The most amazing thing about the early weeks of President Trump’s second term is the speed and the range with which he’s doing things, whether it is forcing the country of Colombia to take Colombians back to here illegally, or it is interacting with federal employees, requiring them to come back to work in the office. Or it is a whole series of steps that involve illegal immigration. Again and again, you’re seeing a speed and a direction, the whole effort to take on, for example, the whole notion of whether or not we should have transgender operations before you’re 19, whether transgender people should be in the Defense Department, there’s just a lot of things going on simultaneously across the board, and I think you’re going to see that continue now. Part of this means, of course, that there are going to be mistakes made. It’s absolutely inevitable. You can’t do this many different things and get all of it right, but in a sense, President Trump is a lot like other entrepreneurs. He believes in doing something, learning from it. If it doesn’t quite work, change it, keep moving forward. It’s very different than the corporate structure or the bureaucratic structure, where you spend months and months planning, you theoretically have the right solution, you hope it works, and then it’s very hard to change because you’ve invested so much in it that you can’t turn around and do something different. The Trump models have a general direction, to know where he wants to go in general, and then to push and he will very often overstate things in order to set up a negotiating circumstance so that people are coming towards him, he’s not having to go towards them. And you’ll see this happen again and again. It was also very revealing that he went and spent over an hour and a half with the House Republican conference in Miami. It tells you something that was held at a Trump golf course, and he was actually speaking to them in the Donald J Trump ballroom, but he was making a key point. He knows he can’t get the biggest parts of his agenda into permanent law without the Congress, and he knows that as many things as he can sign his executive orders, they can be turned around by the next president, but if you can get him into law, who has a much better chance of them surviving and shaping America’s future, and to get them into law, he needs the absolute support of the House Republicans, and he needs the help that he’s going to have to have from the Senate Republicans. So I thought it was very significant that he took the kind of time he did, talked as thoroughly as he did. And there were some very revealing moments. One was a long conversation about tariffs. He may have been the first American president in general in a century to talk about President McKinley, and McKinley had been the author of a tariffs act in the 1890s it was the base of his campaign in 1896 and he advocated that if we had higher tariffs, we’d have better industry, our workers would be paid more and for almost 100 years, that was the model that had made America great. Trump got it. He’s learned it, and I think it’s important how much time he spent on it, so we’ll keep reporting and watching, but a lot’s going to be happening. I.
Trump moves at breakneck speed to enact bold changes
By Straight Arrow News
President Donald Trump has been in office for less than three weeks, but he’s already making his mark on Washington at an unprecedented pace. He is boldly reshaping the federal government in ways that have excited some of his supporters but which experts warn are illegal, dangerous and unconstitutional. He also recently met with House Republicans at one of his golf clubs in Florida to plan how to push his agenda forward through Congress.
Watch the video above as Straight Arrow News contributor Newt Gingrich explains why Trump is moving so fast on policy and why he thinks working with Congress is the right move, comparing Trump’s leadership style to that of an entrepreneur rather than a traditional government leader.
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The following is an excerpt from the above video:
He knows he can’t get the biggest parts of his agenda into permanent law without the Congress, and he knows that as many things as he can sign [with] his executive orders, they can be turned around by the next president, but if you can get him into law, you have a much better chance of them surviving and shaping America’s future. And to get them into law, he needs the absolute support of the House Republicans, and he needs the help that he’s going to have to have from the Senate Republicans.
So I thought it was very significant that he took the kind of time he did, talked as thoroughly as he did. And there were some very revealing moments. One was a long conversation about tariffs. He may have been the first American president in general in a century to talk about President McKinley, and McKinley had been the author of a tariffs act in the 1890s. It was the base of his campaign in 1896, and he advocated that if we had higher tariffs, we’d have better industry, our workers would be paid more, and for almost 100 years that was the model that had made America great.
Trump got it. He’s learned it, and I think it’s important how much time he spent on it, so we’ll keep reporting and watching, but a lot’s going to be happening.
The most amazing thing about the early weeks of President Trump’s second term is the speed and the range with which he’s doing things, whether it is forcing the country of Colombia to take Colombians back to here illegally, or it is interacting with federal employees, requiring them to come back to work in the office. Or it is a whole series of steps that involve illegal immigration. Again and again, you’re seeing a speed and a direction, the whole effort to take on, for example, the whole notion of whether or not we should have transgender operations before you’re 19, whether transgender people should be in the Defense Department, there’s just a lot of things going on simultaneously across the board, and I think you’re going to see that continue now. Part of this means, of course, that there are going to be mistakes made. It’s absolutely inevitable. You can’t do this many different things and get all of it right, but in a sense, President Trump is a lot like other entrepreneurs. He believes in doing something, learning from it. If it doesn’t quite work, change it, keep moving forward. It’s very different than the corporate structure or the bureaucratic structure, where you spend months and months planning, you theoretically have the right solution, you hope it works, and then it’s very hard to change because you’ve invested so much in it that you can’t turn around and do something different. The Trump models have a general direction, to know where he wants to go in general, and then to push and he will very often overstate things in order to set up a negotiating circumstance so that people are coming towards him, he’s not having to go towards them. And you’ll see this happen again and again. It was also very revealing that he went and spent over an hour and a half with the House Republican conference in Miami. It tells you something that was held at a Trump golf course, and he was actually speaking to them in the Donald J Trump ballroom, but he was making a key point. He knows he can’t get the biggest parts of his agenda into permanent law without the Congress, and he knows that as many things as he can sign his executive orders, they can be turned around by the next president, but if you can get him into law, who has a much better chance of them surviving and shaping America’s future, and to get them into law, he needs the absolute support of the House Republicans, and he needs the help that he’s going to have to have from the Senate Republicans. So I thought it was very significant that he took the kind of time he did, talked as thoroughly as he did. And there were some very revealing moments. One was a long conversation about tariffs. He may have been the first American president in general in a century to talk about President McKinley, and McKinley had been the author of a tariffs act in the 1890s it was the base of his campaign in 1896 and he advocated that if we had higher tariffs, we’d have better industry, our workers would be paid more and for almost 100 years, that was the model that had made America great. Trump got it. He’s learned it, and I think it’s important how much time he spent on it, so we’ll keep reporting and watching, but a lot’s going to be happening. I.
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