So what's President-elect Donald Trump been up to?
One thing I noticed right away is a major shift in tone. With the exception of some loony tweets (claiming those folks demonstrating against his election are professional agitators set loose by corrupt media), Trump seems way subdued. Reminds me of the rant-less public statement following his meeting with the president of Mexico.
In an interview on Sixty Minutes, he seemed to be backing off his blood-thirsty campaign to get Hillary and Bill Clinton jailed for crimes against the nation. Now he says those guys are "good people" and he doesn't want to hurt them.
(But is this apparent new stance just a secret assignment delivered to the more rabid [and gun-toting] members of his core supporters? I don't want to hurt them, Trump says, but you fellas should feel free to go hog-wild.)
Trump also seems okay if some of his signature border Wall is represented by mere fencing. He knows parts of it will be a legitimate wall, and that's good enough for him.
Mexico, of course, will never consent to pay for something built in the US. That would be silly.
(Besides, it might enrage the drug cartels, by making more difficult the distribution of all that good stuff Americans clamor for so strenuously. Members of a government that ponied up the dough to build a wall might well become targets for murder and beheading. Or worse.)
Trump has also quieted down on his promise to eliminate and replace Obamacare. He seems now ready to make only a few modifications to the program, not engage in its wholesale destruction. Still no way to know if his version will be better and cheaper than the original, as he has often promised.
Trump even met with vocal enemies, like Mitt Romney. Happy handshakes and back slapping for the man who famously called Trump a phony and a conman.
Before that happened, Trump spent an hour and a half with Barack Obama, said he'd be willing to take advice from the man he once called the stupidest American president and the worse president this country has ever had. Can Trump really not remember his own words from just a few months ago?
Has the man been kidnapped by space aliens? Did those gray-skinned rascals go up his butt and hollow out his skull?
Obama recently pointed out that campaigning is different from governing. The two activities apparently draw on different talents and "strengths." Perhaps that explains Trump's shifting positions.
I guess we'll have to wait and see if The Donald has really become a different guy, and a president this country can survive. There are a lot of people anxious to get the answer, nervous folks from all over the world.
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