[AMV] So-called Presidentschap van Trump #251

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Op maandag 6 februari 2017 01:11 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Het klopt dat ze redistricten, maar aangezien ze niet meegroeien qua zetels geldt ook hierbij, net als met de electoral college dat dunbevolkte staten relatief meer zetels krijgen. Daarnaast winnen democraten los van gerrymandering hun zetels met meer overmacht dan republikeinen. Dit was dus een ding wat getest is in Wisconsin... als je daar op de kaart kijkt zie je immers niet echt van die gekke gerrymandered districten, maar is er wel een systematisch nadeel.

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Op maandag 6 februari 2017 01:11 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Het klopt dat ze redistricten, maar aangezien ze niet meegroeien qua zetels geldt ook hierbij, net als met de electoral college dat dunbevolkte staten relatief meer zetels krijgen. Daarnaast winnen democraten los van gerrymandering hun zetels met meer overmacht dan republikeinen. Dit was dus een ding wat getest is in Wisconsin... als je daar op de kaart kijkt zie je immers niet echt van die gekke gerrymandered districten, maar is er wel een systematisch nadeel.

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Sean Spicer Press Conference - SNL

Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, might have thought that he could kick back, relax with Super Bowl LI and lick his wounds from the comedic drubbing he took from Melissa McCarthy on this weekend’s “Saturday Night Live.” The Internet had other ideas.

Spicer was getting crushed under an avalanche of “alternative facts” and more. So much more.

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ComedyCentral twitterde op maandag 06-02-2017 om 01:52:09 "The Patriots have more points." —Sean Spicer reageer retweet

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RepMarkTakano twitterde op maandag 06-02-2017 om 01:48:27 "The Patriots are off to one of the best starts in Super Bowl history." - @seanspicer reageer retweet

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Bencjacobs twitterde op maandag 06-02-2017 om 01:46:05 Sean Spicer tomorrow: The President was always rooting for the Falcons, period. reageer retweet

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TalkingSchmidt twitterde op maandag 06-02-2017 om 01:45:23 "The Patriots are kicking ass. Period."#SuperBowl https://t.co/jU9FWut7JS reageer retweet

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SeanSpicerFacts twitterde op maandag 06-02-2017 om 02:19:48 Sad! That the #SuperBowl has to resort to a "performer" like this, and they couldn't land a Bigly group like 3 Door… https://t.co/d00M61sMaT reageer retweet

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webjournalist twitterde op maandag 06-02-2017 om 01:51:40 More people were at the Inauguration than watched the #SuperBowl. https://t.co/JSTjbGEkWC reageer retweet

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Trump and Staff Rethink Tactics After Stumbles

Aides confer in the dark because they cannot figure out how to operate the light switches in the cabinet room. Visitors conclude their meetings and then wander around, testing doorknobs until finding one that leads to an exit. In a darkened, mostly empty West Wing, Mr. Trump's provocative chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon, finishes another 16-hour day planning new lines of attack.

Usually around 6:30 p.m., or sometimes later, Mr. Trump retires upstairs to the residence to recharge, vent and intermittently use Twitter. With his wife, Melania, and young son, Barron, staying in New York, he is almost always by himself, sometimes in the protective presence of his imposing longtime aide and former security chief, Keith Schiller. When Mr. Trump is not watching television in his bathrobe or on his phone reaching out to old campaign hands and advisers, he will sometimes set off to explore the unfamiliar surroundings of his new home.

During his first two dizzying weeks in office, Mr. Trump, an outsider president working with a surprisingly small crew of no more than a half-dozen empowered aides with virtually no familiarity with the workings of the White House or federal government, sent shock waves at home and overseas with a succession of executive orders designed to fulfill campaign promises and taunt foreign leaders.

"We are moving big and we are moving fast," Mr. Bannon said, when asked about the upheaval of the first two weeks. "We didn't come here to do small things."

But one thing has become apparent to both his allies and his opponents: When it comes to governing, speed does not always guarantee success.

The bungled rollout of his executive order barring immigrants from seven predominantly Muslim countries, a flurry of other miscues and embarrassments, and an approval rating lower than that of any comparable first-term president in the history of polling have Mr. Trump and his top staff rethinking an improvisational approach to governing that mirrors his chaotic presidential campaign, administration officials and Trump insiders said.

