https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/24/opin...eals-trumps-flaws-dantonio-opinion/index.html
Time and again, Trump demonstrated that his do-it-my-way ego, and not some special gift for leadership, was driving his presidency.
• Faced with a planet-threatening environmental catastrophe, he pulled out of the agreement that binds every other nation on Earth to a plan to slow climate change.
• Confronted with the fact of Russia's effort to influence our election and degrade our democracy, he has cozied up to Vladimir Putin.
• Challenged by a troubled immigration system that has left many so-called Dreamers in limbo, he created a crisis by moving to end DACA and then failing to craft a real solution.
• Given the opportunity to bring America's infrastructure up to snuff, he hasn't been able to make any real progress.
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The empathy Trump's notecard stressed that he practice has come naturally to most presidents. In similar times of crisis, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and others have instinctively shared in the grief of victims and been moved to act. The fact that Trump needed a written reminder to show sensitivity, curiosity, kindness, compassion, courage and conviction is a pathetic and ultimately unsettling sign that even after a year he can't quite do his job.
Time and again, Trump demonstrated that his do-it-my-way ego, and not some special gift for leadership, was driving his presidency.
• Faced with a planet-threatening environmental catastrophe, he pulled out of the agreement that binds every other nation on Earth to a plan to slow climate change.
• Confronted with the fact of Russia's effort to influence our election and degrade our democracy, he has cozied up to Vladimir Putin.
• Challenged by a troubled immigration system that has left many so-called Dreamers in limbo, he created a crisis by moving to end DACA and then failing to craft a real solution.
• Given the opportunity to bring America's infrastructure up to snuff, he hasn't been able to make any real progress.
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The empathy Trump's notecard stressed that he practice has come naturally to most presidents. In similar times of crisis, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and others have instinctively shared in the grief of victims and been moved to act. The fact that Trump needed a written reminder to show sensitivity, curiosity, kindness, compassion, courage and conviction is a pathetic and ultimately unsettling sign that even after a year he can't quite do his job.
