Low-Energy Trump - The president doesn't have the same strength and vigor he used to.

A fter this week’s set of briefings at the White House, the Donald Trump presidency looks like it may end not with a bang, but with a whimper. First Chris Wallace from Fox and then Jonathan Swan from Axios eviscerated Trump in interviews that not only exposed how unprepared Trump is for the long-interview format, but how unfamiliar and unrelatable he remains to facts.
He literally does not appear to understand them.

Lately he can barely muster the get-up-and-go to turn the page on the briefing notes that he pretty obviously hasn’t looked at before lumbering to the podium. Instead of selling his version of reality with a huckster’s showmanship, he’s like a chagrined schoolboy trying to fib his way through the report on a book he didn’t read.

He’s losing. He knows it. And in his mortal terror, the only place where he can still muster bravado is Twitter. But Trump isn’t showing much energy any more in public. When NPR’s Tamara Keith asked him last week why he had canceled a Tuesday meeting with pharmaceutical representatives Trump seemed to be unaware he had done so. He said the meeting wasn’t set in stone and he’d meet with them the following day. But that was impossible because he was heading out of town. This wasn’t a “gotcha” question. It was the sort of basic question about scheduling that could be dealt with by anyone who is engaged in their own work. But Trump couldn’t handle it.

Trump’s desire to act as his own press secretary, his inability to understand facts or cobble together a coherent policy on any issue, and his penchant for surrounding himself with a combination of young, eager sycophants and incompetent aging sycophants has sapped him of his strength.

How fitting that his final weeks as president have seen the emergence of Low Energy Trump.

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