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Generic Other

(28,979 posts)
Fri Apr 28, 2017, 07:28 PM Apr 2017

Trump 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 … I’m a details-oriented person. I think you’d say that, but I do miss my old life. I like to work so that’s not a problem but this is actually more work.”

It wasn’t 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.” (Gingrich’s 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.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/04/28/trump-now-agrees-with-the-majority-of-americans-he-wasnt-ready-to-be-president/?utm_term=.a86d967b588f&wpisrc=nl_most-draw6&wpmm=1

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Trump now agrees with the majority of Americans: He wasnt ready to be president (Original Post) Generic Other Apr 2017 OP
No shit??? liberalmuse Apr 2017 #1
Oh yeah?! Well what are you going to do about it? ProudLib72 Apr 2017 #2
Being President ain't easy, you know? You're tired, just leave, go back to golfing. L. Coyote Apr 2017 #3
Wasn't? Still isn't. Never will be. Thor_MN Apr 2017 #4
"Ready"? drumpfuck will never be ready for anything Cha Apr 2017 #5
Trump Just Whined About His Hard Job. Bushs Speechwriters Response Is EPIC L. Coyote Apr 2017 #6
OK now that was just mean! Generic Other Apr 2017 #7
The phrase... 3catwoman3 Apr 2017 #8

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)
2. Oh yeah?! Well what are you going to do about it?
Fri Apr 28, 2017, 07:41 PM
Apr 2017

Suck it up, princess, or step the fuck down. Personally, I would rather you choose the second option.

L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
6. Trump Just Whined About His Hard Job. Bushs Speechwriters Response Is EPIC
Fri Apr 28, 2017, 08:06 PM
Apr 2017
http://occupydemocrats.com/2017/04/28/trump-just-whined-hard-job-bushs-speechwriters-response-epic/

No one would accuse the man who served as George W. Bush’s first presidential speechwriter of being a liberal. Still, David Frum has been a vocal and powerful critic of President Trump, both for his many conflicts of interest and his total lack of preparedness for the job of Commander-in-Chief.

Today’s 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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