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UPDATE II: "[I]n recent days, Trump has boasted about all the legislation he has signed.
'We passed and signed 38 pieces of legislation, which nobody likes to talk about,' Trump said June 13 before a lunch with lawmakers. 'I think probably seldom has any president and administration done more or had more success so early on, including a record number of resolutions to eliminate job-killing regulations.'
And he tweeted the same message on Friday morning. . .
A White House spokesperson confirmed to NPR that at the time of Trump's tweet, the number was actually 39 — not 38.
Measuring laws passed by counting rather than by significance is pretty meaningless. More on that in a bit. Among modern Oval Office occupants, Presidents Jimmy Carter (52), George H.W. Bush (41) and Bill Clinton (41) had all signed more bills into law than Trump has by this point in their presidencies.
So, what has Trump accomplished with Congress so far? Nothing that political scientists would categorize as major pieces of legislation."
Read NPR, Despite Claims To Contrary, Trump Has Signed No Major Laws 5 Months In.
UPDATE: It's all about The Donald, and a few superficial rallies and so-called wins.
Read the Washington Post, Why Trump will never get anything done, which points out:
"Donald Trump promised to get Congress to repeal Obamacare, enact tax reform, pass a $1 trillion infrastructure plan, impose tariffs on outsourcers, subsidize child care and fund a border wall with Mexico — all in the first 100 days of his presidency. Not surprisingly, none of those things happened. What is surprising is that little of this agenda has even been submitted by the president to Congress: no tax bill, no infrastructure bill, no anti-outsourcing bill, no child-care bill and no legislation to build the wall. Why?
The explanation goes beyond the usual factors that bedevil any new president — overpromising on the pace of action, underpreparing for the challenges of office, trouble in staffing up. These do play some part in Trump’s achingly slow start. But Trump’s failure to get key agenda items to the starting line reflects more fundamental problems in policymaking — problems that will persist even after this administration is fully staffed and acclimated.
First, policymaking at the White House is hard and tedious work that involves digesting reams of paper, weighing difficult trade-offs and enduring hours of meetings. There is little evidence Trump has any interest in this sort of endeavor. . .
Second, Trump’s career reflects an inconsistency and expediency about ideas that indicate he will never take policymaking seriously. . . He has embraced government-funded universal health care, supported late-term abortions and proposed the largest tax hike in history — and the exact opposite of all of these things, as well — to achieve his political objectives at a given moment. While running for president, Trump said that the minimum wage was 'too high,' that it should not change and that it 'has to go up.' On a single day of the 2016 campaign, he broadcast three stances on his core campaign issue — immigration policy. . . [A]bsent specific direction from the president at each juncture in the process, his team is probably hard-pressed to divine the Trump policy approach to any question, beyond political expediency. . .
Finally, the Trump policy process must surely be gridlocked because — to the extent there is any indication of what Trumpism is as a policy philosophy — it is a jumble of populist slogans and corporatist concessions totally at war with itself. The Trump plan includes a promise to raise taxes on corporations that outsource and a pledge to cut taxes on those same corporations to a record low. Trump has embraced a Democratic plan to restore limits on Wall Street that were removed 20 years ago — while advancing a Republican plan to strip away limits imposed after the 2008 financial crisis. He has called for $1 trillion in new infrastructure spending but proposed a budget without a penny of net new spending or borrowing. He promised voters they would get better health-care coverage, then held a party in the White House Rose Garden for a House bill that would allow insurance companies to slash benefits — a bill that he characterized as “mean” the following month. Every campaign agenda contains some half-zebras, half-elephants — but the Trump platform designed to appeal to disaffected manufacturing workers who resent globalization, and disaffected globalists who resent taxation and regulation, is especially problematic in implementation."
But The Donald sure is pretty!
Trump at his most recent rally:
I feel pretty,
Oh, so pretty,
I feel pretty and witty and bright!
And I pity
Any anyone who doesn't worship me now.
I feel charming,
Oh, so charming
It's alarming how charming I feel!
And so pretty
That I hardly can believe how many stupid people are here tonight.
See the pretty President in that mirror there:
Who can that attractive President be?
Such a pretty face,
Such a pretty hands,
Such a pretty smile,
Such a pretty me!
I feel stunning
And entrancing,
Feel like running for President again,
For I'm loved
By a lot of foolish people!
Read the Washington Post:
With a raucous rally in Cedar Rapids, Trump transports himself back to 2016,
Trump simply can’t stop exaggerating his electoral wins, and
Back in campaign mode, Trump hits on immigration and a border wall.
Read also:
Trump is a Psycho-Narcissistic Con Man, where I first noted that Trump is a psycho-narcissistic con man,
Trump is a Psycho-Narcissistic Con Man (Cont.),
Trump is a Psycho-Narcissistic Con Man (Cont., Part 2),
Trump is a Psycho-Narcissistic Con Man (Cont., Part 3), and
Trump's Big CON: Thank You Dear Leader (AKA Trump is a Psycho-Narcissistic Con Man (Cont., Part 4)).
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