I recall correctly, the Turmpster said he could run the WH and his private businesses without breaking a sweat. He also said healthcare repeal and replace would be easy-peasy, accomplished on Day 1. Then he did a 180, claiming no one realized how complicated healthcare could be. The Wall that Mexico would pay for?? Maybe not, then absolutely it will be built. Terminating NAFTA then renegotiating NAFTA. China is a currency manipulator to China is not a currency manipulator. NATO is obsolete to . . . maybe not. Little Kim of NK is creating really bad, bad trouble, then Little Kim is a young guy who lost his father and assumed power which isn't easy. Etc., etc., etc., . . .

The Trumpster is learning that governing is far different than entertaining and that pie-in-the-sky promises will come back to bite you.

Being Grifter of the Year may have sustained his TV persona. But now after 100 days, the Man Who Would Be King has revealed himself as a hot-air balloon.

This whole muddle of events and misfirings would be funny if it wasn't so damn dangerous.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

10. Trump voters apparently though the job of president was easier than it is too.

They thought you could take any moron and make them a successful president. Nope.

[seaglass]

11. Vicente Fox said it best - lol

Link to tweet

[mnmoderatedem]

12. "Nobody knew healthcare could be so complicated."

all of these statements would send shock waves if any other president.

For trump, just another day in trumpieland.

[GreenEyedLefty]

13. Who says such a thing? A racist, that's who.

I'm not fooled, those words were a racist dog whistle.

Some people do their jobs so well and with such skill and deftness, that they make it *look* easy. DFT made this mistake with Barack Obama by undervaluing, underestimating and marginalizing our former president. He ASSumed that because the black guy did it, it must be easy. Now that DFT is in the hot seat, he cannot *stand* being so transparently out of his league.

Oh well. Until something is actually done I guess we get to watch the shit show continue to unfold.