How can you grade POTUS Donnie’s joint session speech on a “curve” when the bar was set low for his firsts major speech to the nation? Joe I think you’re strangling that bromance in hopes of a POTUS booty call – PB/TK
‘Grading on a curve’: Morning Joe rates Trump ‘almost normal’ because he didn’t threaten to crush democracy – Travis Gettys March 1, 2017
A “Morning Joe” panel gave President Donald Trump high marks for his speech before Congress, but they tempered their praise with caution that governance requires hard work.
MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough opened the segment by defensively arguing that he wasn’t “normalizing anybody,” and he pointed out that former presidents Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan had still not found their footing at this point in their administrations.
Journalist Bob Woodward also reminded panelists they were only discussing words, and he urged them to continue watching Trump’s actions as president.
“The words matter and the tone matters, and if you try to pull back, the question mark is what is he really going to do?” Woodward said. “There are a series of policy issues, particularly in foreign relations — the Middle East, Russia, China, North Korea — what he is going to do with cybersecurity and so forth. Those are the things that are going to define his presidency, not words.”
Scarborough again returned to the normality of Trump and his presidency.
Continue to rawstory.com article: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/03/grading-on-a-curve-morning-joe-rates-trump-almost-normal-because-he-didnt-threaten-to-crush-democracy/
