Opinions by their very nature are biased. The opinion they presented was mostly a hit job on Trump.
And...that magazine is noted for being very unbiased. It's merely YOUR opinion–which has already proven to be blindly biased in favor of Trump–that the op/ed is biased. In point of fact, they very deftly eviscerated Trump's actions and inactions...he's not draining the swamp, he's simply repopulating it in his likeness...he's not repealing/replacing Obamacare, he's moving on to tax reform–which has been made harder now. He's had two attempts to ban muslims rebuked. He's pissed off friends and enemies alike yet still loves Putin in spite of all evidence that Putin is out to get us. The only thing he's done is go EO-happy by signing a bunch of stuff to do and/or undo that he's unlikely to have read or understood...
See, the sad thing is, if somebody actually tells the truth about Trump and what's he's doing, it's a hit job by the unfair lying media...uh, no, The Economist just point out what a failure his first 70 days in office has been.
If that's a hit job, then by your standard, there can be no reporting of what Trump says or does won't be a hit job...
DONALD TRUMP won the White House on the promise that government is easy. Unlike his Democratic opponent, whose career had been devoted to politics, Mr Trump stood as a businessman who could Get Things Done. Enough voters decided that boasting, mocking, lying and grabbing women were secondary. Some Trump fans even saw them as the credentials of an authentic, swamp-draining saviour.
After 70 days in office, however, Mr Trump is stuck in the sand. A health-care bill promised as one of his “first acts” suffered a humiliating collapse in the—Republican-controlled—Congress (see Lexington). His repeated attempts to draft curbs on travel to America from some Muslim countries are being blocked by the courts. And suspicions that his campaign collaborated with Russia have cost him his national security adviser and look likely to dog his administration (see article). Voters are not impressed. No other president so early in his first term has suffered such low approval ratings.
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The nature of political power is different, too. As owner and CEO of his business, Mr Trump had absolute control. The constitution sets out to block would-be autocrats. Where Mr Trump has acted appropriately—as with his nomination of a principled, conservative jurist to fill a Supreme Court vacancy—he deserves to prevail. But when the courts question the legality of his travel order they are only doing their job. Likewise, the Republican failure to muster a majority over health-care reflects not just divisions between the party’s moderates and hardliners, but also the defects of a bill that, by the end, would have led to worse protection, or none, for tens of millions of Americans without saving taxpayers much money.
Far from taking Washington by storm, America’s CEO is out of his depth. The art of political compromise is new to him. He blurs his own interests and the interests of the nation. The scrutiny of office grates. He chafes under the limitations of being the most powerful man in the world. You have only to follow his incontinent stream of tweets to grasp Mr Trump’s paranoia and vanity: the press lies about him; the election result fraudulently omitted millions of votes for him; the intelligence services are disloyal; his predecessor tapped his phones. It’s neither pretty nor presidential.
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The character question
The Americans who voted for Mr Trump either overlooked his bombast, or they saw in him a tycoon with the self-belief to transform Washington. Although this presidency is still young, that already seems an error of judgment. His policies, from health-care reform to immigration, have been poor—they do not even pass the narrow test that they benefit Trump voters. Most worrying for America and the world is how fast the businessman in the Oval Office is proving unfit for the job.
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Naw...actually, it's a pretty well articulated assessment of Trump's incompetence so far...
Hit job?
Not so much...the truth hurts don't it?