This account of the early days of the Trump White House is based on interviews with dozens of government officials, congressional aides, former staff members and other observers of the new administration, many of whom requested anonymity. At the center of the story, according to these sources, is a president determined to go big but increasingly frustrated by the efforts of his small team to contain the backlash.

"What are we going to do about this?" Mr. Trump pointedly asked an aide last week, a period of turmoil briefly interrupted by the successful rollout of his Supreme Court selection, Judge Neil M. Gorsuch.

Chris Ruddy, the chief executive of Newsmax Media and an old friend of the president's, said: "I think, in his mind, the success of this is going to be the poll numbers. If they continue to be weak or go lower, then somebody's going to have to bear some responsibility for that."

"I personally think that they're missing the big picture here," Mr. Ruddy said of Mr. Trump's staff. "Now he's so caught up, the administration is so caught up in turmoil, perceived chaos, that the Democrats smell blood, the protesters, the media smell blood."

One former staff member likened the aggressive approach of the first two weeks to D-Day, but said the president's team had stormed the beaches without any plan for a longer war.

Clashes among staff are common in the opening days of every administration, but they have seldom been so public and so pronounced this early. "This is a president who came to Washington vowing to shake up the establishment, and this is what it looks like. It's going to be a little sloppy, there are going to be conflicts," said Ari Fleischer, President George W. Bush's first press secretary.

All this is happening as Mr. Trump, a man of flexible ideology but fixed habits, adjusts to a new job, life and city.

Cloistered in the White House, he now has little access to his fans and supporters -- an important source of feedback and validation -- and feels increasingly pinched by the pressures of the job and the constant presence of protests, one of the reasons he was forced to scrap a planned trip to Milwaukee last week. For a sense of what is happening outside, he watches cable, both at night and during the day -- too much in the eyes of some aides -- often offering a bitter play-by-play of critics like CNN's Don Lemon.

Until the past few days, Mr. Trump was telling his friends and advisers that he believed the opening stages of his presidency were going well. "Did you hear that, this guy thinks it's been terrible!" Mr. Trump said mockingly to other aides when one dissenting view was voiced last week during a West Wing meeting.

But his opinion has begun to change with a relentless parade of bad headlines.

Mr. Trump got away from the White House this weekend for the first time since his inauguration, spending it in Palm Beach, Fla., at his private club, Mar-a-Lago, posting Twitter messages angrily -- and in personal terms -- about the federal judge who put a nationwide halt on the travel ban. Mr. Bannon and Reince Priebus, the two clashing power centers, traveled with him.

By then, the president, for whom chains of command and policy minutiae rarely meant much, was demanding that Mr. Priebus begin to put in effect a much more conventional White House protocol that had been taken for granted in previous administrations: From now on, Mr. Trump would be looped in on the drafting of executive orders much earlier in the process.

Another change will be a new set of checks on the previously unfettered power enjoyed by Mr. Bannon and the White House policy director, Stephen Miller, who oversees the implementation of the orders and who received the brunt of the internal and public criticism for the rollout of the travel ban.

Mr. Priebus has told Mr. Trump and Mr. Bannon that the administration needs to rethink its policy and communications operation in the wake of embarrassing revelations that key details of the orders were withheld from agencies, White House staff and Republican congressional leaders like Speaker Paul D. Ryan.

Mr. Priebus has also created a 10-point checklist for the release of any new initiatives that includes signoff from the communications department and the White House staff secretary, Robert Porter, according to several aides familiar with the process.

Mr. Priebus bristles at the perception that he occupies a diminished perch in the West Wing pecking order compared with previous chiefs. But for the moment, Mr. Bannon remains the president's dominant adviser, despite Mr. Trump's anger that he was not fully briefed on details of the executive order he signed giving his chief strategist a seat on the National Security Council, a greater source of frustration to the president than the fallout from the travel ban.

It is partly because he is seen as having a clear vision on policy. But it is also because others who had been expected to fill major roles have been less confident in asserting their power.

