Has Donald Trump read the job description?

[forgotmylogin]

I don't know why I have this stuck in my head. I'm sure Trump has to work at whatever he does, but with as impatient and brusque and random as he is, I get the feeling that he actually hasn't thought through what the job of being President actually entails on a day to day basis.

I suspect he believes he can get in there and run the country like a CEO at a table giving orders, then slam his briefcase and retire early for cocktails while other people carry out his whims. From the way Trump comes across, I don't get the idea he's going to adjust well to having twelve hours of his day micro-scheduled for him. Don't Presidents have to plan and schedule carefully their own leisure time? Despite the assistance they receive, being President is actual hard stressful work which he has no explicit experience at: he's never held elected office as a congressperson, mayor, student council or any other position that requires one to actually listen to people who disagree. Electing him to run the country would be like nominating a used-car salesman to preside over the American Association of Neurological Surgeons based on the fact that he's seen brain surgery on television.

I have this scenario in my head that if he gets elected, he'll quit before two years because he won't enjoy Presidenting, and doesn't have the integrity to actually stick it through. He'll turn in notice and go build a casino somewhere - hopefully before too much of the country is in ashes.

I am not sure this is a man who is used to hearing the word "no" ever.

[dchill]

1. I have a feeling that Presidential press conferences...

will become Trump Tantrums.

[Warpy]

2. He strikes me as the type who hasn't cracked a book since he got out of prep school

and paid other people to do his reading for him in college.

No, he hasn't read the job description. He thinks he's running for dictator.

[silvershadow]

3. 1. His command of a stage notwithstanding, his reading comprehension is probably not

the best. I get the feeling he doesn't actually read much. Two Corinthians told me that. 2. Trying to verbalize it to him won't work, because he doesn't listen. Two Corinthians told me that one, too. 3. He doesn't care. He is a narcissist of the first order. 4. He doesn't care. He is entitled to it, in his mind, in his own fucking way. 5. No one will tell him any different. He surrounds himself with the few "yes men" who can even stand to be around him.

[braddy]

4. Congress and the Senate and the bureaucrats, and the government agencies will chew him alive.

He thinks that he will be the big boss and just come in and control things, and it doesn't work that way.

[Egnever]

5. I think you misunderstand trumps motives

He doesn't want to win, never has. He is in it for the publicity.

A month or so back his campaign manager defected and admitted that is what he is going for. All indications are he will have pulled it off perfectly.

[Skittles]

7. you are so wrong

to be the most important person in America is his wet dream - he is an extreme narcissist

[Skittles]

6. "President of the United States" was all he needed to know

it's all about his ego - it always has been; everything else is of far lesser importance

[TeamPooka]

8. He thinks it's like winning one of his beauty pagents. nt

[tanyev]

9. And would he really divest himself of all his business interests?

He'd probably run Trump Inc. from the Oval Office and not see any problem with doing that. Even if he turned it over to his kids, he'd still be involved. Nothing like using the threat of American military might on Mexico or China to get a good discount on the suits and ties you manufacture there.

Now that I think about it, he'd probably be more likely to run the country from his New York office and keep living in his penthouse. I'm sure there's not nearly enough gilding in the White House for him to even consider living there.

[mnmoderatedem]

10. yes

he just thinks the description reads "emperor" not "president"

[wiggs]

11. Which scenario is most Trump-like: 1) slogging through a very expensive general election which

he will most likely lose and go back to work a loser having alienated 2/3 of the US, or.....

2) changing his style, persona, and content to appeal to the average American and becoming a different candidate, winning the hardest job in the world at which he then has to perform as that different person for at least four years to avoid failure and ridicule and deliver on impossible campaign promises, or....

3) getting to the convention having 'won' the GOP primary and having 'destroyed' the 17 other candidates, then complain that he's been treated badly, spent a lot of his own personal money, and isn't supported by the establishment.....and then QUIT. Take his ball and go home. Go out on top, causing the maximum amount of confusion, media exposure, and new history text. Forever remembered for his stunt. Weeks of pundit heads exploding.

I keep thinking #3. I keep thinking this wouldn't be all that bad for the GOP either...they would get to draft a nominee that couldn't win the primary but could win the general election. Trump wins, media wins, GOP wins. And again, Trump is in the driver's seat, calling the shots.

[UtahJosh]

12. A frightening assessment. nt

[wiggs]

13. How much would Adelson, the Kochs, Romney, and the GOP pay Trump to

drop out at the convention and let someone else run in the general? 50 million each? 100 million each? Could Trump actually USE HIS POSITION AS PRESUMPTIVE NOMINEE TO MAKE A CRAPLOAD OF MONEY? Wouldn't that be just like Trump? Isn't that what he does?

Is he in a position to demand whatever he wants??

[forgotmylogin]

14. #3 is really frightening!

And what a way to disenfranchise voters! Trump drops out, they stick Paul Ryan in there (who despite his politics after all this would be a refreshing change) without him even having had to spend a cent or travel an inch to campaign.

There's a #4 that got brought up on this board some time ago: Trump is actually a double agent who is purposefully wrecking the Republican side to get Hillary (and by proxy, Bill again) in there. If Trump hadn't got the nomination, he would have run Independent to split the votes away from Rubio or Cruz or whomever.

[sorefeet]

15. So, what if he did win and quit after 2

years and his vice president is Cruz or Newt??????