DONALD TRUMP, THE PRE-PRESIDENT

I have restrained myself from commenting on the results of the recent election while sausage is being made in forming the next administration.  It is not completely made (No Secretary of Agriculture has been named, for example.).  But we are far enough along to make some comments on things like defense contractors defense contractors.  It is that he is not president yet.  He is making top-of-the-head comments about policies that have been in force by Republican and Democratic administrations alike for decades.

President Trump is like a 3 yr old who can't wait until Christmas but starts whining a month before, a week before, a day before.  And he is very impulsive writing those tweets before he becomes president.

Everything about him proves to be an exception.  He won't reveal his taxes.  He is not going to pay any attention to conflict-of-interest rules and plans to monetize his term of president.  He is to some extent taking over the presidency before he is president..  If you don't like it, impeach him.  It seems the same will go for his appointees, unless they voluntarily comply.  I'm sure there are those who love these sorts of heavy-handed things.

At least we know that Trump doesn't have any stock in Boeing or Lockheed since he bad mouths both.  Apparently he used to have stock in Boeing but we are told he sold all his stock last June, although there is no proof of this.  It is not that I think it is undeserved that Trump comment on these companies, but he is not president yet.

Please recall that Trump did not have even a Board of Directors, although many CEOs are also Chairman of the Board.  So he has had no restraining  matters in his life,.  This is why CEO's seem to make bad politicians.  There are used to being little Golds (and many they don't recognize the word "little").

Consider Paul H. O'Neill who was president Bush's (43) Secretary of the Treasury.  He had to be let go because he kept telling the truth and wasn't diplomatic.  And then there was Donald Rumsfeld, Bush's Secretary of Defense who finally resigned under fire.  I loved to hear him speak and so did the press.  He had to be changed in 2006 because of the "Generals Revolt."  Both these men were successful CEOs and both had previous government experience, but they had to go

Now we are to have CEOs all over the government and generals too.   A proposed Secretary of Labor who is anti-labor.  A Director of EPA who is anti-environment.  A secretary of Education who is opposed to public education.  They won't be able to shut the Departments down* but can do a lot of damage. I'll accept the Secretary of State being Rex Tillerson,CEO of Exxon-Mobile, because he is recommended by Bob Gates (whom I greatly admire), but the guy has had no public experience and may find it even harder to convert than those CEO's who had previous government experience.

And the new administration seems to be very vindictive (Nixonian).  The names of all who worked on Global Warming in EPA  were asked for, and I doubt it was to give them a medal.  Fortunately some backbone was shown and there was refusal to give the names.  George W. Bush was somewhat the same though he wanted to pack the scientific committees with Creationists (give them equal time).  It is "Don't bother me with the facts, this is what I believe."

It is hard to see how this ends well.

* http://stopcontinentaldrift.blogspot.com/2016/12/eliminating-federal-government.html