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Your quickness to deflect blame, readiness to designate scapegoats,
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possibly insurmountable obstacles to governing.
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THE EGG AND US:
CONTEXTUALIZATION
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By SAMANTHA HOEKSTRA
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The Opinion Pages | Op-Ed Columnist
Donald Trump Is Never to Blame
Poor Donald Trump, so late to the lesson that so many plutocrats before him learned: You can’t find good help.
Jeff Sessions? What a bust.
True, he was never the nimblest newt in the swamp and had all that
racial muck in his past. But he mirrored his master’s irreverence and
atavism, with slighter dimensions and a Southern accent: Donald in a
Dixie cup. Surely Sessions and his Justice Department could be expected
to accomplish something as straightforward as keeping the Muslims at
bay.
Hah.
More than four months since the inauguration, there’s meager,
flickering hope for the travel ban that wasn’t a travel ban until it
became a travel ban again. The fault for that cannot possibly lie with
its foundation of bigotry, its shoddy conception or the president’s own
sloppy and shifting characterizations of it over time. No, there must be
a fall guy with less shimmering tresses. The buck stops anywhere but hair.
So does the pound, the euro and every last bit of spare change and pocket lint. If Trump is feuding with the London mayor,
it’s the mayor who should be abashed. If Trump is at odds with Angela
Merkel, she must have something to apologize for. Never mind his
baseless tweets and boundless pique. He’s the American president,
they’re not, and global hegemony means never having to say you’re sorry.
Continue reading the main story
But
back to the Potomac and his principal aides, unprincipled underlings
and princeling of a son-in-law, each more incompetent than the next.
The
buck stops with Sean Spicer, who kept wandering from the script like a
toddler into traffic. All he had to do was stick to his lines: The
president’s proposals are the wisest. The president’s ethics are the
purest. The president’s crowds are the biggest. The president’s
detractors fall into three camps: illegals, commies and Samantha Bee.
He couldn’t manage that much, or rather that little, and so Sarah Huckabee Sanders is claiming ever more podium time.
She won’t last. No one will. The relevant sinkhole isn’t the one that
opened up just outside Mar-a-Loco last month. It’s the one beneath the
feet of anyone dippy, delusional or daring enough to think that
Trumplandia is terrain on which to make a positive difference, let alone
a career.
The
buck stops with Jared Kushner, never mind that his grandiosity and
shortcuts were emulations of dear old dad-in-law. He has lumbered onto
investigators’ radar and thus teetered ever so slightly from favor —
that’s Steve Bannon chortling in the background — though he reportedly
tasted Trump’s rancor before, when he hid in Aspen during the health
care debacle, skiing while Washington churned.
Where
will the buck stop next? With the tiniest Trump, Barron? He has some
nerve doing homework while tax reform is still being hammered out and
infrastructure is just coming together.
Trump’s
quickness to deflect blame, readiness to designate scapegoats,
unpredictable tirades and stinginess with the loyalty that he demands
from others aren’t just character flaws. They’re serious and quite
possibly insurmountable obstacles to governing.
Those
who serve him are forever fearful of being undercut, perpetually having
to defend behavior from him that’s indefensible, and demoralized as a
result. Consider Defense Secretary James Mattis, whose torments
were summarized by James Hohmann this week in The Washington Post. How
can the country get the best from him when he’s getting the worst from
Trump?
Many of the country’s diplomats are in a funk,
as my Times colleague Mark Landler just recounted, and the ludicrously
large number of unfilled positions throughout the administration partly
reflects the limited appeal of such a gloomy club. There was never any overflow
of top-tier applicants, given how many Republicans swore off Trump and
how many others were spurned by him for not being obsequious enough.
But
now that the terms of working for him — ridicule by tweet, potentially
stratospheric legal bills — are clear, the pool of available talent is a
puddle too shallow to keep a newt afloat. Mike Allen reported in Axios
on Tuesday morning that the creation of Trump’s “war room”
— a battalion of lawyers and such who would do damage control during
the Russia probe — is on hold, because he can’t find the soldiers to
staff it.
By
many accounts, the atmosphere in the White House is one part high
school cafeteria, two parts “Lord of the Flies.” Aides who are jockeying
for position and trying to safeguard their reputations ask operatives
on the outside to whisper to the media that they’re up while their
rivals are down, and so we’re subjected to a daily Dow Jones on the
stock of various players, with special note of who has Oval Office
“walk-in privileges.”
I suspect that the Trump era will flip that phrase, and the people walking out of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue will be seen as — and be — the privileged ones.
