The reason the problems had not been solved already was that America’s political leaders were too stupid, too corrupt, or too “politically correct” to solve them. Trump’s basic worldview, as articulated on the campaign trail, was that all the major dilemmas of American public policy had easy solutions. Trump didn’t realize being president is complicated And as his equal-opportunity openness to both new information and new “information” become clearer to all interested parties, the race will be on to manipulate the president and incite further chaos in American public policy. Some of the things he’s “learned” since taking office aren’t true, like when Paul Ryan convinced him Republicans had to do health care reform before tax reform.
Most fundamentally of all, Trump’s laziness and ignorance leave him easily manipulated. And Trump’s actual habits around issuing ignorant pronouncements and failing to obtain sound information don’t appear to have changed. But the wild swings themselves are disturbing and have consequences. That’s the dynamic behind many of this spring’s jarring policy reversals on backing out of NATO, Chinese currency manipulation, and relations with Russia.Īnd to the extent that Trump is replacing ignorance with information and bad policy with good policy, it deserves to be celebrated rather than mocked. As president, he is fitfully coming into contact with concrete policy choices, actual information, and well-informed people. Consequently, a lot of his assertions about critical matters of public concern are based on. This became clear when he said he realized dealing with North Korea was “not so easy” after 10 minutes with the Chinese president.ĭealing with complicated problems is an occupational hazard faced by outsiders in all fields - and there’s never been a president who is more of an outsider to the realm of public policy. Donald Trump doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
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