Tag: White House

NOVANEWS By Lawrence Davidson Dysfunction There is something both horrifying and fascinating about the behaviour of President Donald Trump, as we watch him fail to cope with – or perhaps even recognise – the differences between the no-holds-barred world he created for his campaign and the much more polite and temperate world expected of leaders of a constitutional government. As a result, the present White House appears to be a dysfunctional place. Apparently neither Trump, nor most of his staff, have considered that there are real differences, different rules of behaviour, between private and public life. Maintaining the model of the abusive boss, the know-it-all chief executive (Trump’s preferred modus operandi), has, in quick order, proved both inappropriate and self-defeating. Her...