Jared Kushner, Mr. Trump's son-in-law, occupies a central role in the administration and has been present at most major decisions and photo ops, but he is a father of young children who has taken to life in Washington, and, along with his wife, Ivanka Trump, has already been spotted at events around town.

Mr. Bannon has rushed into the vacuum, telling allies that he and Mr. Miller have a brief window in which to push through their vision of Mr. Trump's economic nationalism.

Mr. Bannon, whose website, Breitbart, was a magnet for white nationalists and xenophobic speech, has also tried to reassure official Washington. He has been careful to build bridges with the Republican establishment, especially Mr. Ryan -- whom he once described as "the enemy" and vowed to force out. He now talks regularly with Mr. Ryan to coordinate strategy or plot their planned overhaul of the tax code.

Before he was ousted in November as transition chief, Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, the Trump adviser with the most government experience, helped prepare a detailed staffing and implementation plan in line with the kickoff strategies of previous Republican presidents.

It was discarded -- a senior Trump aide made a show of tossing it into a garbage can -- for a strategy that prioritized the daily release of dramatic executive orders to put opponents on the defensive.

Mr. Christie, who agrees in principle with the broad strokes of Mr. Trump's immigration policy, says the president has been let down by his staff.

"The president deserves better than the rollout he got on the immigration executive order," Mr. Christie said. "The fact is that he's put forward a policy that, in my opinion, is significantly more effective than what he had proposed during the campaign, yet because of the botched implementation, they allowed his opponents to attack him by calling it a Muslim ban."

In the past few days, Mr. Trump's team has stressed its cohesion and the challenges of jump-starting an administration that few outside its group ever thought would exist.

"This team spent months in the foxhole together during the campaign," said Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary. "We moved into the White House as a unified team committed to enacting the president's agenda."

As part of Mr. Trump's Oval Office renovation, he ordered that four hardback chairs be placed in a semicircle around his Resolute Desk now heaped, in Trump Tower fashion, with memos and newspapers. They are an emblem of Mr. Trump's in-your-face management style, but also a reminder that in the White House, the seats always outlast the people seated in them.

But finding enough skilled players to fill key slots has not been easy: Mr. Spicer is serving double duty as communications director, a key planning position, in addition to engaging in day-to-day combat with the news media. Mr. Trump, several aides said, is used to quarterbacking his own media strategy, and did not see the value of hiring an outsider.

An early plan was to give the communications job to Kellyanne Conway, his former campaign manager and top TV surrogate, but the demands of the job would have conflicted with Ms. Conway's other duties as a free-range adviser to Mr. Trump with Oval Office walk-in privileges, according to one aide.

Mr. Trump remains intensely focused on his brand, but the demands of the job mean he spends less time monitoring the news media -- although he recently upgraded the flat-screen TV in his private dining room so he can watch the news while eating lunch.

He often has to wait until the end of the workday before grinding through news clips with Mr. Spicer, marking the ones he does not like with a big arrow in black Sharpie -- though he almost always makes time to monitor Mr. Spicer's performance at the daily briefings, summoning him to offer praise or criticism, a West Wing aide said.

Visitors to the Oval Office say Mr. Trump is obsessed with the décor -- it is both a totem of a victory that validates him as a serious person and an image-burnishing backdrop -- so he has told his staff to schedule as many televised events in the room as possible.

To pass the time between meetings, Mr. Trump gives quick tours to visitors, highlighting little tweaks he has made after initially expecting he would have to pay for them himself.

Flanking his desk are portraits of Presidents Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson. He will linger on the opulence of the newly hung golden drapes, which he told a recent visitor were once used by Franklin D. Roosevelt but in fact were patterned for Bill Clinton. For a man who sometimes has trouble concentrating on policy memos, Mr. Trump was delighted to page through a book that offered him 17 window covering options.

Ultimately, this is very much the White House that Mr. Trump wanted to build. But while the world reckons with the effect he is having on the presidency, he is adjusting to the effect of the presidency on him. He is now a public employee. And the only boss Mr. Trump ever had in his life was his father, a hard-driving developer the president still treats with deep reverence.

With most of his belongings in New York, the only family picture on the shelf behind Mr. Trump's desk is a small black-and-white photograph of that boss, Frederick Christ Trump.

