Trump's need for praise is downright creepy.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the ... fa26a3405eAt Wednesday's Cabinet meeting, Vice President Pence decided he'd just handle praising Trump for the entire team.
Over nearly three minutes, Pence offered plaudit after plaudit after plaudit, praising Trump's vision, his words, his strategy and his results in light of the passage of tax cuts. By the end, Pence offered 14 separate commendations for Trump in less than three minutes -- math that works out to one every 12.5 seconds. And each bit of praise was addressed directly to Trump, who was seated directly across the table.
To call the video awkward is giving awkwardness a bad name. Trump just sits there, arms crossed, occasionally nodding his head, as Pence
gargles Trump's balls lists all the ways Trump is a super-hero.
Trump also rushed to sign the tax legislation, rather than waiting until early January as was originally planned, because of cable news.
https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/zmq4 ... rong-vgtrnHis decision wasn't prompted by the counsel of his advisors, or some ingenious political revelation—he signed the bill into law to prove the losers and haters of American cable news wrong.
"I was going to wait for a formal signing some time in early January, but then I watched the news this morning and they were all saying, 'Will he keep his promise, will he sign it by Christmas?'" Trump said during the signing. "And I called downstairs and said, 'Get it ready, we have to sign it now.'"
He later headed off to spend Christmas in Mar-a-Lago after not holding a press conference.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/22/politics/ ... index.htmlPresident Donald Trump told aides he was eager to take questions Friday and hold a news conference to tout his accomplishments before leaving for Mar-a-Lago, but some advisers argued against it.
The aides were eager to avoid him being besieged with questions about the investigation into Russian election meddling and other matters that could overshadow the tax bill he had signed into law, two White House officials told CNN.
Imagine the conversation.
Trump: Aw, c'mon, man, the people love me, they need to hear me Trump-smash the lying media and that fucking loser, Mulder.
Kelly: You mean Mueller, sir, and the answer is still a firm 'no'.
Trump: But I waaaant it! You have to let me have it! I'm President, see, it says so on my shiny coins!
Kelly: We'll let you hold a rally in January.
Trump: *sniff* You promise?
If Trump's staff have done one single thing right this year, it's keeping Trump away from pressers.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/pol ... 976675001/President Trump has only had one official solo press conference in his first year in office – far fewer than any of his modern predecessors.
The nonprofit American Presidency Project, which collects data on presidential press conferences dating back to the Nixon administration, noted the single press conference, which took place on Feb. 16.
Comparably, Barack Obama held seven in his first year in office, while George W. Bush held four.
Here's how everyone else stacked up during their first years in office:
- Bill Clinton: 11
- George H. W. Bush: 27
- Ronald Reagan: 6
- Jimmy Carter: 22
- Gerald Ford (who only served from August to December in his first year as president): 4
- Richard Nixon: 6
NB: I edited the formatting of the list for clarity.
As noted in some articles, Trump has been at joint press conferences with foreign leaders, which simply aren't the same. Also, Trump's single press conference puts him in a tie for POTUS press conference in 2017, with Obama.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/news_conferences.phpHere is a video of Trump's one and only press conference.
Yeah, it really is solid strategy to not do that more than once a year.
A quantum state of signature may or may not be here... you just ruined it.