I like the article purported by Bloomberg and would say it is the same benchmark I've always used to judged the WH. Technically, that's how I judge every system.
Trumpers argued that we should give him time to run the country like he should, the first time we elected a businessman to run the country, and hence, we should give him time.
Firstly, this is not the first time a businessman became a president, so why is this presidency any different from before? Because he had no prior experience? Why should that be different from anyone who are new to a job? CEOs are judged almost immediately for lesser blunders, so time is no excuse. Mindset, maturity and integrity is.
Now, I'll not hit him on things that are not wrong. I disagree on the travel ban, appointment of Sessions, rolling back of Obama-era laws to protect the environment, support of the poorly designed AHCA and immigration related policies.
However, I am not going to bash him for the Syrian strike, even if I don't view it as a positive, it is not a dire negative. Nor do I think the interactions with China to be negative. Happenings with NAFTA also did not look as dire as it was originally projected to be.
The problem is, when your accomplishments do not outweigh your perceived negatives, coupled with the constant self-inflicted PR problems, things clearly don't look good. Not to mention how reality is setting in with their non-WH business. No CEO in a legitimate corporate would have survived this long with so much conflict of interest, especially since his name is not Elon Musk.
The good thing is, unlike a corporate where the leader is the single point of failure, the president is one of many pieces of our democracy. He is a very big part of our democracy, but NOT THE point of failure that will collapse the system.
Of course, being highly invested in the market, I worry about every piece of news that is thrown out, every day there is a curve ball that can break the camel's back, every day seems to be a lower new low. Of course, the best thing that happened recently is the appointment of Mueller, of which, of course again, Trump doesn't understand the benefit.
All in all, if I have stock in a company where it's CEO keeps giving me news that causes selloffs, I would have either sold the stock or lobbied to fire the CEO. That is what is happening right now. I don't believe there is enough to prove Russian ties, nor clear-cut proof wrongdoing with Comey, but it is reasonable to be doubtful, especially with the massive amount of possible conflict of interest business wise and confusion operation and execution wise. There will be haters, but you are not helping yourself if you give them more reason to gather more hate.
Now, if only he can start exercising proper judgment now in terms of appointments and decision making, perhaps he can salvage it. I still stand by my prediction, he can be a good president, but that will be either because he abandons a lot of his campaign promises (becoming more centrists) or that he is so bad he will become a "good" precedent of a lot of future changes to prevent political extremism in the future. In my mind, if he can push for presidential election rule changes (or democratizing) and institute term limits on congress, it could really change my opinion.
p.s. I actually think that recent events have been good for the country, perhaps not Trump specifically. Not for our health exactly but if we survive this and learn from the mistakes, we can enhance the country's stability and success for the future.
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