• Perhaps Trump is well-suited to be president. He has overseen bankruptcies, after all.
• We speak of office holders growing into their jobs. Is Barack Obama shrinking into his? Mr. Cool has been showing signs recently of self-pity. “I miss being anonymous,” he told Hearst executives. “I miss Saturday morning, rolling out of bed, not shaving, getting into my car with my girls . . .” (We miss you doing all those things too, Mr. President.) He has also shown signs of ire. After an interview with Brad Watson, anchor of WFAA-TV in Dallas, he snapped, “Let me finish my answers the next time we do an interview, all right?” Now, let us stipulate that the pressures of the modern presidency are crazy-making; that no one, not even former vice presidents, has any true idea of them beforehand; that even happy warriors like Reagan, Ike, and FDR sometimes misspoke. How much harder it must be, then, for a tyro lofted by his youth and freshness?
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