US president goes with his gut and the world goes along for the ride

“Instinctively, more than anything else,” he told reporters last week.

“You can hardly take a pencil to the paper, it is actually more an instinct than anything else.”

It was the last example of how Trump loves to keep everyone nervous for his next movement.

Trump has not only expanded the powers of the presidency by declare emergencies and crush political norms, but has avoided traditional deliberative procedures to make decisions. The result is that more of life throughout the country and the world are subject to desires, moods and complaints of the president who never.

“We have a Democratic leader who seems to have the authority to act as capriciously as a nineteenth -century European autocrat,” said Tim Naphtali, historian and senior research scholar of the University of Columbia.

“He sneezes and they all replace them.”

The White House rejects the criticism that Trump is exceeding his authority or incorrectly consolidating power. Administration officials often emphasize that the Republican president won a clear electoral victory and is now chasing the agenda in which he campaigned. From this point of view, resist their will, such as when the courts block their executive orders, is the true threat to democracy.

“He trusts President Trump,” said White House Press Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, while answering questions about economic policy.

“He knows what he is doing.”

The presidency has been accumulating power for years, long before Trump is running for a position, and it is not unusual for administrations to fade into several directors based on political and political priorities. But Trump’s new term has been different in the first months, and seems to recognize it.

“The second term is simply more powerful,” Trump marveled recently.

“When I say ‘do it’, they do.”

Although international trade offers the most extensive example of Trump’s inclination to act unilaterally since he returned to office in January, the same approach has been evident elsewhere.

He settled as president of the John F Kennedy center for performing arts to review the program in the main cultural institution of Washington. He issued an order to purge “inadequate ideology” of the museum network of the Smithsonian institution. He punished law firms associated with his opponents. He addressed the Department of Justice to investigate the former officials who crossed him during his first term.

When Trump decided to eliminate regulations on home water efficiency, he wants more water to flow in the showers, his executive order said that the normal period of public comments “is unnecessary because I am ordering repeal.”

“What the president ends is what he wants, which is everyone’s attention,” said Naphtali.

Trump’s ambitions extend beyond the United States, as their goal of Annexar Greenland. Vice President JD Vance visited the island last month to talk about its strategic location in the Arctic, where Russia and China want to expand their influence, but also their importance for Trump himself.

“We cannot ignore the president’s wishes,” Vance said.

Trump has spent decades trying to turn his impulses into reality, whether they are skyscrapers in Manhattan or Casinos in Atlantic City, New Jersey. He once sued a journalist for allegedly underestimating his net assets. During a statement, Trump said “up and down with markets and with attitudes and feelings, even my own feelings.”

A journalist’s lawyer seemed perplexed. “Did you say that your net assets rises and down depending on your own feelings?”

Trump said yes. “I would say that it is my general attitude at that time that the question can be asked.”

He took an approach similar to the White House for his first mandate. While talking about the economy with The Washington PostTrump said: “My instinct tells me more sometimes than what the brain of any other person can tell me.”

Leon Panetta, who was the Chief of Cabinet of the White House under Democratic President Bill Clinton and then served in the national security roles for Democratic President Barack Obama, said that there is normally a more deliberative process for critical issues.

“If you throw all that through the window and operate based on intestinal instincts, what you are doing is make each decision a great bet,” Panetta said.

“Because you have not done the task to really understand all the implications.”

“When toured given,” he added, “Sometimes the eyes of snakes will come.”

Because Trump does not have a clear process for making decisions, Panetta said that “that means everyone has to Kowtow for him because that is the only way he will have an impact.”

Trump seems to enjoy that aspect of the ongoing controversy over tariffs. During a republican dinner last week, he said that foreign leaders were “kissing my butt” to talk about their commercial agenda.

The saga began on April 2 when Trump declared that commercial deficits, when the United States buys more products from some countries than he sells, represented a national emergency, which allowed him to promulgate tariffs without the approval of the congress.

The stock market collapsed and then the bond market began to slide. On Wednesday, Trump backed his plans.

Although high taxes have been left in China imports, many of the other specific rates have stopped for 90 days to allow time for negotiations with individual countries.

“Americans should trust that process,” said Leavitt, press secretary.

Scott Lincicome, vice president of the General Economy of the Cato Conservative Institute, expressed concern that the course of international trade would become dependent on the “whims of a single type in the oval office.”

Lincicome said the White House timeline to reach commercial agreements was “not credible” given the complexity of problems. A more likely scenario, he said, is that the resulting agreements will be nothing more than “superficial noburgers” and Trump “will declare a great victory and all this is resolved.”

Peter Navarro, Trump’s commercial advisor, said in an interview with Fox Business Network that there is “a part of our White House and Night Work House” in the negotiations.

“We are going to run 90 offers in 90 days,” he said.