Wonder How Obama Feels When His Pet Media Outlets Are Calling The Obamacare Rollout A Failure

Why don't liberals treat Trump with honor?

If I were to meet Mr. Trump, especially if he came to my job or if I were in the uniform I wear when I volunteer I would treat him with the utmost courtesy as I would any President. I’d render him a salute and treat him with all the dignity and respect that his office deserves. He’s my President.With that being said I’m a citizen. As a citizen outside of a professional context he’s just another politician and he’s going to get criticized for the hypocrite and bully he is, not to mention for his poorly thought out, bigoted and selfish policies and the fact that he’s basically a slob I wouldn’t leave alone with any woman I know. I also would be deeply disappointed if my son grew up to be like him.Still, you respect the office, not the man. The man you deal with at the ballot box and with the full exercise of the First Amendment. The office you honor and respect. I think most of the “liberals” I know understand that distinction.As for treating him with honor I ask that you also keep in mind how disrespectful he was to his predecessor. He treated Mr. Obama in a very offensive manner and was deliberately insulting every chance he got.Mr. Obama was by far one of the most decent, intelligent and honorable people to have that office in my lifetime and I’ve been around since Eisenhower. As a person he, along with Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and Mr. Eisenhower were true gentlemen. They were people who kept their word and served their country to the best of their abilities. They came from both parties. You can disagree with them of course, but you could trust them.Mr. Obama inspired me as a husband and father too. You can think he had some bad ideas and bad policies but if my son grew up to be as good as him I’d be very happy. He was a good example to all our youth. Study, work hard, be good to your wife, respect your elders and keep neat and your back straight and raise your kids to do the same. That was Obama. Mr. Trump has done none of these things. He’s a bad example.Mr. Trump doesn’t belong in the same room with any of those men I mentioned earlier, but the voters made a choice. I respect that choice, but as I said before, I am a citizen. I will act as one.

How did Donald Trump do in his press conference on 2/16/17?

I’ll try to be polite and first say that as a fairly progressive Democrat living in liberal Massachusetts, I’m not the target demographic for whatever it is that Trump is trying to sell.President Truman famously put a sign on his desk in the Oval Office saying “The buck stops here”. It should be no surprise to anyone who has looked into Trump’s history that he doesn’t share that viewpoint. For Trump, everything that goes wrong - and a heck of a lot has gone wrong in his first month - is someone else’s fault.Trump’s firing of General Flynn is not explained - Trump claims Flynn didn’t do anything wrong - but is blamed on “fake news”The disastrous rollout of the Muslim Ban is somehow not Trump’s fault - he wanted to delay it, but somehow someone persuaded him to rush it out - and then it hit reality in the form of unanimous decisions by several judges in several states, but Trump views it as a bad decision by an out-of-control court.A respectful question fishing for a condemnation of anti-Semitic bomb threats is met with hostility and bluster and an unsupported assertion that left-wing groups are faking it.An often-repeated and easily-debunked claim that Trump’s narrow win was the biggest EV majority since Reagan was quickly shot down, and all Trump could say was that someone else had given him the information. So there we have it - anything coming out of Trump’s mouth may be completely and obviously false, and he doesn’t care (and I fully expect he’ll repeat the lie at his weekend rally).Trump claims that he wants to have friendly relations with Russia, but that the US media have increased tensions by reporting on the Flynn affair and contacts between the Trump campaign and Russia, making it politically risky for Trump to compromise with Russia.OK, that’s as much of being polite as I can stand. Trump is a dangerous lunatic presiding over a disintegrating White House apparently riddled with people who can’t hold a security clearance, unqualified ideologues, and nobody who knows how to get anything done in Washington. The blood is in the water, the press can taste it and they’re hungry to rip him apart. He’s got less of a Cabinet than he had 2 weeks ago, nobody sane wants to join his circus, and his main links to the establishment, Priebus and Pence, must be in panic mode today.And Trump thinks everything is running like a “finely-tuned machine”.WTF???