A perfect quote to understand the Trump presidency | Analysis by CillizzaCNN
Washington "This guy thinks he's CEO of America and it's a family-owned company. He doesn't have to answer to anybody."
That's Maine Sen. Angus King on Donald Trump during an interview on CNN's"New Day" on Tuesday. And, man, did the Mainer nail it.Trump runs his White House -- and the broader government -- much in the same way he ran his eponymous company. He has surrounded himself with a small inner circle filled with a combination of family members and people willing to tell him he is always right.
In each episode of his weekly YouTube show, Chris Cillizza will delve a little deeper into the surreal world of politics. Click to subscribe! Trump, more so than any other modern president, has reshaped the norms governing what a president can -- and should -- do with the power conveyed by the office. He has, among other things, sought to discredit the idea of an independent media, devalued the idea of truth, threatened to close the US's southern border, said that there was blame on both sides for white supremacist violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, attacked a cable TV host for her alleged facelift and on and on and on.
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