What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

[Tamas]

If we manage to avoid a nuclear holocaust by some great miracle, these next 4 years will be just hilarious. 

[garbon]

If we manage to avoid a nuclear holocaust by some great miracle, these next 4 years will be just hilarious. 

Ah the vaunted Hungarian sense of humor.

[Eddie Teach]

"My hovercraft is full of eels!"

[Tamas]

"My hovercraft is full of eels!"

I am no longer infected.

[derspiess]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4012096/DiCaprio-meets-Trump-green-jobs-boost-economy.html

We might finally get those green jobs

[Valmy]

And you were afraid the Green Job gravy train would dry up on January 21st. Well fear not Spicey!

[Savonarola]

Maybe I've been posting here too long, but when I saw this headline on CNN:

Reich to Trump: Stop acting vindictive

I immediately thought that the far right in Europe had made even more gains than I was led to believe.  Also this Reich is different from the last; it's a kinder, gentler, oppressive totalitarian state.   

(It turns out they meant Robert Reich, not the Fourth Reich.  Which is worse?  I'll leave that up to you.)

[LaCroix]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4012096/DiCaprio-meets-Trump-green-jobs-boost-economy.html

We might finally get those green jobs

trump was supposed to be the oil candidate 

[The Minsky Moment]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/dec/07/trump-scott-pruitt-environmental-protection-agency

"We're very accustomed to the naysayers and the critics," said Trump aide Kellyanne Conway.

OK Spiro.  The nattering nabobs hear you.
Try doing that which is not stupid and perhaps there will be fewer saying nay.

[The Minsky Moment]

In answer to the OP question it's starting to come into focus.  We've elected a king.

Every President has their kitchen cabinet but Trump takes it to the next level.  He has what can only be described as a court.  Milling around him at the throne room high in Trump Tower (or in his winter palace at Mar-a-lago) is a motley collection of high officials, ambitious office seekers, informal advisers, cronies, has-been politicians, and curious celebrities, all jockeying for the ear of the monarch, for access and for royal favor.  In the inner circle of course is the royal family itself: sons, daughters, children-in-law, and those who want to get to the king are well-advised to curry favor there first.  Would-be office holders are not vetted confidentiality and formally according to the traditions and standard procedures of our constitutional republic.  Rather they most present themselves publically to the court, to be paraded for the courtiers to admire or slander, as they desperately try to navigate through the intrigues and infighting of the royal entourage.  Sometimes men of great reputation receive office, to burnish the reputation of the king as a man who seeks wise counsel.  Other times, the great are humbled for the amusement of the masses, and other lesser sorts are given office.  Every court needs its jesters.

The king himself avoids sullying his royal person with mundane aspects of constitutional governance.  That is the kind of dangerous muck for courtiers to handle, so that he can always be able to blame any unpopular outcome on treacherous advisers.  Instead our monarch-elect conducts grand processions through the country where the simple people can come to do him homage and he may condescend to thank them.  In his spare time, he selects some unpopular merchant to intimidate (or collude with) so that he can present himself as the beneficient protector of his subjects.  On foreign matters, he says little of policy - instead preferring personal contacts with foreign potentates, typically in the company of his children.  Dynastic considerations trump national concerns.

On the great matters of the day, the king either says nothing or says something for everyone.  He is for the repeal of Obamacare, but also wants to preserve every part of it.  He is against the Iran treaty but perhaps will abide by it.  He will deport millions unless he won't.  He will or will not scrap the Paris agreement.  He is for "fair trade" which is not free trade except when it is.  Those who care about such things no longer bother to analyze his words.  They instead join the scrum of courtiers surrounding the king, seeking an opportunity to whisper in his ear, or to guess which court faction will prevail in imposing its will on the royal government.

[LaCroix]

Dynastic considerations trump national concerns.

what's the evidence of this? the children's involvement or is there more?

[mongers]

In answer to the OP question it's starting to come into focus.  We've elected a king.

Every President has their kitchen cabinet but Trump takes it to the next level.  He has what can only be described as a court.  Milling around him at the throne room high in Trump Tower (or in his winter palace at Mar-a-lago) is a motley collection of high officials, ambitious office seekers, informal advisers, cronies, has-been politicians, and curious celebrities, all jockeying for the ear of the monarch, for access and for royal favor.  In the inner circle of course is the royal family itself: sons, daughters, children-in-law, and those who want to get to the king are well-advised to curry favor there first.  Would-be office holders are not vetted confidentiality and formally according to the traditions and standard procedures of our constitutional republic.  Rather they most present themselves publically to the court, to be paraded for the courtiers to admire or slander, as they desperately try to navigate through the intrigues and infighting of the royal entourage.  Sometimes men of great reputation receive office, to burnish the reputation of the king as a man who seeks wise counsel.  Other times, the great are humbled for the amusement of the masses, and other lesser sorts are given office.  Every court needs its jesters.

The king himself avoids sullying his royal person with mundane aspects of constitutional governance.  That is the kind of dangerous muck for courtiers to handle, so that he can always be able to blame any unpopular outcome on treacherous advisers.  Instead our monarch-elect conducts grand processions through the country where the simple people can come to do him homage and he may condescend to thank them.  In his spare time, he selects some unpopular merchant to intimidate (or collude with) so that he can present himself as the beneficient protector of his subjects.  On foreign matters, he says little of policy - instead preferring personal contacts with foreign potentates, typically in the company of his children.  Dynastic considerations trump national concerns.

On the great matters of the day, the king either says nothing or says something for everyone.  He is for the repeal of Obamacare, but also wants to preserve every part of it.  He is against the Iran treaty but perhaps will abide by it.  He will deport millions unless he won't.  He will or will not scrap the Paris agreement.  He is for "fair trade" which is not free trade except when it is.  Those who care about such things no longer bother to analyze his words.  They instead join the scrum of courtiers surrounding the king, seeking an opportunity to whisper in his ear, or to guess which court faction will prevail in imposing its will on the royal government.

Thanks for the interesting viewpoint JR.

Another one I found engaging was the parallel with 'Bill the Butcher' character from 'Gangs of New York' that Martin Scorsese suggested when pushed to describe Trump in a recent UK interview.

[The Minsky Moment]

what's the evidence of this?

Trump meets with US biggest ally in Asia.  State Dept not informed, no diplomat or country expert present.  Instead Flynn, Ivanka, and Ivanka's husbund.   And Ivanka's principal qualification for attending is that she was closing a licensing deal in Japan at the time.

Do the math.

[The Minsky Moment]

Another one I found engaging was the parallel with 'Bill the Butcher' character from 'Gangs of New York' that Martin Scorsese suggested when pushed to describe Trump in a recent UK interview.

That's Marty for you, always talking up his back catalog. 

[LaCroix]

that's not evidence, that's an assumption based on some facts, and the assumption wouldn't pass preponderance. ivanka probably has more than one deal going on in more than one country, and she's by far the closest to trump of his children. she also seems pretty savvy. it made sense to bring her along