It's Sunday

If you're a religious person, double down on prayers.

Yes. Yes, that's exactly what you think it is.

In early January, CBS News’ John Dickerson asked Donald Trump an excellent question. “When you think of the presidency – the day-to-day, not the show part – what is it going to be like?” the “Face the Nation” host asked the then-candidate. “What do you think about that, the operation?”

The Republican replied, “I don’t think about it.”

  MSNBC

He was running for a position he didn't think about. That was pretty obvious.

In an interview Tuesday with Capital Download, [Newt] Gingrich, a free-wheeling Trump adviser who is a vice-chairman of his transition team [...] said that Trump's biggest misstep in the three weeks since he won the White House was to post on Twitter Sunday a complaint asserting widespread voter fraud, and in an election he won. "In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide," Trump wrote, "I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally."

"The president of the United States can't randomly tweet without having somebody check it out," Gingrich told USA TODAY's weekly video newsmaker series. "It makes you wonder about whatever else he's doing."

[...]

"He should tweet, but he ought to have an editorial board in-between the first draft and sending it," he suggests — not an idea Trump seems likely to accept. "But he shouldn't give it up, and he shouldn't give up being Donald Trump. He got elected being this unique, charismatic, entrepreneurial guy who breaks lots of rules. ... If he starts getting to be normal, he'll cease being Donald J. Trump."

[...]

When he met with Trump last week, Gingrich says, "He commented, 'This is really a bigger job than I thought.'"

  USA Today

What I’m most curious about at this stage is whether or not Trump actually cares. We learned yesterday, for example, that Trump has decided to put his transition work on hold and will instead “begin a victory lap” with a political rally in Cincinnati tomorrow.[ed: this article was written 11/30.]

It’s reportedly part of a “tour” Trump is launching that will take him to a variety of other states.

In theory, Trump simply doesn’t have time for a multi-state tour. The amateur politician only has two months to prepare for the presidency, and he should be maintaining a grueling official schedule in advance of his inauguration in mid-January.

But that’s not fun. Trump doesn’t like rolling up his sleeves and tackling unglamorous tasks; Trump likes cameras and applause. The president-elect’s focus isn’t on work; it’s on being a celebrity superstar.

  MSNBC

But I'm pretty sure Dubya didn't do much work, either.

Donald Trump, a man who has a very short attention span and requires instant gratification more or less constantly, loves campaigning because he has a very short attention span and requires instant gratification more or less constantly. His strategy of doing lots of big rallies and not much else, though criticized throughout the campaign, was seemingly vindicated by his Electoral College win. And just as Trump has no intention of giving up control of his businesses, he has no intention of giving up his rallies either, maybe because he believes they are the key to his success and maybe because he is a petulant narcissist and maybe both.

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He has previously hinted that his campaign promises emerged from the effect that they had on the crowds, telling The New York Times editorial board, “You know, if it gets a little boring, if I see people starting to sort of, maybe thinking about leaving, I can sort of tell the audience, I just say, ‘We will build the wall!’ and they go nuts.” In order to please 10,000 people at a rally, Trump could inadvertently do any number of things—make new policies, sink markets, start a conflict abroad. This is why campaigning and governing are kept separate; merging them, as Trump plans to do, will be a disaster.

  New Republic

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.