And his foreign policy is a mess. Almost every day Trump says something that irritates foreign leaders. On February 14th, speaking with Israeli PM Netanyahu, Trump appeared to back away from five decades of US foreign policy and abandon "the two-state solution."
8. Trump doesn't care about other Republicans. Not surprisingly, for someone whose instincts are not collaborative, Trump doesn't work well with other Republicans. He doesn't consult Vice President Pence. He doesn't consult his Cabinet members. And he doesn't doesn't consult the Republican congressional leaders.
Come 2018, it's hard to imagine Trump campaigning for any Republican running for reelection.
9. Trump is in the process of losing his base. The latest Pew Research poll finds that only 39 percent of respondents approved of the job Trump is doing. Those that do approve of Trump are "White, non-college-educated" (57 percent). But how long will they approve of Trump when he doesn't deliver jobs, takes away their healthcare, and fails to build "the wall"?
10. Trump has "phenomenal" conflicts of interest. An under-reported story is Trump's violation of the Constitution's conflict-of-interest clause ("emoluments"). Writing in the New York Review, ACLU legal director David Cole describes the lawsuit brought by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics: "never before in American history has a president-elect presented more conflict of interest questions and foreign entanglements than Donald Trump... Our forty-fifth president has deliberately chosen to undermine the interests of the people he represents in order to further the interests of the one person he cares about most."
One month of Trump. How many more will Americans have to endure?
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