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An Efficient President is the Last Thing the US Needs

• The Daily Bell

What the President Does … By  Jonathan Bernstein  Turns out maybe Donald Trump doesn't want to be president after all. Oh, he wants to run for president. Almost certainly wants to win. Probably wants to be inaugurated. But doing the actual job? That's something else. At least according to Paul Manafort, Trump's strategist and campaign chairman, in an interview with HuffPost's Howard Fineman. -Bloomberg

So Donald Trump wants the job of president but he doesn't actually want to do the work involved.

This Bloomberg editorial is sharply critical of Trump's apparent perspective. An active, engaged president is absolutely necessary to the success of a president's reign, we learn.

But who defines success and what does it mean? Is it possible that a disengaged president might be more "successful" from the public's point of view?

Perhaps the nation will find out if Trump wins.

The editorial relates that Trump sees himself playing the role of chairman of the board when it came to the presidency.

However, the article points out that the job of being president is effectively the job of a chief executive. That's not just a title. It's the job's essence.

The presidency is a full-time, hands-on job, and it only works with a master politician in the Oval Office, obsessively building up his or her ability to influence all those the president must work with.

… Executive-branch agencies won't do what the president wants without active management (indeed, it's hard even for engaged presidents to get them to). … When presidents become disengaged, the results can be disastrous.

Obama can be seen as a somewhat detached president given the amount of vacations he's taken and rounds of golf played.


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