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Op maandag 6 februari 2017 06:20 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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https://www.nytimes.com/2(...)s-strategy.html?_r=0

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Op maandag 6 februari 2017 07:26 schreef Mystikvm het volgende:

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Interessant. Wat ik er uit op maak is dat Trump vooral de figurehead is. Nu zijn anonieme bronnen niet zoveel waard, maar het is bijna meelijwekkend. Die man zit op een plek die hij zelf nauwelijks kan bevatten. Dat hij dan zo druk is met gordijnen uitzoeken vind ik eerder aandoenlijk dan beschamend.

Trump is volgens mij ook niet het probleem. De inner circle is het probleem. Bannon heeft gedacht dat hij wel een Blitzkrieg op het establishment kon voeren, en heeft denk ik het vermogen van de liberals om daar tegen te ageren onderschat. Nu komen de backfires en is het team genoodzaakt conventionele Washington tactics toe te passen. Een paar cadeautjes weggeven, maar vooral traag moeten werken. Dat gaat niet lekker vallen bij de kiezer, en zorgt voor een soort "light" agenda van wat ze eigenlijk zouden moeten doen. Je ziet ook dat na de mislukte immigratieregels er eigenlijk maar weinig uit het Witte Huis is gekomen. Ze schakelen een paar tandjes terug.

Zelf verwacht ik dat ze meer gaan inspelen op apathie. Als de Blitzkrieg niet werkt, dan moet je het met het langzaam doorsijpelen van beleid gaan doen. Zoals Rob Wijnberg laatst zei: verontwaardiging gaat op en neer, het telt zelden op. Nu ging het zo snel dat het optelde. Je moet de veranderingen zo langzaam laten gaan dat elk nieuw besluit even wat verontwaardiging opwekt en dat het daarna wegebt. Dan kom je met je volgende besluit. Zo worden mensen apathisch. Ook de liberals.

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Op maandag 6 februari 2017 08:28 schreef Linus_van_Pelt het volgende:

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Ik hoop (ik durf hier geen 'denk' neer te zetten) dat deze regering het al zodanig verknald heeft bij de pers en de liberalen dat er geen sprake gaat zijn van algehele apathie. Gisteren in Buitenhof werd er gezegd dat de grote kranten en CNN extra onderzoeksjournalisten hebben aangenomen. Als de heren in het Witte Huis grote dingen gaan doen, dan zit er een legioen van journalisten klaar om alles te onderzoeken.

Vanaf het begin was al duidelijk dat Trump niet de boel zou leiden. Volgens mij was dat ook zo met Bush jr. en Reagan. Ik ben eerder benieuwd naar de rol van Pence. Het lijkt nu alsof Bannon, Priebus en Kushner de belangrijke rollen hebben. Terwijl iedereen dacht dat Pence zou regeren terwijl Trump het uithangbord zou worden (de Bush/Cheney variant).

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Op maandag 6 februari 2017 08:36 schreef Mystikvm het volgende:

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De pers zit wel op zijn huid. Hij heeft de oorlog aan de pers verklaard, zij gaan dus alles op alles zetten om de man het Witte Huis uit te schrijven. Dat zal de pers op veel kritiek komen te staan van de Trump-stemmers, maar hij heeft er wel gewoon om gevraagd.

Het risico is echter dat de pers niet één vuist maakt, maar voor eigen belangen gaat en met elke matige scoop probeert om de andere publicaties de loef af te steken. Dat veroorzaakt wel degelijk apathie, want je ziet nu al moeheid optreden over het verslag doen van elke scheet die Trump laat. Je moet je als pers terugtrekken en gericht onderzoek doen naar de handel en wandel van deze charlatan en dan in één keer met een vernietigend artikel naar buiten komen die de Republikeinen zal dwingen te accepteren dat deze man en zijn hele team het veld moet ruimen.

Ik zie in de tussentijd alleen maar verontwaardigde artikelen over de competenties van Trump. Ook dit topic staat vol met non-nieuws over de man. Ik merk ook in mijn persoonlijke kring dan mensen het een beetje zat beginnen te raken, terwijl het zeer linkse mensen zijn. De apathie treedt dus op als de pers op deze manier niet ter zake doende artikelen blijft publiceren in de hoop dat er iets aan de man blijft plakken. Dat gaat niet gebeuren.

