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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump now agrees with the majority of Americans: He wasnt ready to be president
Donald Trump spent a great portion of 2016 insisting that being president would be easy at least for him. HuffPost compiled a number of examples of him dismissing the problems that accompany the job as being easily dispatched. Building a wall on the border with Mexico is easy. Beating Hillary Clinton would be easy. Renegotiating the Iran deal would be easy. Paying down the national debt would be easy. Acting presidential? Easy.
To a reporter from Reuters this week, though, Trump had a slightly different assessment of the presidency.
I love my previous life. I had so many things going. This is more work than in my previous life, Trump said. I thought it would be easier. I thought it was more of a
Im a details-oriented person. I think youd say that, but I do miss my old life. I like to work so thats not a problem but this is actually more work.
It wasnt the first time that Trump copped to the job being trickier than he anticipated. In November, NBC News reported that Trump had told former House speaker Newt Gingrich that This is really a bigger job than I thought. (Gingrichs response?
good. He should think that.) Then there are individual issues. Nobody knew health care could be so complicated, he said at one point. At another, he revealed that it took a conversation with the president of China to realize that the situation on the Korean peninsula was not so easy.
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liberalmuse
(18,672 posts)Go back to your previous life. Please! You are a fucking embarrassment to planet Earth.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Suck it up, princess, or step the fuck down. Personally, I would rather you choose the second option.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)Cha
(297,601 posts)other than tweeting from his toilet seat
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Todays report that Trump thought the job of being President would be easier, and that he missed his old life, seems to have set Frum off. .........
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(28,979 posts)3catwoman3
(24,038 posts)..."No shit, Sherlock," comes to mind.