Going by the article, it sounds like the Pres. lets his people do their jobs rather than minutely overseeing every detail of what goes on every minute of every day. So in this case, they were doing their jobs at the OMB and he ended up overturning one of their decisions when he found out about it.
I have no idea if the article is accurate or not, but it certainly is a plausible explanation of events, imo, and far less contorted than the one required to support a belief that the whole chain of events was orchestrated.
President Trump's good qualities
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‘It’ll happen fast’: Trump creates problems and then rushes in to solve them
Putin does this all the time. Blames the underlings for some highly unpopular policy, then steps in to solve a small part of it. Last week, it was "Putin says we shouldn't put people in jail needlessly" with the reference to two imprisoned dissidents. In this case, he wanted the practice to continue so he acted as if it was out of his hands.
‘It’ll happen fast’: Trump creates problems and then rushes in to solve them
Putin does this all the time. Blames the underlings for some highly unpopular policy, then steps in to solve a small part of it. Last week, it was "Putin says we shouldn't put people in jail needlessly" with the reference to two imprisoned dissidents. In this case, he wanted the practice to continue so he acted as if it was out of his hands.
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From the link above, emphasis added:
Something tells me this would not be a very accurate description of Putin.Some of Trump’s reversals come because he is at odds with his own government, and occasionally unaware about what his administration is doing or proposing. While Trump has claimed that his administration operates as a “well-oiled machine,” insider accounts and tell-all books have indicated that Trump’s ad hoc approach to governing is often the source of the very chaos the president ends up having to resolve.“The reason he gets surprised by these problems is because he’s not detail-oriented,” said Tim O’Brien, author of the biography “TrumpNation: The Art of Being The Donald.” “He has a really short attention span, and he’s profoundly impatient.
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This, in a thread entitled "President Trump's Good Qualities." If these are among his good qualities, I'd hate to see what his bad qualities are.Cerin wrote:From the link above, emphasis added:
Some of Trump’s reversals come because he is at odds with his own government, and occasionally unaware about what his administration is doing or proposing. While Trump has claimed that his administration operates as a “well-oiled machine,” insider accounts and tell-all books have indicated that Trump’s ad hoc approach to governing is often the source of the very chaos the president ends up having to resolve.“The reason he gets surprised by these problems is because he’s not detail-oriented,” said Tim O’Brien, author of the biography “TrumpNation: The Art of Being The Donald.” “He has a really short attention span, and he’s profoundly impatient.
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Supporting this http://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/29/us/po ... mpics.htmlFrelga wrote:IAWVtF
‘It’ll happen fast’: Trump creates problems and then rushes in to solve them
Putin does this all the time. Blames the underlings for some highly unpopular policy, then steps in to solve a small part of it. Last week, it was "Putin says we shouldn't put people in jail needlessly" with the reference to two imprisoned dissidents. In this case, he wanted the practice to continue so he acted as if it was out of his hands.
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was a 2020 planner.
"Does anyone ever think about Denethor, the guy driven to madness by staying up late into the night alone in the dark staring at a flickering device he believed revealed unvarnished truth about the outside word, but which in fact showed mostly manipulated media created by a hostile power committed to portraying nothing but bad news framed in the worst possible way in order to sap hope, courage, and the will to go on? Seems like he's someone we should think about." - Dave_LF
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Well, he's finally done something I wholeheartedly approve of: animal cruelty has now been made a felony!
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And you think that love is only for the lucky and the strong,
Just remember in the winter far beneath the bitter snows,
Lies the seed, that with the sun's love, in the spring becomes The Rose.
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Excellent.
There was one more - a law saying that hospital prices have to be openly reported. I need to find that article again.
There was one more - a law saying that hospital prices have to be openly reported. I need to find that article again.
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