Het enige wat deze man het Witte Huis uit gaat krijgen is bewijs dat hij zo corrupt als de pest is of dat hij aantoonbaar dikke banden met Rusland heeft waar hij zelf beter van wordt. Anders blijft hij gewoon zitten.

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Op maandag 6 februari 2017 08:47 schreef Linus_van_Pelt het volgende:

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Ik denk dat je gelijk hebt. Sommige mensen hebben de tekst 'Dit is niet normaal' opgehangen in hun huis om de apathie tegen te gaan. Hopelijk kan de formidabele geschreven pers in dat land het verschil maken. Het zal me niet verbazen als zij inderdaad inzetten op corruptie. Al zullen ze ook het grote idee van Bannon in de gaten houden.

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Op maandag 6 februari 2017 08:52 schreef Mystikvm het volgende:

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Ik hoop echt dat het niet gaat gebeuren, maar ik ben er bang voor. Check anders /r/politics op Reddit. Het is echt "grasping at straws" wat daar gebeurt. Letterlijk élk negatief artikel over Trump wordt daar gedeeld en massaal geupvote. Maar je bereikt er niets mee, dus doe het dan ook niet. Bewaar je actiebereidheid en verontwaardiging voor die paar momenten tijdens dit presidentschap dat het er toe kan doen. Ga niet je kruit verschieten op het feit dat Trump om 2 uur 's nachts TV zit te kijken en zit te twitteren. Want om eerlijk te zijn, who fucking cares?

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Op maandag 6 februari 2017 08:52 schreef Mystikvm het volgende:

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Ik hoop echt dat het niet gaat gebeuren, maar ik ben er bang voor. Check anders /r/politics op Reddit. Het is echt "grasping at straws" wat daar gebeurt. Letterlijk élk negatief artikel over Trump wordt daar gedeeld en massaal geupvote. Maar je bereikt er niets mee, dus doe het dan ook niet. Bewaar je actiebereidheid en verontwaardiging voor die paar momenten tijdens dit presidentschap dat het er toe kan doen. Ga niet je kruit verschieten op het feit dat Trump om 2 uur 's nachts TV zit te kijken en zit te twitteren. Want om eerlijk te zijn, who fucking cares?

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Op maandag 6 februari 2017 09:45 schreef Euribob het volgende:

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Dat is toch echter ook de manier van verslaggeving in Amerika? Continue analyse en rapportage van alles, 24 uur en zeven dagen per week? Ik zou m'n hoop niet vestigen op de Amerikaanse media die hun informatie gaan bewaren totdat ze echt een verhaal hebben, want dat gaat gewoon niet gebeuren.

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Op maandag 6 februari 2017 04:34 schreef WhiteBeard het volgende:
Vriend van Trump wint de Super Bowl, Tom Brady. MAGA

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WSJ twitterde op maandag 06-02-2017 om 02:46:02 The Falcons now have a 91.6% chance of winning Super Bowl LI. Live analysis: https://t.co/mk4bqHgeQr reageer retweet

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jdelreal twitterde op maandag 06-02-2017 om 04:15:40 But don't those early Florida exit polls look a little weird to you? https://t.co/2miDqjng3c reageer retweet

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Op maandag 6 februari 2017 09:45 schreef Euribob het volgende:

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Dat is toch echter ook de manier van verslaggeving in Amerika? Continue analyse en rapportage van alles, 24 uur en zeven dagen per week? Ik zou m'n hoop niet vestigen op de Amerikaanse media die hun informatie gaan bewaren totdat ze echt een verhaal hebben, want dat gaat gewoon niet gebeuren.

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Op maandag 6 februari 2017 10:13 schreef Klopkoek het volgende:
NFL is de ultieme sport voor macho rednecks en racisten. De zwarten zijn het kannonenvlees, de witten de zgn intelligente quarterbacks.

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Op maandag 6 februari 2017 10:13 schreef Klopkoek het volgende:
NFL is de ultieme sport voor macho rednecks en racisten. De zwarten zijn het kannonenvlees, de witten de zgn intelligente quarterbacks.