No one is even pretending to expect presidential leadership anymore.
The president’s decision to do, essentially, nothing wasn’t an oversight. It was the product of a cost-benefit analysis by Trump and his senior White House staff, who know their man.
“Trump and some of his advisers calculated that he should not speak to the nation because he had nothing new to say and had no tangible policy or action to announce yet, according to a senior administration official,” the Washington Post“Evidently not feeling an urgent motivation Sunday to try to bring people together, he stayed silent.”
Trump’s advisers could only keep him silent—or limited to a few unhelpful tweets a day, at least—for so long. The problem with keeping Trump silent as a deliberate strategy is that it means the news will treat him as a secondary actor, a status that Trump is psychologically incapable of permitting for more than a few hours. He became president, after all, to ensure the news centered on him.
This sentence could have been written at any point since 2017, but it seems important to emphasize it today: The United States is, somehow, going to have to make it until at least Jan. 20, 2021, under a situation in which the elected leader, in the best-case scenario, just keeps quiet and, in the average- to worst-case scenario, creates more trouble.
Trump gave a national Oval Office address to the country early in the coronavirus outbreak. Either he or his advisers got the unfortunate idea in their head that anything he said could “calm” the nation. It was a
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