Trump has delegated the running of the government to people like Vought and Miller, who are freely imposing their own vengeful policies on the American public. Trump is disinterested in the effect of those policies and how they hurt people. He is the most clueless person ever to occupy the Oval Office and literally sleeps through most meetings, probably falling asleep after his sycophantic administrators end their North Korea style mandatory praise of his genius and overall wonderfulness because he has no interest in anything else.
“Ask Donald Trump about the goings on of his administration, and there is a good chance he’ll defer to a deputy rather than answer the question. “I don’t know her,” he said when asked about his nominee for surgeon general, Casey Means, earlier this year. “I listened to the recommendation of Bobby,” he said, pointing to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of health and human services.
Ask Trump for insight into why his administration made a choice or to explain a particular decision, and he’ll be at a loss for words. Ask him to comment on a scandal? He’ll plead ignorance. “I know nothing about it,” Trump said last week, when asked about the latest tranche of photographs released from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein.
None of this on its own means the president isn’t working or paying attention to the duties of his office. But consider the rest of the evidence. He is by most accounts isolated from the outside world. He does not travel the country and rarely meets with ordinary Americans outside the White House. He is shuttled from one Trump resort to another to play golf and hold court with donors, supporters and hangers-on.”
Here’s the free link. Good read.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/opinion/trump-presidential-power-miller-vought.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9U8.cmew.QRzwnnnsrNEQ&smid=url-share
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