In theory, yes, but......

whambulance

You're welcome

Sarcasm. People are so into him (in a good and bad way) because he choses to occupy them exactly as they need. Rule no. 1 of media popularity. I gotta give it to him, despite disliking the whole circus, but it looks like he gets stuff done. Plus, nobody else made Putin nervous before, осторожно!

Oh I like that one!

This is the second time I notice, you actually claim Trump "chooses".

Yep. And if he did not matter to people they would choose to ignore him. Which they do not. Ignoring Trump is the only thing that could possibly slow him down, I think. He is feeding off controversy, and if he runs out of it he tweets for some more. It is not dumb, takes very little time/effort/cash. In the meantime he is doing his presidential stuff.

And now all of a sudden GWB is the good guy and people who used to compare him to Hitler are sharing his inspirational quotes on Facebook.

I predict that they will be quoting Trump as soon as he starts criticizing the next unpopular Republican to move into the White House.

We cannot ignore the Leader of the Free World, no matter whom it happens to be at any given time.

Will they look softly and nostalgically back, ponder over selftanners, tupee, biggly and Melanie's UK skirt?

I bet by the time the world gets over the extreme reaction to him, he will have some decent work to show. I think he is honest in that aspect. And nobody wants to give him Nobel prize. How did Obama get it, remind me?

The Free World is thankful to the EF patrol

Hell of a risky approach to build your popularity by acting like you've had a frontal lobotomy most of the time, though. Gone are the days when politicians at least tried to keep up a facade of competence, now the prize goes to the person that likes to convince the media he can't tie his own shoe laces or string a coherent sentence together.

#winning...

Of course he is

Naturally he can't be ignored. Guess ignoring a jumbo who's pilot has gone unconscious would be a good idea?

Like that Swiss guy Einstein said "Everything is relative"

Strange how Trump has somehow managed to set his model comparison to be with Obama!

Well, there are a couple of points.

He couldn't care less about people calling him names.

Out of all the people out there, he is pulling it all off. How do I know? Because he keeps doing it. It is steady and it is him. People wouldn't own up to voting him, just as people don't own up to slowly starting to trust him.

In all the hysterics that is out there, right now - he is the least panicky. And I think it makes people actually focus on progress, instead of obstructing him and sabotaging him.

People got busy with outrage and exhausted themselves. The collective and social aspect of it and group dynamics has toned down, the noise was tiring for everybody.

I never thought he was dumb. I dislike most of the schtick but it seems necessary?

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On the fake news topic;
A White House stenographer says she resigned over the Trump administration's lack of respect for her office and Trump's refusal to allow stenographers in the room for meetings and interviews with some journalists that crossed a line.

"Perhaps he didn’t fully understand the role of the stenographer. That would make sense, since his administration had rebuffed every invitation from the Obama transition team during an inherently stressful time, including to learn how to keep the lights on," she wrote.

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Have you actually noticed what he did with the real scary headless nuclear chickens: Kim and Putin? Or are you busy entertaining yourself with your vivid metaphor?

He is after the trade mainly but violence is always in the way of a good business.

OK, so lets take away all the noise from the media (or "fake news", as he prefers to refer to it), take away all the piss-taking online and here on EF. Pretend it doesn't happen. If you take away all of that and just view Trump as the man, do you honestly think he has achieved much?

Can you even make a list of what he has successfully achieved since he became president?

You make a lot of assumptions about what people are thinking and how they are perceived but there's not much substance and fact to your posting.

Do you know he doesn't care about being called names? The evidence would suggest otherwise but you seem to know better.

Is he really "pulling it off"?

He's pulling something, just don't think I can say what in mixed company.

It doesn't have to be that way, and I definitely hope things will normalize again and future presidents will exercise more decorum.

I don't at all like the thought of a spawn of Trump wannabees, thinking they can do what he did by copying his style. But alas I think we may see a phase of that. But that will pass.

At worst he's a fool, and at best he's a super genius tactically pretending to be a fool. and in all probability he's somewhere on a sliding scale between the two. That scale doesn't have a Hitler point. People need to see some perspective here.

Yup.

Plus his aura appears to be making Europe great again too!