'Donald Trump embraces the self-flattering moniker of 'wartime President,' while displaying little of the steadfastness linked to successful crisis leadership,' CNN's JohnJHarwood writes. | Analysis
Again and again, Trump wobbles under pressure from seesawing stock values and poll numbers, criticism and praise, media scrutiny and phone chats with friends. He embraces the self-flattering moniker of"wartime President," while displaying little of the steadfastness linked to successful crisis leadership. "He's just so unsteady," observes presidential historian Robert Dallek, whose subjects have included Franklin Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon.
He takes comfort from Wall Street run-ups and scrambles after reversals.Adopting a newly grave public mien two weeks ago as he declared a national emergency, Trump savored his discovery that"people actually liked it." But last week, having backed tough social distancing guidelines prescribed by health officials, Trump buckled before dire economic forecasts. "WE CANNOT LET THE CURE BE WORSE THAN THE PROBLEM ITSELF," the President tweeted.
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