He's Basically Useless

 

Trump posted the above impotent whinge on his dreadful Truth Social account, and I suppose someone may have let Putin know about it and if they did, I am sure of one thing. 

Putin would have laughed his ass off.  It's pathetic. It reeks of frustration:

The exchange shined a light on a rising sense of exasperation among the president and his advisers at his inability to mount a successful pressure campaign against Putin to end the war. Trump bristled at a reporter’s suggestion that he had not applied pressure to the Russian leader.

“You don’t know what pressure I’m putting on Russia,” Trump snapped. “We’re putting a lot of pressure on Russia, and Russia knows that.”

Trump then argued that “it takes two to tango, and you have to have Ukraine want to make a deal, too.”

Moscow, he said, has already made a substantial concession by not “taking the whole country.”

“Stopping the war,” he said, is a “pretty big concession.”

Part of Trump's frustration may well be not knowing exactly what a "concession" is. It's possible he only recently abandoned that idea that it meant someone was selling hot dogs and sodas during the negotiations. When Trump says "You don't know what pressure I'm putting on Russia," though, I believe that part--it's just that Russia doesn't seem to be aware of it either. That's why THIS IS NOT WORKING.

You know who else isn't really impressed with Mr. Art of the Deal, lately? China. 

President Donald Trump late Wednesday said the world’s two largest economies are “actively” discussing trade issues.

Hours later, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Guo Jaikun contradicted Trump’s account, dismissing it as “fake news.” The two sides have not discussed tariffs, Guo said.

Soon afterward, Trump reaffirmed his view, telling reporters that representatives of the two countries had met as recently as Thursday morning. When asked to identify the representatives involved, Trump declined to say.

Was one of the representatives a large man who usually doesn't cry but in this particular instance--?  

Is it any wonder American are starting to lose confidence in the economy? Or that Trump's poll numbers are even lower than they were this time in his first term?

Fox News Chief political analyst Brit Hume said the president’s favorability was sinking under a legion of topics.

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Hume said the low numbers were “not really unexpected” because Trump’s overall approval rating is 44 percent, adding he personally felt the slump reflected the public's reaction to “a work in progress.”

“They haven’t got any trade deals yet. The tariffs are out there and people are worried about them and don’t like them. We don’t know how that’s going to play out. We don’t know how the foreign policy endeavors are going to pan out. We don’t have peace between Ukraine and Russia, which he promised There’s lot of work to be completed.”

The big question is--does Trump seem to have any plan to actually deliver on anything, or does he just seem to be floundering in denial, lying to himself and us? 

I know what it looks like to me. He's basically useless and lashes out unhelpfully, blaming everyone else for what he doesn't know how to do. And I really don't think it's ever been any different, it's just getting harder for him to hide.