The Toddler in Chief

The Toddler in Chief
Author :
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 283
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780226714257
ISBN-13 : 022671425X
Rating : 4/5 (25X Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Toddler in Chief by : Daniel W. Drezner

Download or read book The Toddler in Chief written by Daniel W. Drezner and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-03-25 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “It may be cold comfort in this chaotic era, but Americans should know that there are adults in the room. . . . And we are trying to do what’s right even when Donald Trump won’t.”—An anonymous senior administrative official in an op-ed published in a New York Times op-ed, September 5, 2018 Every president faces criticism and caricature. Donald Trump, however, is unique in that he is routinely characterized in ways more suitable for a toddler. What’s more, it is not just Democrats, pundits, or protestors who compare the president to a child; Trump’s staffers, subordinates, and allies on Capitol Hill also describe Trump like a small, badly behaved preschooler. In April 2017, Daniel W. Drezner began curating every example he could find of a Trump ally describing the president like a toddler. So far, he’s collected more than one thousand tweets—a rate of more than one a day. In The Toddler-in-Chief, Drezner draws on these examples to take readers through the different dimensions of Trump’s infantile behavior, from temper tantrums to poor impulse control to the possibility that the President has had too much screen time. How much damage can really be done by a giant man-baby? Quite a lot, Drezner argues, due to the winnowing away of presidential checks and balances over the past fifty years. In these pages, Drezner follows his theme—the specific ways in which sharing some of the traits of a toddler makes a person ill-suited to the presidency—to show the lasting, deleterious impact the Trump administration will have on American foreign policy and democracy. The “adults in the room” may not be able to rein in Trump’s toddler-like behavior, but, with the 2020 election fast approaching, the American people can think about whether they want the most powerful office turned into a poorly run political day care facility. Drezner exhorts us to elect a commander-in-chief, not a toddler-in-chief. And along the way, he shows how we must rethink the terrifying powers we have given the presidency.


The Toddler in Chief Related Books

A Promised Land
Language: en
Pages: 801
Authors: Barack Obama
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-08-13 - Publisher: Random House

GET EBOOK

A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making—from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSEL
The Toddler in Chief
Language: en
Pages: 283
Authors: Daniel W. Drezner
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-03-25 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

GET EBOOK

“It may be cold comfort in this chaotic era, but Americans should know that there are adults in the room. . . . And we are trying to do what’s right even wh
You Can't Spell America Without Me
Language: en
Pages: 258
Authors: Alec Baldwin
Categories: Humor
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-11-07 - Publisher: Penguin

GET EBOOK

Political satire as deeper truth: Donald Trump’s presidential memoir, as recorded by two world-renowned Trump scholars, and experts on greatness generally "I
The Wit and Wisdom of Donald J. Trump
Language: en
Pages: 108
Authors: Mark Lynch
Categories: Humor
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-09-24 - Publisher:

GET EBOOK

When Donald Trump speaks and tweets, the world holds its breath. He vents his spleen at anything and anyone at anytime. His use of social media to message his i
The Rhetorical Presidency
Language: en
Pages: 264
Authors: Jeffrey K. Tulis
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-11-07 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

GET EBOOK

Modern presidents regularly appeal over the heads of Congress to the people at large to generate support for public policies. The Rhetorical Presidency makes th