KHAYA SITHOLE: Elevated gossip and executive orders create the impossible conundrum
SA has to try engaging in diplomatic overtures with the US aimed at establishing an alignment between facts and hyperbole
Every day since his inauguration Donald Trump has ventured into new territory with a series of executive orders designed to usher in his vision for the US presidency. When he was a novice president in 2017, with little understanding of the political swamps and bureaucratic mirages of Washington, Trump found his agenda frustrated by the range of checks on his power that reduced him to something far less imperialistic than he had envisioned.
His approach then was to pronounce on a vision and then seek to find out who was responsible for executing on that mandate. Naturally, many of those in positions of authority were creatures of habit and protocol, and would embark on lengthy, lethargic processes that left a president who lacks the patience of old-school politics increasingly frustrated. ..
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